Digitalist Papers: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Participation
“The dual nature of anonymity and shared identity can allow a new reserved civic participation that can make us more comfortable interacting with fellow community members who can otherwise seem very different or foreign to us, which can perhaps also incr...
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Radical political technology
JABowery is a pioneer of computer & space technology, but the last couple of years he's been thinking about how technology can allow humans to set up new forms of governance, operating from the level of an individual and scaling up (libertarian-conservativ...
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How would we educate a young prince?
In another thread we considered whether a more intelligent population would have fewer social problems. Some comments brought out the intriguing idea that for matters of the functionality of society, structure and regime and therefore education may matter ...
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How a more intelligent/educated population would change the system
I have been thinking a lot about how a more educated population could both become just economically richer or understand/realize the flaws of the system and so create a better one based on less exploitation (as the current one) of less intelligent /fortuna...
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Against 'State of Nature'
Something BAP mentioned recently and that I see a lot of these days is a tendency to puzzle over what man was like in a 'state of nature'. It is weak thinking and should be discarded. Two prominent examples of this I see invoked are evopsych's "on the ance...
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Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out
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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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Wokism Is Just Beginning
Nathan Cofnas argues that the institutional take-over from Boomers is going to further strengthen the woke power.
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The H1B Question, “high skill” immigration, and the purpose of the modern state
We’ve got a growing rift on the pre-inauguration maga right. Elon and the silicon valley techlords want massively increased “high skill” immigration. The maga base and intellectual vanguard are done with immigration and want mass deportation of forei...
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San Francisco Reform Party Thread
With the election of some new more moderate folks into SF government and a more tractable national ideological climate, a bunch of us seem to be thinking the same thing: lets develop a new politics for san francisco. SF is uniquely upstream so this is also...
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Will All Our Drugs Come From China?
This is a fascinating article. In new molecular entities count (i.e. drugs entering clinical research pipeline) China has already surpassed EU and is rapidly catching up to US. All the major western pharma companies are licensing drugs from china and expan...
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Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Merry Christmas sofie channers
Thanks every one for posting with us this year. We wish you a very merry Christmas as we celebrate the re-entrance of the divine light into the world.
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The Jocks and the Nerds, allied against the Theater-kids.
"Warriors" and "Merchants" need to ally against the "Priests" - that would be the read from the perspective of Gaetano Mosca to our current situation.
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How I came to believe in the goodness of God
I was raised on what my mother called "natural history". The story of creation was one of billions of years in layers of bedrock. The story of life was the struggle of genes for resources and reproduction. When I met christians, they were the unsophisticat...
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Sofie Calls, "spaces" on Sofiechan - feature request
Could be interesting to have some form of "twitter space" / broadcast audio feed for these conversations.
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Physicalism vs "Existence"
Many people seem to think there's something to the idea of the "existence" of the world, but I have come to question this. To be clear this is connected to classic questions like "why is there something rather than nothing", simulation argument, Boltzmann ...
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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...
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"Trump's America"
I would assume some of you might be celebrating, others don't have high expectations of the upcoming administration.
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Actually Existing Postliberalism by Nathan Pinkoski
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Ian's death and antifa at CCC: why hackers must become nationalists. Classic weev
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The Virtue of Cruelty by Avetis Muradyan
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Will to Think on Xenosystems
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Milsim West: Shali Front After Action Report
This post breached the character count limit on Sofie Channel, so I'm including a link to it.
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To this group, probably the sub-sections with the following headers: ...
Lessons from Palantir Alums About Building a Tech Company
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Some Sofiechan Design Questions
Hey folks. I have some design questions to resolve for the future of sofiechan. I want to solicit feedback from those of you who have been using it and helping me.
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A Sketch of Near Future Political Prognosis
I want to speculate for a minute about what kind of revolutionary or reform potential exists in our political-economic system as the current era of boomer senility and liberalism reaches its breaking point. I'm going to skip over a lot of reasoning here fo...
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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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Whence Cometh Knowledge of Induction?
If we hold our beliefs to the discipline of probability and evidence, some puzzles remain. For example, most thinkers are familiar with the problem of induction. How do you know the sun will rise tomorrow? Well, because it always has and we have precise th...
