Good link, thanks.

The commenter totally missed what a shock the executions of Charles I and Louis XVI were. The natural reaction to "if the king is bad just kill him" is for the king to more or less aggressively remove threats to their persons.

Putin is lucky that Needy Amin's stupid attack on Iran pushed his invasion of Ukraine down to the 2nd most idiotic military adventure so far in the 21st century.

Look, before that, he had a decent hand. Russia was a 2nd or 3rd rate power, but no-one knew it, because the shiny armed forces were just seen on parades. He was getting a decent chunk of cash from fossil fuels, Russia was a good place to do shady business in , and he and his freidns could stash all that money in UK and US banks and send their kids to university there. Every alt-right party could count on some rubles getting sent to them.

So he wasn't Peter the Great, but he wasn't some boyar losing battles with the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth either.

In 6 or 12 months, Zelensky would be brought down by a combination of corruption and or shitty economy, and some Russia-friendly oligarch would use Russian disinfo to get elected and tie Ukraine even closer to Russia. But he just couldn't stand that somewhere there were Ukraine kids getting an education in Ukrainian and where the Holodomor was part of the curriculum.

This is part 2 in a serious of posts by Habryka. The first has this tagline:

Epistemic status: All of the western canon must eventually be re-invented in a LessWrong post. So today we are re-inventing federalism.

(the 3rd is entitled, I kid you not, Vladimir Putin's CEV is probably not that bad)

All 3 are almost impenetrably jargon-y.

HEre's an El Reg piece about doing something similar for low-income UK homes

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/thermify_heathub_raspberry_pi/

Stop-AI terrorists: Eliezer Yudkowsky told us to bomb the datacenters.

Yudkowsky: no no no, I said we needed airstrikes to hit the datacenters

IRGC: I gotchu fam Cheap Drones Complicate the Gulf’s AI Boom

(edit reworded comment around link to attempt to make it funnier)

BTW what kind of site is Naked Capitalism? I've heard of it but never read it before .

That shift suggests Virginians now consider data centers almost as undesirable as nuclear power plants,

bah! Virginian voters need to read more LessWrong, where the benefits of both are explained beneath impenetrable layers of posts.

Also this evisceration of Zvi:

As for his argument regarding political violence, I’d point him toward John Locke, Nelson Mandela, Franz Fanon, or Walter Benjamin, but what’s the point, none of them printed their arguments on Magic: The Gathering cards.

That would also imply that Tallinn is collecting tax deductions for giving to a charity whose greatest single expense is repaying money he lent them.

This is both so evil and so genius I am surprised it's not a very common tax-planning layup for other very rich people.

If you don’t build any datacenters, Yud won’t have to bomb them.

Tennesee(!) leads the way, a bill to make training chatbots a Class A felony.

Hope they get the fullthroated support of LW

Reddit /r/artificial freaks out (no clue what alignment that subreddit has): https://old.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1slu23a/red_alert_tennessee_is_about_to_make_building/

via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784650

edit aww the coward lawmakers have backed down https://www.wjhl.com/news/tennessee-backs-off-sweeping-artificial-intelligence-limits-opts-for-study-instead/

Yeah both non-violence and pure terrorism are communication forms at the root. I remember reading long ago that the Rote Armee Fraktion's master plan was:

1. commit horrific acts of violence against pillars of the community / rob banks to get money
2. said acts would unleash a repressive wave of violence from the state
3. the proletariat would see this repressive wave, wake up, and cause the revolution

It kinda stopped at stage 2, because the BRD's security services were a bit less ex-Nazi than they expected, and also there was basically no proletariat.

Also the Southern police chief who correctly deduced that mass arrests were what the civil rights activists wanted, got the go-ahead from neighboring county jails, and then politely and non-violently arrested everyone protesting and spread them out over a wider area, thus preventing the media-friendly repression that was the goal.