T. Greer ✓
@Scholars_Stage · Virginia · joined 30 Mar 2009
Long takes on 🇨🇳 politics, 🇺🇸 conservatism, and books I find interesting
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This is part of a Chinese strategy” is not a compelling reason not to do it.
Remember: the Chinese strategy might be stupid.
Many of their strategies are.
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the question isn’t really “do the Chinese think they benefit from this?” but “how much they actually benefit, and is that benefit larger than ours?”
Jackie clearly believes that they benefit disproportionately —but it is not clear to me that this is actually true.
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@Scholars_Stage America gains far more from firsthand China exposure than any surveillance risk
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I question this view: “[sending US students to China] allows them to surveil and shape some of the Americans they're most interested in surveilling and shaping”
This is true but just how much does it matter? If we have to weigh the risks and balances of sending future China
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I think we can agree on the importance of talking about not only our aspirations but also the organizations and strategy for academic exchanges at work on the CCP side. They want us there for their own reasons. They write about those reasons, along with the metrics and groups
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I want to go on the record and establish a few things:
First, Dean has just unquestionably been a force for good in humanity’s broader project to grapple with the intelligence transition. I’m hard-pressed to think of one individual who has thought more comprehensively about the
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A few I might list below. I am intentionally excluding books that would be obvious candidates for something like East Asian Great books (e.g. Dream of the Red Chamber) and are only not included in the western canon because of its parochialism:
THE SAGA OF BURNT NJAL
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Listen, here is what Trump needs to do. He needs to visit some of the largest proposed data sites. Most of these are in red areas anyway--like the Stratos mega project in northern Utah.
He needs to hold a rally there. And in the middle of the rally he is going to bring out Kevin
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"Science did not respond by banning every word associated with intention. It learned to separate functional explanations from psychological ones."
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What are some books that you consider great that are not canonical Great Books?
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“LLMs are just matrices. Stop anthropomorphizing.”
Bacteria are just biochemistry. Yet they cooperate, communicate, build structures and sacrifice themselves.
Reducing a system to its substrate doesn’t make its higher-level behavior disappear. https://t.co/rODLmRFs2q
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From my commonplace book:
28. Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible (1920):
"Moral people are the most revengeful of mankind, they employ their morality as the best and most subtle weapon of vengeance... they want the condemnation to be universal and supreme." https://t.co/wMWCr
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From my commonplace book
26. Francis Bacon, from "Of Married and Single Life" (1625):
"He that hath wife and children have given hostages to fortune...." https://t.co/9CAaMgTMMY
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24. From my commonplace book:
Emily Dickinson (1862), "Of Bronze and Blaze:"
"And Unconcern so sovereign
To Universe, or me—
Infects my simple spirit
With Taints of Majesty—" https://t.co/q5wwnR2mO8
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23. From my commonplace book:
The Decapitation of Di Shan--an episode in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian (1st century BC): https://t.co/HbFVX6s772
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22. From William Golding, Lord of the Flies (1954):
"He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet." https://t.co/udO3YxTgH0
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From my commonplace book:
21. A traditional bushman myth, as retold in Carol Adams 1990 book The Sexual Politics of Meat: https://t.co/4meDU8uLqX
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From my commonplace book:
20. McCarthy, "All Traces of the Destruction of the People Would Be Erased," written c. 1986, El Paso, Texas: https://t.co/HQJjkEhCKw
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From my commonplace book:
19. Wotton, "Dazl'd Thus With Hight of Place," written c. 1615-1620: https://t.co/KRpzjG7i8t
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From my commonplace book:
18. Kierkegaard, Either/Or, vol II, p. 19:
"So [our] whole age is at once comic and tragic—tragic because it is perishing, comic because it goes on." https://t.co/MmW75JNyYr
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From my commonplace book:
17. Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate, pp. 47-48:
"This mysterious turning-point: a gallant, intelligent ‘We’ becomes a frail, timid ‘I’,’". https://t.co/ASUcDqS5Ov
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From my commonplace book:
16. Wei Liaozi, ch. 10 (trans. Ralph Sawyer):
"Astate that is about to perish enriches only its own granaries and storehouses." https://t.co/3BpfsoCEe3
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From my commonplace book:
15. From Frederich Hayek, "The Intellectuals and Socialism," 1949:
"Orthodoxy of any kind... is the one view which of necessity antagonizes all intellectuals." https://t.co/vYNN8see2p
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From my commonplace book:
14. 2 Nephi 2:14-16
"Things to act and things to be acted upon..." https://t.co/2DDbzPANjN
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From my commonplace book: two contrasting views.
13. Emily Dickinson, "To Fight Aloud is Very Brave;"
Charles Lamb, excerpt from "Popular Fallacies," The Essays of Elia and Eliana, p.256. https://t.co/DCzuHNZWcQ
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From my commonplace book.
12. All is Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene I:
"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky
Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull
Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull." https://t.co/oVhM2iumM4
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From my commonplace book:
11. Francis Bacon, "Of Empire," 1625:
Why do "Princes many times make themselves desires, and set their hearts upon toys?"
Because: "The mind of man is more cheered and refreshed by profiting in small things, than by standing at a stay in great." htt
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From my commonplace book:
10. W.B. Yeats, ""Solomon and the Witch”:
"Oh, Solomon! Let us try again." https://t.co/KgqAFT1GEo
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From my commonplace book.
9. John Alcock's Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach, pp. 50-51: https://t.co/vO1aIFcMUV
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From my commonplace book.
8. Arendt, "Responsibility Under Dictatorship," 18.
“Who am I to judge?” actually means “We're all alike, equally bad, and those who try, or pretend that they try, to remain halfway decent are either saints or hypocrites..." https://t.co/Bn3UL3CaZl
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Rispetto ad account della stessa dimensione
11 post degli ultimi 90 giorni, accanto alla fascia di 10K–100K follower. arriva a molti, ma pochi di loro reagiscono.
Visualizzazioni mediane10 087questo account924mediana per 10K–100K
Copertura, %18.76%questo account3.62%mediana per 10K–100K
Interazione, %0.59%questo account1.52%mediana per 10K–100K
| Metrica | Questo account | Mediana per 10K–100K | Rapporto |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visualizzazioni mediane per post | 10 087 | 924 | 10.9× |
| Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower) | 18.76% | 3.62% | 5.18× |
| Tasso di interazione | 0.59% | 1.52% | 0.39× |
Altri account di questa fascia → Confronta con un altro account → Come sono costruiti questi parametri →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
2.6K24 Jul
4.4K29 Jul
1K24 Feb
40.7K31 Aug
44.8K
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156K
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42.2K2 Sep
2.5K24 Sep
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.23%24 Jul
0.22%29 Jul
1.10%24 Feb
0.26%31 Aug
0.59%
0.84%
1.36%
1.18%
0.28%2 Sep
0.36%24 Sep
0.52%
0.00%
0.60%
1.77%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes70.3%2 700 in total
Reposts4.7%181 in total
Replies7.5%289 in total
Quotes1.7%67 in total
Bookmarks15.7%603 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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