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Can Rationality Support Healthy Morality?
I went to church yesterday with another sofiechanner. It was nice to see a healthy community full of normal young people who live with gratitude and hope. The sermon incisively applied their worldview to support the moral discipline necessary for healthy l...
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rats more elite but libertarians more vigorous
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Hedging Against Economic Depression
As you all are aware, the U.S. has been experiencing tremendous levels of inflation recently. Much of this is a post-COVID stimulus reaction.
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The Sofiechan Email Apocalypse may be over
Hey everyone, you may have experienced some difficulty logging in as the login emails were increasingly going to spam boxes. This was mostly because we didn't have all the SPF, DKIM, and DMARC stuff set up for email authentication. Now we do. It "Works On ...
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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.
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https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/index.html
Was "going steady" a positive or negative
When I read biographies about people who came of age in the first half of the 19th century, I notice something very different about their courtship.
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"Bull fighting" from the future: Drone Slaying
For a few months I've been thinking about the history of warfare and sports. My grandfather grew up bullfighting - Most of my memories of him are watching the "corridas" every Saturday.
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Pedagogy
One characteristic I've observed with non-parents in our circles is that they have strong opinions about pedagogy and child-rearing (despite having zero firsthand knowledge of anything other than their own childhoods and a lot of extremist literature).
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Sample lesson kernel which can encompass many winding detours: The Collatz Conjecture. ...
Road Trip Week 2: Escape to San Francisco
Driving the 101 down the coast, Oregon is the longest and hardest part. Endless repetition of idyllic towns, beautiful coastline, and lush forest. Over and over and over. It would be quite a nice place to retire to, but didn't seem to have much else going ...
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We need to make mental-firmware for normies
I was talking to my normie parents (Harvard educated, Clinton supporters) about the presidential debate. My parents think I support Trump, but when politics is brought up, I say "both are bad" and divert the conversation.
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Thanks to our Admin/Host
I wanted to thank our Admin/Host for coming to stay with us. Having him and his wonderful family spend a long weekend with us was a breath of fresh air. I introduced them to some local families who in turn greatly appreciated the invite. We compared notes ...
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Road Trip: Missing Weeks Through Utah, Wyoming, and South Dakota.
As you may or may not have noticed, I have not been posting weekly road trip reports, and sofiechan has been rather neglected overall. These are related: driving and camping with a family is actually fairly time intensive. I wanted to give some kind of upd...
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Soft Ware for Hard Power
I learned Photoshop as an autistic youth who wanted to make logos and background graphics for friends' gaming YouTube channels. Thousands of hours of skill development there transferred to every graphic design software I've come across since (Illustrator, ...
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Paul Christiano proposes advisory voting/crowdsourced cyber-monarchy back in 2016
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Classical Education with Confucian Characteristics
I started writing a response to >>1967 but it reached the point where it deserves a new thread, possibly for discussion on further reading groups, ordering, importance, etc.
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Road trip week 5, 6: The wedding, public land, overpopulation, underpopulation, unsociety.
The road trip at the end of week 5 took us across the bay to celebrate the wedding of an old friend and teacher. I didn't know what to expect, but it was delightfully well done. Congratulations to the couple.
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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.
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Road Trip Week 4: The Soul of a New Taste Machine in San Francisco
We're still becalmed in San Francisco, hanging out with friends, working a bit more on Sofiechan, and this week experiencing life in "the tenderknob".
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Throne, Altar, Freehold. Jim.com's classic defense of monarchist libertarianism
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The Drone Question. Is America screwed by lack of industrial capacity?
The war in Ukraine is teaching us that explosive hunter-seeker drones, FPV piloted or autonomous, are shockingly overpowered. Flying panzerfausts are wrecking armor for fractional cents on the dollar, and flying grenades are blowing the legs off of boys wh...
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Towards an Illegible Computational Medium of Exchange
You cannot be sovereign if you do not control your medium of exchange, if your enemies can insert themselves into every transaction and tax it or block it at will.
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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.
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Clear guidance for women
Although I expect that most here will be men, I want to ask: What should we encourage young women to do?
