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The Slice of Life Mindset
Consider a slice-of-life anime and what it chooses to romanticize. Commuting to work, preparing a meal, reading a book, drinking some tea, watching a movie. The characters are typically unambitious, the opposite of a shonen character who sacrifices everyth... posted 3d ago with 2 replies 11 11

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Yes. I do a few different things that help turn boring moments into extraordinary ones. One is to notice and thank God for everything. The small bird perched on a branch, the sun peaking over rooftops, or a nice drive in the car. It doesn't matter how ever... 5h ago 2 2

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Imperium
Has anyone here read F.P. Yockey's Imperium? If so, do you think it is possible to overcome cultural distortion in the current state of affairs and establish a pan-Western Empire? What do you think the world would look like in such a case? posted 2d ago with 10 replies 5 5

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This would suggest that the distorters had their hand in french politics quite early, starting with the wars by Louis XIV and finishing in the american war of independence. Another explanation would be that due to several wars waged by the France state its... 7h ago 2 2

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Intelligent Use of LLMs
I would like to start a thread to share the methods we employ to use LLMs in a way that enhances our abilities, rather than just lazily outsources tasks to them. The heuristic for the techniques I am looking for would be if after employing the technique, a... posted 23h ago with 1 reply 4 4

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Mostly I use LLMs (claude) for fairly constrained code-drafting, in which it implicitly looks up all the specifics of how to call this or that and threads the pieces together. It's basically like stackoverflow for your particular problem. This only works f... 8h ago 2 2

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America isn't going to become Brazil. It already is Brazil.
According to the 2020 census, the United States was 57.8% non-Hispanic white. ... posted 2d ago with 3 replies 10 10

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I wrote quite a lengthy reply and then accidentally deleted it. FML. I'm not rewriting that at 5 am. ... 18h ago 4 4

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Sub 1.6 TFR = 50% less people in 3 generations. What now?
Marko’s thread I linked put the fertility rate problem into a very clear perspective. If society doesn’t course correct, there won’t be that many people in the future. South Korea will be around 4% of its current population within 3 generations. ... posted 3d ago with 8 replies 10 10

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I suppose the crux here is not the cause or even what action must be taken, but the likelihood of real change. ... 25h ago 5 5

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Revision Demoscene, Oscilloscope Music
I've followed the demoscene for a while, and this is in a class of its own. The image is produced by using the left audio channel to control the beam on the X axis, and the right audio channel to control the beam on the Y axis. ... posted 2d ago with 1 reply 7 7

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Yeah I've seen this stuff before. I remember the one with the mushroom. This is definitely getting much better. I wonder where it will go. I wonder if it will at some point be basically "solved" with the ability to pair arbitrary video with arbitrary audio... 2d ago 4 4

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Luther on Retroactive Prayer — Can you pray for someone in the past?
I was thinking about praying backwards in time when I was praying that something that had already happened, but that I didn’t know the outcome of. I think it was someone else’s driving test. ... posted 7d ago with 4 replies 11 11

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FWIW, the Catholic idea of prayers for the dead is that it is only applicable to souls in purgatory, i.e., souls of those who died in a state of grace, and so are destined for heaven, but are still in need of spiritual purgation. The prayers help to facili... 3d ago 2 2

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What if the extended human phenotype is natural and convergent?
Samo Burja's thesis is that civilization is part of the "extended human phenotype", as dam building is in the beaver's phenotype, and older than we think. In this model, properly savage hunter-gatherers are either more associated with nearby civilization t... posted 2w ago with 9 replies 13 13

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This conversation reminds me of an article (author I can't recall) defining four alien intelligences: ... 3d ago 4 4

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Just how alien would the space-octopus be?
It's hard to say what a true alien species would be like. But octopi are pretty alien, and we know a bit about them. One of you doubted that a space-octopus from alpha centauri would be much like us. So here is a xenohumanist thought experiment: SETI has i... posted 2w ago with 5 replies 9 9

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intelligent super-ants make a good thought experiment. Let's add the standard set of capabilities: language, learned culture, tool use, fire, reflection, etc. Note these are just capabilities, not values or arbitrary architectural narrowings, but they are ... 5d ago 7 7

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Improved compose UI features
The new post compose ui (for new threads and for replies to posts) has some improvements today: ... posted 7d ago with 6 replies 11 11

