Progressives might reach into leftist territory, but certainly not communist. Progressives are the target of much ridicule by far-left-wingers. They tend to have absolutely no clue about the ideas underlying leftism, they just have a few specific policies they want enacted that happen to match some of the things leftists advocate, but usually for different reasons. Progressives still usually subscribe to the western ideals of Representative Democracy and Capitalism.
There's a whole subculture called survivalism (or prepping) [1] dedicated to that kind of thing. You may want to look that up.
You also may be interested in the article "Doomsday planning for less crazy folk". [2] It has been previously discussed on HN [3], and it's also been expanded into a book titled "Practical Doomsday". [4]
I'm personally advocating for tighter border controls. It has the immediate effect of helping with stagnating real wages, and might also help with the contingent problem of climate migrants.
Not really. That "arc of history" line is just propaganda. Twitter did play a roll in these changes. Whether these were towards "justice" or not depends on your viewpoint, of course.
To make an example of my point, how could the American Revolution start in 1765 without Twitter? Something else did play a roll and was good enough. That revolution even succeeded.
Thousands of other data points scattered all along human history, successful or not.
Despite all the ridiculous headlines, he's not "killing" Twitter. He's using it to drive a different kind of social change: a shift to the right.
That's something a lot of journalists dislike, hence all the attacks and hit pieces on him.
Note how the headline of even this very article is misleading: using the word "wipe" to suggest that the data was destroyed, as in wiping a hard drive, while that's not the case.
There also exists a working direct download link which I can’t post because the Danish Rights Alliance is following me around DMCA’ing anything to that effect. They already struck my Twitter once.
But, BitTorrent is probably the only way a dataset like this can survive now. It’s a damn shame since OpenAI are the ones making money, and researchers are simply trying to replicate their scientific efforts.
By the way, you can use aria2c to download just the books3 part of that torrent. Use aria2c —-select-file=44 and pass the torrent url. Takes about 30 minutes. Plus most people probably don’t have 800GB free.
I agree. Hobbits [1] generally care and know less about politics. Perhaps in an ideal world, like the Shire, that would be the way to live.
> Liberals are conservative;
I agree with you that the common usage of the word "liberal" is inappropriate, and would be more than happy to reclaim the word.
I disagree with you about using the word "progressive" instead though, as its just a euphemism for "left-winger" (or "communist"). [2]
[1]: https://americanmind.org/salvo/beyond-elves-and-hobbits/
[2]: https://www.city-journal.org/article/progressive-unh-unh