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We Were Soldiers Once … And Young

By Ben Hunt | October 13, 2018 | 38 Comments
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…the Outgroup, particularly in light of ET’s Things Fall Apart. MrMoneyMustache.com – a call for radical departures from the typical lifestyle, and finding what makes one happy. Disguised (openly) as…

The Zeitgeist – 3.14.2019

By Ben Hunt | March 14, 2019 | 15 Comments
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…not a list of best articles or articles we think are most interesting … often far from it. But for whatever reason these are articles that are representative of some sort of chord that has been struck in Narrative-world. The Good and the Bad of Stanford’s Massively Successful Startup…

Inception

By Ben Hunt | April 14, 2020 | 15 Comments
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…empathy. The Golden Rule is the only law of the Pack. The Golden Rule IS the Full Hearts of Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose. The Golden Rule is the…

Inside the Skinner Box

By Rusty Guinn | December 3, 2018 | 8 Comments
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Ben and I are what you might call old school gamers, by which I mean that we were rabid fans of video games, and PC gaming in particular, back when…

The End of History and the Triumph of Fiat World

By Ben Hunt | February 21, 2024 | 25 Comments
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…‘data’ to support The Long Now where the Inner Party is always right. Generative AI in the City of Man IS the Outer Party. Generative AI is ALL the Winstons, who in my vision…

The Intellectual Rot of the Industrially Necessary University

By Ben Hunt | January 23, 2024 | 59 Comments
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…to support. Exactly like Claudine Gay, Johann Tetzel was a catalyst for fundamental change in the University Church. Martin Luther (1483-1546) On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther sent a long…

The Long Now, Pt. 3 – Wink

By Ben Hunt | October 17, 2019 | 13 Comments
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…Part 1: Tick-Tock Part 2: Make, Protect, Teach Part 3: Wink Part 4: Snip! That’s me on the left, giving Luca a pat on the head. That’s Neb Tnuh on…

What’s Your Metagame? An Open Letter to the Crypto Community

By Ben Hunt | November 23, 2018 | 21 Comments
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…the Epsilon Theory website. You can enter the rabbit hole from pretty much any point, but the “Things Fall Apart” series is a particularly good place to  start. In any…

ET Live – 1.15.2019

By Rusty Guinn | January 15, 2019 | 3 Comments
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…say in Maine, “You can’t get there from here.” And Just in…Apparently, the FBI, and not the CIA, are the real government…the coup is ongoing. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-11/fortnite-skins-are-key-to-the-future-of-global-tradehttp:// https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/01/green-new-deal-stuff-fantasyland.html https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/01/httpswwwcnncom20190114politicstrump-fbi-debate-investigationindexhtml.html ***PS…Maybe we…

I’m a Superstitious Man

By Ben Hunt | August 13, 2019 | 9 Comments
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…What does a movement of refusal and disengagement look like? Start here … https://www.epsilontheory.com/things-fall-apart-part-3-politics/ And then go here … https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-long-now-pt-1/ The Second Foundation hides in plain sight. PDF Download (Paid…

Nudging State, Noble Lies

By Ben Hunt | August 4, 2021 | 29 Comments
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…credible private parties to engage in counterspeech. (5) Government might engage in informal communication with such parties, encouraging them to help. Each instrument has a distinctive set of potential effects,…

Language is a Virus: Mike Pence edition

By Ben Hunt | August 11, 2023 | 61 Comments
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…agreed or disagreed with me, but in the linguistic patterns used in the replies. Here, let’s start with my Democrat-leaning friends. Words of therapy have infected blue tribe brains. How…

Breaking News #5: Voldemort 2024! The Biden/Trump Rematch No One Wants

By Harper Hunt | September 28, 2023 | 10 Comments
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…also look at the political strategy used by incumbents and how they attempt to stave off upstart candidates by altering the system itself. Epsilon Theory · Breaking News #5: Voldemort…

Afghanistan and the Common Knowledge Game

By Ben Hunt | August 23, 2021 | 43 Comments
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…on what everyone knows that everyone knows. We’ve written about the Common Knowledge Game a lot in Epsilon Theory, starting in the original “Manifesto” and continuing with notes like “A Game…

Pricing Power (pt. 3) – Government Collaboration

By Ben Hunt | February 24, 2019 | 12 Comments
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…to protect your margins and maintain pricing power is to partner with the government to provide a politically useful service. I don’t mean an overt partnership. I don’t mean becoming…

A Tale of Two Cults

By Rusty Guinn | November 2, 2020 | 46 Comments
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…Amen Carl_Richards Interesting article, lots of ET words used. https://www.wsj.com/articles/charles-koch-says-his-partisanship-was-a-mistake-11605286893 Rusty Guinn Definitely interesting. I admire several things that the Kochs have done. I think Ben would have a bone…

What Do We Need To Be True?

By Rusty Guinn | April 6, 2021 | 44 Comments
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…we need to be true. So what do we mean by the things we need to be true? Let us start from the anecdotal and specific, and then pull back…

Invisible Threads: Matrix Edition

By Ben Hunt | September 9, 2020 | 9 Comments
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…lot of smart guys (and even smarter machines) into the fray. And it can work for a long time, particularly so long as the majority of market participants and their…

They’re Not Even Pretending Anymore

By Ben Hunt | February 27, 2019 | 5 Comments
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…of the previous boom, start respecting money by charging less and working harder, you can start to have inflation, and the ‘improved’ qualities of the work force will help minimize…

The Industrially Necessary Doctor Tedros

By Ben Hunt | February 16, 2020 | 11 Comments
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pretty much next to nothing about the origins of the virus is part of the fiat news we are fed daily. Clear eyes, full heart, can’t get infected…I hope… cartoox…