Systems analyst at the intersection of political theology, hard power, and education. Auditing the software stacks enclosing human agency.
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Daniel Forrester Nash retweeted
Orwell's great observation in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was that to shrink a person's vocabulary is to shrink his capacity to think.
An impoverished version of English removes the mental tools needed to formulate and communicate complex (and dissenting) ideas. Such is the deep, complex relationship between language and thought.
We don't read "difficult books" to say that we've read difficult books. We read them because they expand the boundaries of what we are capable of thinking and feeling — we ascend to their level. Vocabulary helps us to recognize truths otherwise beyond our grasp.
This revelation is worse than you may think. This must be reversed.
I am speechless. Thomas Aquinas College just dropped a study on the rigor of the new SAT.
It compares the 1980/87 test with 2026. The findings should terrify every parent and teacher...
Vocabulary has collapsed.
Old SAT: 70.6% of questions tested vocab.
New SAT: 15%.
The old test forced students to know a wide range of words through analogies, antonyms, and sentence completions. The new test abandoned that. Most vocab questions now just ask students to fill in one blank from context.
Reading passages also got radically shorter (average ~97 words vs 300–340).
The new test uses short expository passages and hands you the necessary background knowledge inside the text. The older tests leaned much more heavily on argumentative and persuasive writing, assumed far more historical, scientific, and cultural knowledge, and penalized students who lacked it.
This is a redefinition of what "college readiness" means.
If you believe that kids should develop rigorous vocabulary, be capable of sustained reading, and possess background knowledge, I have bad news for you. The SAT no longer measures these.
If you want a future where children can actually read difficult texts and construct complex arguments, the SAT must be replaced now.
This cannot go on.
Daniel Forrester Nash retweeted
100%. They can't see you scrolling TT at the same time that you're expecting them to read a paperback book. Modeling behavior is underrated.
Daniel Forrester Nash retweeted
The prospect of a kid starting in front of an Alpha AI terminal at age 5 and not exiting the HAA screen wrapper until 21 should give any serious educator pause.
Replacing human relational formation and deep intellectual friction with metric speed-running and dopamine optimization isn't redesigning college. It's institutionalizing hyper-monitored telemetry across an entire upbringing.
Daniel Forrester Nash retweeted
Running a Nietzsche handle only to indulge in pure moralizing resentment and universal outrage is a fascinating choice. If you want to actually parse what was said during the lectures specifically on how the antichrist operates, I broke down night 3 here: danielforresternash.substack…
Daniel Forrester Nash retweeted
At his third Antichrist lecture in Nashville, Peter Thiel talks about the International Criminal Court (ICC), Israel, the United States, and the Iran War.
He describes the ICC as part of the emerging ideological architecture of the Antichrist, likening language on the ICC's website to the antichristic talk of peace and safety in 1 Thessalonians.
Thiel notes that the ICC's arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant have limited where they can travel. The ICC warrant meant Netanyahu couldn't visit Poland on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp; though Poland's president said he wouldn't enforce it, Poland's authority to defy the ICC wasn't clear, and so the Israeli PM didn't come.
While condemning what he describes as the neoconservatives and George W. Bush people—we "made a lot of mistakes in the Middle East wars," and "you're not supposed to torture people"—Thiel says the ICC was already emerging as an issue under that administration, citing a 2003 memo from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on what he called the judicialization of international politics.
The investor interprets former VP Dick Cheney's condemnation of Trump as an effort to buy favor with the ICC, "probably too late." He says he's come to suspect that the threat of an ICC warrant is a sword of Damocles over the Trump administration amid the Iran War. Thiel describes himself as skeptical of that war, saying it is possible the US will lose the soft power war before outlining a mildly esoteric interpretation of US policy on the ICC.
Thiel says that, on the surface, Secretary of State Marco Rubio's condemnation of the ICC might look like a favor to Israel. In his reading, though, it could be a means of protecting Rubio or War Secretary Pete Hegseth from potential future warrants that could be enforced by a left-wing president.
Discussing what he characterizes as middle modernity's (ca. 19th cent.) waning faith in the individual, Peter Thiel draws attention to Thomas Carlyle's "On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History."
Even as Carlyle oriented his history around what he saw as great men, he warned that they were endangered.
Thiel observes that, although Carlyle's list of great men included everyone from Mohammad to Cromwell to Napoleon—Napoleon marking the last of the modern era to Carlyle—Christ was "conspicuously absent." This prompts the speculation that Carlyle's book was an antichristic manifesto in disguise.
Thiel notes that Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French in 1804 in the presence of Pope Pius VII—something he describes as an antichristic parody of Charlemagne's coronation as Emperor of the Romans in 800 by Pope Leo III.
Daniel Forrester Nash retweeted
Universal access to information doesn't not yield universal comprehension. Information abundance simply shifts the bottleneck from availability to synthesis. It accelerates cognitive bifurcation: a cognitive elite capable of high-level sense making and a mass majority drowning in ambient noise.
Nashville's been a blast.
Daniel Forrester Nash retweeted
Precisely. The entire political theological diagnostic hinges on this escape velocity. Without AGI forcing decentralization the default state is administrative reconsolidating/ the Antichrist model of managed stagnation to prevent Armageddon. AGI isn't just tech. It's the narrow pass out of the false binary.
Daniel Forrester Nash retweeted
Missing the point of why Musk fell silent. The story isn't a debate about values. It's a lesson in velocity. Musk's space exit relies on physical manufacturing in the world of atoms which moves linearly. Hassabis pointed out that digital super intelligence moves exponentially. You cannot physically escape a system that scales faster than your rockets.
Daniel Forrester Nash retweeted
MIT gets it.
“MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.”
