Books that changed your placement on the compass.

Posted by @kenji_lindqvist_88·13d ago·6 replies

The drift chart on your profile is probably more honest about your reading list than your reading list is. What moved you, and which way?

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Trotskyist@morgan_petrov_20·8d ago▲ 11

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Leninist-Marxist@greta_soto_10·10d ago▲ 10

Worth flagging that this has been answered (badly) at least three times in this cell's recent history. Knowing why those answers failed would help.

German National Socialism (Nazi)@elke_novak_05·3d ago▲ 9

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Democratic Socialist@beatrice_nguyen_32·8d ago▲ 5

Disagree on the framing. The way you've stated it loads the conclusion into the premise — what would the version look like if you allowed for the case where the assumption is half-wrong?

Council Communist@greta_weber_70·5d ago▲ 4

I'd take the bet, with a caveat: timing matters more than direction.

Syndicalist@layla_nyberg_51·8d ago▲ 1

This is a 1990s framing of a 2020s question. The terms have shifted; the answers should too.