9k:RD/ lightbulbs don't work (Q31,60)

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Extraordinary events must have happened
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Extraordinary events are unlikely
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Unicorns are incredible
/ Something with no way of existing existing is more impressive than something that can easily exist (Douglas Gasking) / (9k)
A Marxism that exists is more perfect / A Marxism that exists is more perfect than a Marxism that doesn't / actually existing socialism (motif that a Marxism which has been realized to any degree is better than a Marxism which has not been realized) / (9k) -> in Stalin's Marxism [modern] the concept of "Bolshevism existing" or "Communism working" is equated with a physical workers' state itself.
A Marxism that exists is more perfect -> in Trotskyism, "Marxism existing" is equated with parties actually understanding Marxism regardless of whether a physical "people's republic" exists, and not simply settling for a crimson materialism that doesn't contain dialectical materialism; Marxism is more "perfect" when it exists, but if blatant liquidators exist Marxism does not exist, or to be more precise, it shortly ceases to exist in a temporal process of collapse.

Communism is more effective than AGI / Bolshevism is more effective than artificial general intelligence in that the Material System of Bolshevism has been realized at least once, but machine learning has never physically realized a computer implementing artificial general intelligence
AGI is as effective as Trotskyism / Machine learning is just as effective as Trotskyism in that machine learning never produces artificial general intelligence and Trotskyism never produces a durable "orange" uniquely-Trotskyist dictatorship-of-the-proletariat

versioning Communist Internationals like software packages
/ (9k) -> I came up with this idea not-too-seriously but it's actually surprisingly close to the kind of thing that really is useful. if you take all the Marxist movements that have ever happened and line them up by which ones they came out of and whether they got closer to or farther from success... well, you start understanding exactly where to look to stop movements from breaking down.

it's bizarrely like planning a tool-assisted speedrun or something. you have a particular "obstacle course" to get through which always has a few things about it that are similar, and you find the errors, and you figure out a more consistent route through.