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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.... (yggdrasil-network.github.io) posted 2h ago with 2 replies received computing

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As the internet becomes overwhelmed with diversity, the masses, and AI slop, it does become necessary to construct more selective subnets of various kinds. At a most basic level, social networks which do this or provide for it will become more valuable. Th... 2m ago received

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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.... posted 4d ago with 16 replies received gnon computing

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You're on to something, but I think B-SAT is the wrong problem to work with. If you want to apply modern deep learning to an NP-complete problem that can serve as general target for problem translations, you want a problem that has a natural metric on solu... 15m ago received

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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... posted 33m ago with no replies received history

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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... posted 2d ago with 8 replies received gnon

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The adjective use is McCarthy-esque, but it needs more rhythm in the sentence structure and maybe a smattering of fragmentary asides to really hit.... 61m ago received

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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... posted 2d ago with 6 replies received philosophy rationality

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This is totally true, and should be expected with any kind of cognitive procedure that really does interfere with fundamental neural machinery.... 1h ago received

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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.... posted 3h ago with no replies received eugenics

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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... posted 7d ago with 5 replies received eugenics gnon nietzsche

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More pointedly, i dont think higher man or homeric man or anything like that is about absolute competence or anything like that. Its an interesting lens to think through but the reality is more about types, and types are about niche. Homeric man is dead be... 3h ago received

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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 3w ago with 8 replies received technology accelerationism superintelligence

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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... posted 6d ago with 6 replies received eugenics

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This is good to the how and why to marriage, but doesn't explain how to find a woman that will stick to you, which is the actual "dating woe" of current year. I also protest the use of "incel" in the OP, really pointless to a) broaden the term, even if fun... 24h ago received

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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... posted 2d ago with 6 replies received economics

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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.... posted 2mo ago with 15 replies received politics

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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... (www.youtube.com) posted 4d ago with 7 replies received bookclub nietzsche

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Rowsell is a reconstructionist and I believe leans Platonist in his theology, for what it's worth. Reconstructionism, at least in a British context, inevitably feels at least somewhat like LARPing because ancient Anglo-Saxon culture does not have much in c... 2d ago received

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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 4w ago with 3 replies received technology economics

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Decentralized processes are virtually never as efficient as centralized. The point is to maintain some capacity even if the biggest x facitlities are destroyed or disabled. 2d ago received

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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:... posted 2w ago with 11 replies received philosophy superintelligence gnon

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I call this "faith in being." It is the primordial form of faith. One may or may not have more particular faith in particular things (revelations, ancestors, familial relations) but one must have faith in being, or one will be lost in nihilism. 2d ago received

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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... posted 1w ago with 15 replies received accelerationism superintelligence

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This is a good way to think about it. We set our children off in directions we are optimistic about, while also celebrating that they may end up finding somewhere else to be more amenable to life. I'll add a few things to your picture:... 2d ago received

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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... posted 4w ago with 9 replies received accelerationism eugenics

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For a long time, I found the robot progeny idea inevitable yet distasteful. I now find it inevitable and aesthetically pleasing. Your characterization of bodiless-ness as the ultimate body is powerful.... 3d 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... (www.bronzeagepervert.yoga) posted 2w ago with 22 replies received politics nietzsche

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“And guess what, the US/WEF consensus generally regards him as a hero. This is completely load-bearing--it's why Singapore is well integrated into the Western world, which is the only way for a modern small state to be prosperous and reasonably sovereign... 5d 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 1y ago with 30 replies received meta philosophy

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Thanks. So far so good and i have a lot of ideas for how to improve the taste machine further. The main bottleneck at this point i think is we have to bootstrap a network of good discussion here. Then with scale we will see more clearly the problems requir... 5d ago received

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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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Reading Jim is like reading Aristotle. How he is able to condense this stuff so efficiently, I don't know. All I can say is God bless the 6sigma R1bers. I used to read a lot more of his stuff, but I feel like it's lately been verging a bit more into boomer... 7d ago received

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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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Its a good question, I'd need to think about it. I have never followed Canadian politics closely but there's little hope except for Alberta and Quebec to gain some form of Nationhood ... the rest of the state doesn't exist as a nation in any meaningful sen... 1w ago received

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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 ... posted 3w ago with 4 replies received philosophy bookclub

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These resources are all very good — thank you to everyone who's replied. I think given the tenor so far we should just turn this into a spergathon of posting the best Greek resources. Please continue with hidden gems, forbidden texts, and generally the m... 1w ago received

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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 ... posted 3w ago with 15 replies received accelerationism superintelligence

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Yeah, this is a totally fair point, and I think a lot of the "effective accerationsists" push this argument so far as to invalidate their entire worldview.... 2w ago received

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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... posted 4w ago with 10 replies received politics history

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My understanding is that the biggest cities have always been fertility-negative on average for as long as we've had cities. But you are right that the most civilized types of men are the result of city-related selection. So what's going on? Would first of ... 2w ago received

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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 ... posted 3w ago with 3 replies received history

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An important feature of the theoretical approach in The Evolution of Civilizations is that it looks at changes over very long timescales, and glosses over anything which doesn't endure for at least half a century.... 2w ago received

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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... posted 2mo ago with 27 replies received philosophy gnon

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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... 4w ago received

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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�... (www.palladiummag.com) posted 1mo ago with 11 replies received economics supercoordination

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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. 1mo ago received

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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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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 ... 1mo 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.... posted 2mo ago with 9 replies received meta gnon

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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.... 1mo ago received

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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... posted 2mo ago with 5 replies received history

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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... 1mo ago received

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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... posted 4mo ago with 10 replies received technology accelerationism rationality

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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... 1mo ago received

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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... posted 1mo ago with 6 replies received 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% 1mo ago received

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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.... posted 2mo ago with 3 replies received meta

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They're nice! It's a small thing, but a good aesthetic improvement. Also a functional improvement, in that they make it easier to track anons when scanning a thread. 2mo ago received

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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... posted 3mo ago with 9 replies received superintelligence economics

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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... 2mo ago received

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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:... posted 2mo ago with 2 replies received meta

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Yeah it happens. I wish I had a better solution for you. It's been working reliably for most people afaik, and email is tough to get over those final reliability hurdles. Right now we're just using nearlyfreespeech as the provider, but we'll probably have ... 2mo 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... posted 9mo ago with 21 replies received rationality

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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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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... 3mo ago received

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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 3mo ago with 13 replies received meta technology

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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. 3mo ago received

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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 3mo ago with 4 replies received accelerationism superintelligence

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This is the central conjecture of xenohumanism. The OP is just an application specifically to the question of AI.... 3mo ago received

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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 6mo ago with 34 replies received rationality superintelligence

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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.... 5mo ago received

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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... posted 8mo ago with 21 replies received rationality gnon

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Thank you. Sounds like Lasker goes on the infinitely expanding list of books i ought to read. Any new angles on Gnon theology are highly valuable at this point in our program. 7mo ago received

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