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Capitalism is AI ?
I've finished reading the excellent collection of fragments from Land's corpus dealing with the question of Capitalism as AI. His broadest thesis is that Capitalism is identical to AI, in that both are adaptive, information-processing, self-exciting entiti... posted 9h ago with 3 replies technology accelerationism

Capitalism is AI ?

Yours is a nice summary that demonstrates good understanding of one of the groundwork ideas of Land. It is probably the first step one must take along the path to some of our native sofilosophy. I don’t know if Meltdown is included in the collection you ... 7h ago

Yours is a nice summ

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 ... posted 4d ago with 2 replies philosophy bookclub learning

Phenomenology as use

You should check out THE ART AND THOUGHT OF HERACLITUS by Kahn. Lots of commentary on Heraclitus filters his fragments through Aristotle and other later philosopher's interpretation. Kahn attempts a purely textual exegesis which attempts to reconstruct Her... 10h ago

You should check out

IDEA WORLDS
Thought this would be a good place to post my draft.... (personalwebsitetwo.fly.dev) posted 2d ago with 7 replies accelerationism

IDEA WORLDS

On German and Mid-Atlantic English:... 2d ago

On German and Mid-At

On the Erosion of Society, Erroneous Optimism, & what should replace it
By now, all can smell the new feeling in the air. Whether it be 53 BC Rome, 1787 France, or 1850s America, this pungent sensation is something all have felt prior to years of great change & strife. We may discuss the recent feuds in California, the instabi... posted 1w ago with 9 replies politics history

On the Erosion of So

This is backwards. Cities are the engine of human advancement.... 2d ago

This is backwards. C

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 ... posted 4d ago with 7 replies technology intelligence

Xeno Futures Researc

I intend on having a website up in the next two weeks. Still working on fleshing out the plan and the vision but things are falling into place. 3d ago

I intend on having a

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... posted 6d ago with 7 replies eugenics accelerationism

Post-human bodies

Of course “naturalist” is the correct term for a sensible scientific civilization that integrates the lessons of evolution and industry and astrophysics into its being without superstitious attachments.... 4d ago

Of course “naturalis

Kolmogorov Paranoia: Extraordinary Evidence Probably Isn't.
I enjoyed this takedown of Scott Alexander's support for the COVID natural origins theory. Basically, Scott did a big "bayesian" analysis of the evidence for and against the idea that COVID originated in the lab vs naturally. As per his usual pre-written c... (michaelweissman.substack.com) posted 2w ago with 2 replies rationality intelligence

Kolmogorov Paranoia:

To be clear this scheme is actually bayesian. Yes you can do this with standard bayes, and the bayesian update from the experts or whatever is dominated by the nonindependence hypotheses. The point is to actually do it, and that you can heuristically estim... 5d ago

To be clear this sch

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 1w ago with 2 replies technology economics

Bismarck's Latest on

That idea of building many small factories sounds like it's not going to work very well. I'm not a manufacturing guy, but centralization in "gigafactories" is what SpaceX is doing. Vertical integration is probably better than whatever the primes are doing ... 7d ago

That idea of buildin

Roland-Garros and aristocratic institutions
I watched the French Open men's final on Sunday. The combatants were Jannik Sinner, a 23 year old German-blooded Italian, and Carlos Alcaraz, a 22 year old Spanish Moor. Great match, but I miss the elegance and athletic beauty of Federer. As a man of tenni... (www.ultimatetennisstatistics.com) posted 1w ago with 1 reply sociology eugenics health

Roland-Garros and ar

Good post but I'm gonna disagree with the framing. tbh the hyperspecialized "start training for a sport while you're still in the womb and make it the sole focus of your life" stuff never seemed aristocratic to me. I understand the aristocratic focus on sp... 1w ago

Good post but I'm go

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 1y ago with 28 replies meta philosophy lifestyle

Welcome to Sofie Cha

Thank you for creating this site - it's tiring having to find good discussions on twitter or 4chan without it devolving into babbling chimps hurling shit at each other & calling others Jewish. 1w ago

Thank you for creati

Is Unitarianism the true religion of the coming civilization?
Jefferson didn't quite get the dates right, but I offer the provocation that he was right in spirit about Unitarianism. Unitarianism takes the best of the Christian tradition and broader European philosophical tradition, and unifies and purifies it of supe... posted 4w ago with 27 replies philosophy gnon theology

Is Unitarianism the

You are right about these things. I will attempt what you have specified. But i'm still lacking two things: a good hook, and "what's the point". We can be as right as we like about philosophy and so on but if there isn't some actual operational program tha... 2w ago

You are right about

The Megaproject Economy
Raises the question: what’s the closest human civilization has come to the megaproject economy? Pre-industrial societies had the mindset of distributing wealth to society scale projects. But they lacked industrial capabilities, so their “megaprojects�... (www.palladiummag.com) posted 3w ago with 11 replies coordination economics palladium

The Megaproject Econ

As a matter of historical fact, the communism part came first, then later the race part was added, and then the global part was added. 2w ago

As a matter of histo

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 1y ago with 9 replies philosophy bookclub

A Hidden Gem

Othmar Spann is a hidden gem i've been working through recently, he's overlooked in the Continental tradition but a great companion piece to Spengler, Hegel, and Yockey. One of the few Catholic writers in the Germanic Continental tradition, even more rare ... 2w ago

Othmar Spann is a hi

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.... posted 4w ago with 9 replies meta gnon startups

Alt-social failures,

This 100%, but also I actually do not want to know what sofiechan is. Is any decent social media platform definable? Its indescribability is what lets it hold power over us. Magic is not defined; it is ingraspable.... 3w ago

This 100%, but also

Is Islam a more appropriate starting point than Christianity for the modern Western elite?
I've been reading "Cities of God", about the history of early Christianity and how Christianity rapidly spread through the late antique Mediterranean world by filling a niche in the urban centers. (It was nearly absent in rural areas until forced conversio... posted 4w ago with 5 replies politics history theology

Is Islam a more appr

This will become especially true if we do end up with low-grade speciation from either some kind of genetic tampering or selective breeding between the elite. Already, you could argue that selection mechanisms in the West have led to a sort of situation li... 3w ago

This will become esp

The Hellenic View of Existential Risk
When I was a teen, I read much of the Less Wrong and the rationalist work of the day. This provided the basis for a vague worry surrounding "existential risk." The feeling was pervasive, and I would read works about the dangers of AI or other technology to... posted 3mo ago with 10 replies technology rationality philosophy

The Hellenic View of

I think in this discussion, as well as the places where I generally see this particular kind of critique of EA and x-risk come up, there's a conflation of two intertwined but separable core issues. The first is the factual risk of irreparable damage to the... 3w ago

I think in this disc

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... posted 3w ago with 6 replies meta

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Let's see if I get used it, but right now it feels like it will reduce my likelihood to post interesting links by 80% and effortpoasts by 30% 3w ago

Let's see if I get u

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... posted 2mo ago with 9 replies technology accelerationism economics

Intelligence vs Prod

Look no comment on the current regime and its lack of tact. I support their priorities but there's obviously a lot of dumb stuff going on. In any case I consider it orthogonal to what we should be doing in theory and i wish not to be constrained by their r... 4w ago

Look no comment on t

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 8mo ago with 21 replies ideology rationality learning

Should You Hide Your

This is great. Thanks. 2mo ago

This is great. Thank

Not Superintelligence; Supercoordination
Everyone seems to be trying to arms race their way to superintelligence these days. I have a different idea: supercoordination.... posted 5mo ago with 34 replies rationality sociology intelligence

Not Superintelligenc

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.... 4mo ago

Memory is requisite