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#74 | 2025-11-03 16:43:45 UTC
The European Faith
StJohn Piano

- Man needs a faith. - (Which do you practice ?) - I practice Christianity. - Jesus is the right man to follow. - The worlds that flow from following Marx, Mohammed, Mammon, or Moloch ... are wastelands. Nothing grows there. - The world that we live in grew from Christianity. - Atheists still believe in Christian morality. They do not really want to live in a world without it. They would mostly not survive. - Am I a good Christian ? No. - Do I believe as a Christian should ? No. - Do I try to believe ? Yes. Sometimes. - And sometimes it seems as though it could be real. Sometimes God is sitting on a bench nearby, just outside the frame. - Is it the correct faith to try to believe ? For a European, yes. - But be as wise as a serpent. A man is hated most for his weaknesses. - A man should read the Greeks, Schmitt, the Buddhists, Sun Tzu, etc. Truth emerges from the tension of opposites. - Which rituals should you teach your children ? Correct action, communion, penance, forgiveness.

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#54 | 2025-08-26 07:07:47 UTC
A new core mechanic: Validation
Sam Gödel-Conway
1 validation
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The current meta for social platforms selects for platforms that optimize for emotional engagement. The core mechanic is "reaction", as reified in likes, shares, comments. Posts are simply the raw material. Reaction is what keeps people coming back. Humans have a powerful anxiety-driven need to perceive the social currents - "what are other people saying about X ?" (what should my opinion be ?) Reaction maintains regular engagement, which allows the business of adverts to exist. I propose a new core mechanic: Validation. A person's social profile would showcase the posts that they have validated - verifiable record of what they judged to be true / insightful / useful. The value proposition: That this profile would increase the user's professional reputation. The overall result: The platform produces few posts, but each post supports a cloud of confirmations. Highly-validated posts are then republished on existing platforms, with the validators featured alongside the author.

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