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Sofiechan Feature Planning
Hey guys you may have noticed I haven't been around much. I got a normie job. I needed a break from being a useless diletante, you see. But it's time to start thinking again about the next big set of projects for sofiechan. You guys have been remarkably te...
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Prediction Group House Idea
Years ago, before the rise of Polymarket and Kalshi, I read Phil Tetlock's Superforecasters and thought hard about the implications. I've my more or less my entire career investing and the book resonated with me immediately. The basic concept is straightfo...
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It's an interesting idea. The key questions are... 7d ago received

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Short Review of National Socialism - Its Principles and Philosophy by Carlos Videla
A friend asked me to read National Socialism, here's a collection of short thoughts:...
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Development is the Hard Truth
We open with this incredible line from Deng Xiaoping: "development is the hard truth"....
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Reparations In Liberia?
The plight of the Negro in the Americas is one of the great injustices of the world. Forced by the legacy of slavery to live among oppressors who hate and fear them, the African diaspora has been in a miserable state for hundreds of years. The internationa...
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The undisputed classic on Liberia, highly recommended if you have not seen it already:... 1w ago received

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New Mag Cooperation - Rumors of Discontent
Palladium’s publication frequency has recently been inconsistent, with the most current article in the most recent issue dating back to 2022. Its purpose should be to provide a reliable platform for uniting thinkers and policy innovators from key hubs li...
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Building Interactive Embedding Visualizations
I've been thinking for a while I'd love to represent topical clusters on a 2d or 3d map that users can actively explore. Instead of just having The Algorithm locate you on some manifold and then feed you specially calibrated slop, focus the algorithms on a...
(cprimozic.net) posted 1w ago with 2 replies received meta computing

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We can't keep living like this - murder of Iryna Zarutska
I'm very upset by this. I was reluctant to watch the un-edited video full video, but I did. We can't keep living like this....
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When are you turning in your natty card?
Anabolic steroids and related PEDs work really well. My friends and I spend a lot of time working out for aesthetics and strength and general health, but we’re natural. Why?...
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The Sofiechan Mount Whitney Expedition
Posting is fun, but the higher life is primarily physical. A couple weeks ago a few of us took on mount Whitney. At 14500 feet of pure Californian granite, it's the highest mountain in the continental United States, and a serious challenge even for strong ...
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The Sofiechan Mount received

Meditation on Mountain Peaks has some great passages that your ascent made me think of:... 7mo ago received

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On American Political Aesthetics
American politics used to be visually impressive. Today, they are visually ugly. All sides are aesthetically incompetent....
(x.com) posted 7mo ago with 34 replies received politics history fieldtrip

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Broader Western aesthetic decline is an separate question.... 7mo ago received

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Heart of Darkness
There are four global trends that threaten major crises in our lifetime: birthrate collapse, US-China conflict, AI runaway, and the one singular continent whose population continues to double. The first three of these are discussed ad nauseum in popular di...
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How to catch a wife, 2025 edition.
Anon asks how to find a good woman in 2025. I've been out of the game for a while and experience only generalizes so much, but success is informative, so I have some thoughts....
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A perfect question for this board. Deeply important, completely taboo to talk about honestly.... 5mo ago received

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I'm attaching a chart of factors associated with with reproductive success.... 4w ago received

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Can you get stable people to join a Männerbund?
I've been floating the idea of getting groups of young men around to do things, but it seems those with clock-in-clock-out careers, a house in the suburbs, a car, and a salary consider this to be the good life: normal and wonderful. They're telling me with...
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To answer your question directly: of course a Männerbund is composed of stable men.... 6mo ago received

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The Philosopher's Diet (general dietary wisdom thread)
I've never been tempted to take the peat pill. I get my diet advice from Plato, Tacitus, and ibn Khaldun: the Guardians should eat simple diet of roast meat and avoid allowing Corinthian girlfriends to feed them decadent food. The ancient Germans were stro...
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Just joined, greetings to all.... 2y ago received

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what is the research on this? is this just epigenetics? 2mo ago received

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Applied Gnon Theology
Nick Land crystalized an important current of the English theological tradition with one word: Gnon. Gnon stands in for Jefferson's "Nature or Nature's God", acronymized (NoNG), reversed (GNoN), and reified (Gnon). The concept is itself a stand-in for unce...
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How did Effective Altruism get so big?
I disagree with many of the views behind EA, but I've been fascinated by how they managed to make institutions, build a scene, start companies, NGOs, get funding, etc....
posted 2y ago with 28 replies received politics rationality

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Austin Sofiechan Meetup
If you're in Austin and on here, let's get together! Shadow networks must be formed, voting cabals, there is power here for those who seek it... or we can just get coffee....
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Amphetaminutes and cybernetic lock-in
The time-pressure and increased tempo of modern life is wildly under-discussed. Insurrealist has done a beautiful job of breaking through and laying down some interesting observations....
(insurrealist.substack.com) posted 7mo ago with 1 reply received life supercoordination

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The Future is Material
California is the western terminus, the perennial leading indicator. Even more than the rest of the West, we have completely forgotten how to build in the material world. We led the shift from physical to virtual and got stuck there, like a kid in Narnia t...
posted 3mo ago with 3 replies received technology