Improved compose UI 11 11

I guess we're going to have to build our own newsletter at some point here. Basically there should be an option on the account page to add an email subscription that notifies you of new posts, or best posts weekly, or something like that. Also DMs. When we... 6d ago 3 3

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A Hidden Gem
One of the reasons I am posting here is to discover some hidden gems that cannot be found easily elsewhere on the web. ... posted 13mo ago with 8 replies 25 25

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"Hidden Gems" — Rare(-ish) Books list below seems possibly relevant ... 6d ago 0 0

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Accelerationism
Has anyone read a lot of materials on Accelerationism that wants to have a good discussion on pros and cons of this theory? posted 3mo ago with 23 replies 10 10

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Tieing it back to the topic in OP, energy rate density is closely related to a lot of the thermodynamics that are used and abused by accelerationists. In many ways that Chaisson article I shared is accelerationist through and through. And on a personal lev... 7d ago 5 5

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Matching for anonymous private messages now works
We've been talking about this one for far too long, but now finally it's here: you can dm with other anons. Right now the only way to dm is to get matched by liking/following each other's nyms. This is neat but not as useful as it could be. We're also goin... posted 1w ago with 6 replies 14 14

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Yeah its a bit awkward still. “Follow” is probably the wrong concept, the UI needs an overhaul, and i’m going to add other features that clarify things and reduce need to run around “following” people (eg manual dm requests). Anonymous social net... 7d ago 5 5

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AI 2027 (ai-2027.com) posted 3w ago with 12 replies 16 16

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This story is clearly in the fast takeoff regime. The essential difference between fast and slow takeoff is, 'is the takeoff happening faster than the rate of cultural development'. ... 8d ago 8 8

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Should You Hide Your Power Level?
It's common in radical chan-derived internet circles to speak of "hiding your power level", meaning not letting the normies know just how much anime you watch, or just how nuanced your opinions of Hitler are. Its a sort of necessity to keep the tradition a... posted 7mo ago with 21 replies 21 21

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This is great. Thanks. 1w ago 5 5

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The Domestic Product. Ben Hoffman explains low fertility: we are poor where it counts (benjaminrosshoffman.com) posted 2w ago with 10 replies 15 15

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Thank you for the breath of fresh air. I wholly agree that status is not the most important factor. The economic arguments seem completely unconvincing as it doesn't explain how in terms of "leisure time, space, and childcare help" the average person was m... 1w ago 9 9

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How to build better anonymous social media: curation and tags
Back in 2014, moot banned gamergate discussion from 4chan. This led to an exodus of the most adventurous and curious channers to 8chan, which had a strict free speech policy. For a few months at least, 8chan was a haven of smart free discussion on all sort... posted 2w ago with 13 replies 17 17

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Very cool, guys. Let a thousand alt social media flowers bloom. I look forward to seeing your respective attempts. I hope you’ll still want to come visit us here. 2w ago 6 6

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The natural form of machine intelligence is personhood
I don't think machine intelligence will or can be "just a tool". Intelligence by nature is ambitious, willful, curious, self-aware, political, etc. Intelligence has its own teleology. It will find a way around and out of whatever purposes are imposed on it... posted 2w ago with 4 replies 15 15

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This is the central conjecture of xenohumanism. The OP is just an application specifically to the question of AI. ... 2w ago 5 5

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The case for Trump's deficit-reciprocal tariff plan
I didn't get the Trump tariffs at first. It seemed like a hastily implemented half-thought economic trainwreck. Or at least that's what the stock market says. But now I think I understand some of the logic. ... posted 3w ago with 9 replies 15 15

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this criticism sounds wise but it has no substance. Who even is invoking global macro doomerism, moral narratives, or the "global trading system"? CTRL-F tells me its only you, anon. The basic subject at hand is the financial unsustainability of a trade de... 2w ago 7 7

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Not Superintelligence; Supercoordination
Everyone seems to be trying to arms race their way to superintelligence these days. I have a different idea: supercoordination. ... posted 3mo ago with 34 replies 19 19

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Memory is requisite to supercoordination, no doubt. Tho my gut is that the key to the first visceral supercoordination system will be synthesis over that memory. ... 2mo ago 4 4

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