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How should we do startups to retain teleological independence and win real power?
If one has ambition, talent, friends, and a good idea, one can build a successful company in Silicon Valley. But why? Money is nice; you ascend the bourgeois class tournament and get finer luxuries, more respect, better mates, better schools, better friend...
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Road Trip Week 1: Country Island Dreaming from Saanich to Tillamook
Time for some good old fashioned travel journalism in the style of James Anthony Froude: a road trip survey of America's human and natural geography from a Volkswagen camper van. With my family of 6 (4 kids including a newborn), we're driving around the mi...
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Going to bat for "hard materialism"
The saying goes that any discussion eventually becomes about Hitler, but over in the blood and soil thread, it's become about metaphysics. Specifically the valuation of a quantitative worldview, or even "hard materialism", relative to a more holistic quali...
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Thoughtcrime is the first discipline in the art of ideology.
Your initiation and first exercise in the martial art of ideology is to think something, and really truly believe it, that would get you arrested if you said it in public. If you can't do this, you are intellectually boxed in. You are cut off from reality ...
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>>1296 seems somewhat relevant with regard to this discussion. The timer is ticking.
Manifesto for the New Right
I saw this video recently, and was struck that the author (Rudyard Lynch) uses many of the same ideas that I have heard in person from the admin of sofiechan. This includes the idea that God is natural law and the followers of God's truth/natural law are r...
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Reading Group Announcement: Carroll Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope
Following our discussion at >>1305, let’s read and discuss Tragedy and Hope. This book, published in 1966, is one of the masterworks of Carroll Quigley, arguably the 20th century’s best historian. It’s an ambitious macrohistory of Western Civilizatio...
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How to Control an Online Forum
This thread is for the linked post about disinformation and forum control.
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Talent pool for the next regime
There do not seem to be many places in America for someone to become worthy of power. I do not buy that becoming a minor merchant aristocrat by founding an enterprise SaaS company makes one fit to govern. The military seems to be culturally compromised. Su...
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The Dolphin Question
Now that there are some more people on here I think the hour has dawned to unleash the DQ: the Dolphin Question.
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Known good guides to gatekeeping?
Suppose you are starting a social club as a means of moving toward something bigger and better.
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A musing on unitary power
A common defense of democracy is that while it does not guarantee the establishment of good government, it ensures the removal of a bad one.
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Strong genomic selection is almost feasible, and no one cares?
Strong genomic selection is the ability to create people who have genomes that are strongly selected--by several standard deviations--for some trait. Strong genomic selection would be a civilizational game-changer. For the price of a car, or less, accordin...
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Guide to Carroll Quigley’s books
Carroll Quigley was a historian who lived from 1910 to 1977. He is a major influence on a bunch of people in our little circle, myself included. Mr. Quigley’s great genius is in analyzing how political and economic systems are intertwined, a subject wher...
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I just bought, but have not yet started, Tragedy and Hope, so that one would have my vote.
The Biosingularity
Interesting new essay by Anatoly Karlin. Why wouldn't the principle of the singularity apply to organic life?
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Book Club: Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy.
Dr Alamariu dropped his groundbreaking dissertation last year and by now you have all had a chance to read it. Let's read it again and discuss. This book really hits hard doing two related things that I think are of supreme importance:
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What books are you currently reading?
I'm reading:
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Thoughts on Prospera
Some of you may be aware of the conference/pop-up city called Vitalia (https://vitalia.city/) that is currently taking place in a charter city in Honduras called Prospera.
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Updates on sofiechan's curation system: Cybernetic Direct Democracy
I (admin) just pushed a bunch of changes. You'll see it most obviously in the percent signs next to the save and hide buttons, and as colored emojis indicating which posts are well regarded, and which are about to be deleted. Broadly, this is part of how s...
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How to Found a Great House
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Seven Heresies of "Rationality"
I really wanted to like the Lesswrong rationality project. There was a philosophical core there that no one else was anywhere close to. It was ambitious, elite, curious, systematic, and utterly unashamed. That's what drew many of us in.
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The martial art of ideology
The best idea on Lesswrong was the martial art of rationality. It didn't deliver.
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