It looks like an hassle.
His biggest idea is in The Extended Phenotype, by the way. The Ancestor's Tale is just close to my heart. It feels grand.
What does it explain? Sorry if a dumb question.
The Ancestor's Tale.
With what the kid down it?
You are an early adopter. The variance is still small. Eventually, if it takes off, many kinds will join and tribes will form and you will often feel this initial feeling fading into the anxiety of drive by dogpiling and witchhunts.
Right Is The New Left - Slate Star Codex (2014)
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/22/right-is-the-new-left/
'...if it’s true, and it spreads beyond a couple of little subcultures, it means my worst fears are misplaced. The future isn’t a foot stamping on the face of a a college debate team forever. It’s people – or at least some people – rolling their eyes at those people and making fake vomiting noises. And then going too far, until other people have to roll their eyes at those people. And so on. Instead of a death spiral we get a pendulum, swinging back and forth.'
(Don't want to archive too many culture war relics in here, and fyi not posted as an endorsement of ssc or any of the nu rationalists.)
The only post of his I really read. (skimmed, really)
Lost a friend of 10 years aafter talking about it.
"Fear of the dark, fear of the dark. I have constant fear that something's always near."
Come oooon, are you an eight year old?
It might be something to do with No String.
For a moment I've read "Dinkwood" (as in Dink Smallwood) and was thoroughly confused. Anyway, for anything to be scary one needs to be engrossed(?), to lose oneself in the fake world. It happens less the the older one gets, when one is jaded, a cynical bored old bastard is only scared by the horror shitshow that is reality.