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AI and the true nature of technological progress
LLMs are cotton spinning, not space travel, and the 20th-century idea of progress was an anomaly.
 • Will Solfiac
Modern folk beliefs V: “Your ancestors had kids in their teens”
How marriage and family structure really differed across the world in history
 • Will Solfiac
Notes on China’s alternative modernity
Mostly impressive, sometimes eerie
 • Will Solfiac
Why are black people so overrepresented in advertising?
Sarah Pochin, diversity as blackness, and the taboo around honest discussion of asymmetrical multiculturalism
 • Will Solfiac
Adolescence: a manosphere morality tale
A show so heavy-handed it makes me want to start talking about 'regime propaganda'.
 • Will Solfiac
On the Folk Beliefs of the Upper Normie: “National identity is just about citizenship”
Where the illusory idea of purely civic nationalism came from, and how it became conventional wisdom.
 • Will Solfiac
The Politics of Clarkson's Farm
From blokeish Top Gear Clarkson to Tory / Lib Dem 'Lovely Britain'
 • Will Solfiac
Against the ‘ethnic food festival’ conception of culture
The roots of this idea in social status positioning and in Scott Alexander's idea of universal culture
 • Will Solfiac
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
 • Will Solfiac
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
 • Will Solfiac
What’s the matter with women?
Perhaps they should be more like men
 • Will Solfiac
Imagining a respectability cascade on immigration in Britain
"It's just respectable, common sense..."
 • Will Solfiac
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