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Right Is The New Left | Slate Star Codex

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[Content warning: some ideas that might make you feel anxious about your political beliefs. Epistemic status: very speculative and not necessarily endorsed. This post is less something I will defend to the death and more a form of self-therapy.] I. Let’s explain fashion using cellular automata. This isn’t going to be cringe-inducingly nerdy at all! We’ll start with a one-dimensional vertical “world” a single cell thick and however many cells we want tall. Cells can be in one of two states, “black” or “white”. We start with the top cell “black” and all the other cells white, and the world changes with granular time (“ticks”) according to the following rules: 1. On each tick, a cell tries to be the same color that the cell above it was last tick. 2. On each tick, a cell tries NOT to be the same color that the cell below it was last tick. 3. If they ever conflict, Rule 1 takes precedence over Rule 2. 4. If none of these rules apply, a cell stays as it is. Here’s what we get with a world f

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