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The third-worldification of the global internet: are private network enclaves the answer?
Following recent anon discourse on the general third-worldification of the internet, I've been pondering potential solutions....
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Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness are NP-Complete?
A know what you're thinking: anon's gone all kooky mashing together a bunch of mysterious things, wrapping it in some gold foil, and worshipping it as an idol. Maybe, maybe not. Hear me out....
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Meritocracy, Liberalism, and the Paradox of Tolerance
Karl Popper pulled a nasty trick on us with the idea of the "open society". He defined it as the society in which anything can be said or done except that which threatens tolerant neutrality. This he called the "paradox of tolerance". In other words the "o...
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Of Vitality
Men clamor over a place in line to proclaim and demand a thing like ‘vitality’ if it comes from their master above. But never do they offer so much as a second’s meditation on right action to attain such a thing. One wonders why—but then one sees t...
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Medidation, Enlightenment, Dharma, and Sokushinbutsu
I see we have some enlightenment-seeking buddhist types lurking around. I have a question for them: what is it you think is valuable about these "enlightened" mental states reachable with meditation etc? I hear about them occasionally but by the self-admis...
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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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What form of life does nature consider highest?
Empirically, literal yeast life wins the contest of sheer biomass. The untouchable prokaryotic bacterial masses that recycle the world's biological waste out-masses everything else. On that theme we're also soundly beaten by hive insects like ants and such...
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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...
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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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Are the interests of capital and industry necessarily in conflict with health?
During Englands industrial revolution people rushed into the cities and there were many more people to feed. Wars restricted trade which led to a huge boom in the alcohol industry in England, along with this many dairy establishments moved into the city. T...
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Commentary vs Plans
Most discussions on the right are still largely bogged down by targeting what the left does wrong instead of formulating actual plans. Commentary vs Plans....
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The Future of Paganism and Christianity / Lost Gods
I want to try a new book club. We begin with this documentary featuring Tom Rowsell that pairs nicely with our recent "true religion of the coming civilization" thread: https://sofiechan.com/p/3110...
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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...
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"Cosmic Alignment" is almost right. Life is the answer
Philosopher it-girl Ginevra Davis gave a great talk on "Cosmic Alignment" the other day. I was glad to see serious thinking against the current paradigm of "AI Alignment". Her argument is that alignment makes three big unsupported speculations:...
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If it keeps going, we win; the implication of extreme alignment difficulty
AI alignment divides the future into "good AI" (utopia, flourishing) vs "bad AI" (torture, paperclips), and denies distinction between "dead" and "alive" futures if they don't fit our specific "values". This drives the focus on controlling and preventing a...
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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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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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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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It is the will of Gnon that we shall fill the stars and subdue them. Jim solves the great filter, rejects copernican principle.
https://blog.reaction.la/science/it-is-the-will-of-gnon-that-we-shall-fill-the-stars-and-subdue-them/ posted 4mo ago with 2 replies received gnon

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Canada's economy at an inflection. Deep roots of youth unemployment
https://sphinxe.substack.com/p/canadas-economy-at-an-inflection posted 1w ago with 5 replies received economics

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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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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...
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An Addendum to Quigley's Evolution of Civilizations.
In the Evolution of Civilizations, Quigley models organizations in the following way: he argues that organizations have social missions, and they are called ‘instruments’ to the extent that organizations fulfill their social missions. However, if they ...
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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...
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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...
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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 1y ago with 9 replies received philosophy bookclub

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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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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...
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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...
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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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Ergonomic features for anons and namefags: pronouncable nyms and profile pages
This week in the sofie mines, we've got pronounceable non-sequential anon ids (anon_haho, anon_ryfi, anon_lifo, etc), and custom nym bios and even profile pictures for nyms with proper usernames. Check it out....
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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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Notifications have arrived, along with some smaller fixes and polish
Well it's that time again: 4:00 on a Friday afternoon. Time for the big push of barely-tested code to production! The sofiechan team has been slaving away in the code mines for you again this week, and we have some new updates:...
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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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The Domestic Product. Ben Hoffman explains low fertility: we are poor where it counts
https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-domestic-product/ posted 3mo ago with 10 replies received history economics

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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...
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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...
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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....
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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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