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Alas, the obligatory response piece by Conor Friedersdorf is now paywalled.

A few interesting things have happened since 2015. Have a seat, let's get you up to speed...

"The worst day of your life so far"

"You'd be surprised."

There used to be one (https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Houston_Stoics/), but it appears to be defunct. If you create an group on Meetup you might get interest.

So 6?

I pretty much minored in poli-sci, so I think I get this stuff.

Scumlord reveals why he's so scummy: "It's because of the scum."

To halve and halve not

Singapore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_Aziz

One of his top advisors was a Chaldean Christian.

Relevant links:

• Brief announcement from Parking Reform Network: https://parkingreform.org/donald-shoup/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Shoup

• His book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking

• YouTube version of episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sgmw3jQcyc

Thank you!

You're right, especially about Nahuatl (since the comment was about non-European languages), and could have mentioned pretty much any language that has a romanized script. Chinese pinyin has plenty of examples.

Interestingly, the model first generates the correct answer and then wipes it, replacing it with a "sorry, that's beyond my current scope" message. I asked it questions like "What caused the Great Chinese Famine?" and "How and why did the role of the Chinese Communist Party evolve between 1988 and 1991?"

An optional language filter is the solution to that particular problem.

A foreign company can't be in China. They have to hire a Chinese company to run the business in China.

Wholly foreign-owned enterprises have been allowed in at least some industries since 1986.

Sages hate this one weird trick!

Great post, thank you. I think you are right to cite CBT and secular religion as important channels. And the importance of social media to things like Stoicon and Holiday/Ferriss cannot be overstated.

Some additional channels to consider are:

• Academia: Interest in Stoicism among Anglophone philosophers began to pick up as part of a larger wave of interest in virtue ethics, starting in 1958 or so with Anscombe and continuing with Foot, MacIntyre, and others. Accompanying this was a rise in attention to Hellenistic philosophy more generally. Long & Sedley's great compendium was published in 1987. In the 1990s we got Hadot, first in French and then English. This was soon followed in 1998 by Lawrence Becker's foundational A New Stoicism. Martha Nussbaum wrote, and continues to write, important books applying Greek thought, including Stoicism but not uncritically, to modern American society. Cambridge Companion to the Stoics was published in 2003, and Margaret Graver's brilliant Stoicism and Emotion came out in 2007. (This was all preceded by a revival of interest in Stoic logic, such as by C.S. Peirce and Benson Mates, but I don't think it "escaped the lab" into popular discourse.)

• Military (especially US) interest in Stoicism received a huge boost from Stockdale's writings and lectures. Nancy Sherman has also documented the importance of Stoicism in the military, though note the distinction between Stoicism and stoicism is not always clear in that case. /u/aahjink has made a similar point.

• Early Internet: The Stoic Registry was founded in 1996!

You are other people's "other people." --Russ Roberts

No one who speaks German could be an evil man.

Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.