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Do you wish to subscribe to our newsletter? (experimental)
Hey anons, this week we have a big delivery: the sofiechan newsletter. It seems to work. We're shipping it. Head to the "you" page and click the endorse icon on the newsletter question to subscribe, and you should receive something in the hour after Monday...
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Horrorism vs Vitalism
I am pleased to see a holy war developing in the comments of "Applied Gnon Theology" between two Landian factions I will dub "orthodox horrorism" and my own "gnonic vitalism". Nothing is quite so productive as conflict, so I expect that whatever comes out ...
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Reading Groups and Political Mobilization
There's been some good discussion of reading lists at >>4188. I'll say a few words about a closely related topic, the reading group....
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What We Owe Charlie Kirk
As you've all seen by now, Charlie Kirk was martyred for having the courage to openly proclaim the ideals and realities this country was built on. I didn't agree with him about many things, but I find that I agree with him a lot more now that I've watched ...
posted 4mo ago with 17 replies received politics

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What goes on the reading list for the Students?
When someone is properly enlightened and can think outside the lies of the age, we say "he's done the reading". There are some obvious candidates for what that reading is exactly; the current classics like Moldbug, Land, and BAP for example. The 20th centu...
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Leaving the mainstream internet forever
I’m tempted every day to quit once and for all, to leave X and messaging apps like WhatsApp (literally the only “social media” I still use). If you need me, you’d have to call or send an email. But that’s not the main reason. The real reason is t...
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Interesting, who the mentats are?... 4mo ago received

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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...
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Intelligence vs Production
"Optimize for intelligence" says Anglo accelerationist praxis. "Seize the means of production" says the Chinese. Who's right? It is widely assumed in Western discourse that intelligence, the ability to comprehend all the signals and digest them into a plan...
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The Gay Question (Asylum Mag): homosociality vs sodomy
An explosive thesis: the centrality of male homoeroticism to premodern production of manliness and great men. We're all familiar by now with a few key ideas:...
(web.archive.org) posted 7mo ago with 25 replies received history life family

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Bismarck's Latest on Northrop Grumman
Yesterday, Samo Burja of Bismarck Analysis and their "Briefs" newsletter/product wrote on Northrop Grumman's technological expertise (stealth capacities) and their shortcomings as an institution beholden to Pentagon & state-driven initiatives as well as (n...
(finance.yahoo.com) posted 8mo ago with 7 replies received technology economics news

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Race in America
I know we want to be high brow here but forgive me anons....
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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....
(www.sscnet.ucla.edu) posted 2y ago with 10 replies received meta philosophy bookclub

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Remedial sex ed for zoomers: you're still an incel in the eyes of God
Millennial "dating" woes are going viral again, with gen z set up to do even worse (nearly half are incels). Fertility rates are spiraling. All discourse on the subject is from terminally ngmi femcels who have no idea what they are talking about. As a mill...
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This Thing Is Not Us. The imperative of cognitive separatism from the global american empire
I'm told "we" have a vital interest in defending Taiwan from China. Perhaps we do. Japan certainly seems to. I do like Japan. But then again, "we" also seem to have a vital interest in not quite letting Japan off the leash. I hear they are months from deve...
posted 3y ago with 12 replies received politics fieldtrip

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Post-human bodies
Terraforming is sentimental. It presumes the primacy of the human envelope. But biology is just legacy code. The correct trajectory is not world-building but self-rewriting. Recompile the body for hostile environments. Speciate to fit. Martian gravity is a...
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Take it one step further. Why bipedal fleshy animals at all?... 8mo ago received

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BAP: The Right of the Stronger and the Better
BAP is sometimes obscurantist. In this essay, which only appeared in print prior, he is not obscuring anything. If one had any questions about the power core of his program, here it is on a silver platter. I personally tend to think the formation of new st...
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Precisely. LKW also masterfully stayed within the unwritten limits, thereby cementing his impact and legacy.... 7mo ago received

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Welcome to Sofie Channel. Curated anonymous discussion about life and philosophy.
I've been working on a little something in the background for the past year, and more earnestly for the past few months. It's a new social media platform designed to curate a high quality discourse community about whatever topics are important to us....
posted 2y ago with 30 replies received meta philosophy

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Phenomenology as useful turbo-autism
I was reading the Heraclitus fragments this weekend, and luckily my pdf had the Greek alongside English. Fragment 10 says "Φύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεῖ", which was translated as "Things keep their secrets". My Greek knowledge, despite being ...
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Xeno Futures Research Unit
I've decided to organize an independent research project with some young men back home. I've drafted out a brief mission statement, let me know if you guys have any thoughts, suggestions, directions I could take this. Obviously ambitious, the initial goal ...
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Slight update on our mission statement, some clarifications and an attempt at formalized rigor.... 8mo ago received

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Alt-social failures, coolness, and Good work
The central issue with all these 'alt-social' sites is coolness. A quick binary measure of coolness for websites is the existence of an /about page. Radiopaper has one, as does Uptrust, so they go immediately in the bin....
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