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Introduction to Yarvin-Land-Accelerationism-Neo-Monarchism, etc.
I often find myself grappling with the question of how to introduce the people around me to the ideas of Yarvin and Land (especially Yarvin), and by extension to libertarianism, monarchism, and related theories. The length and tone of Yarvin's writing can ...
posted 2w ago with 4 replies accelerationism

Introduction to Yarv

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

Scylla and Charybdis
Way I see it, there are two big attractors for the trajectory of AI in general (not LLMs, not particularly concerned about them)....
posted 3w ago with 2 replies accelerationism

Scylla and Charybdis

Why should anyone share their ideas?
Say one figured out the problems of today and how to solve such things. Why share these ideas when others take your good ideas to develop their own society whereas you gain nothing but spent time?...
posted 4w ago with 4 replies accelerationism

Why should anyone sh

Patchwork city states ?
With State capacity decline and movement of decentralization how probable is it that we see something like sov corp city states emerging ? First through corporations providing private security (I think this is already the case in Brazil to some extent) eve...
posted 1mo ago with 6 replies technology accelerationism sovereignty

Patchwork city state

AGI and demographics
Sometimes you believe two things but don't know how to think about them at the same time. Very few people could think well about how AGI relates to companies before 2015ish. Similarly, very few people could think well about how AGI relates to governments b...
posted 1mo ago with 1 reply accelerationism

AGI and demographics

AI 2027
https://ai-2027.com/ posted 2mo ago with 12 replies rationality accelerationism

AI 2027

The devil's argument against the falseness of eden, and God's reason for evil
I have been bothered for some time by the idea that Eden is either coherent or desirable. This idea is implicit in the problem of evil: we see that reality is different from Eden in that it includes a bunch of scary dangerous uncomfortable stuff we would r...
posted 3mo ago with 6 replies philosophy accelerationism metaphysics

The devil's argument

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 2mo ago with 4 replies rationality accelerationism intelligence

The natural form of

This is the central conjecture of xenohumanism. The OP is just an application specifically to the question of AI.... 2mo ago

This is the central

Nines or zeroes of strong rationality?
Proof theory problems (Rice, Lob, Godel, etc) probably rule out perfect rationality (an agent that can fully prove and enforce bounds on its own integrity and effectiveness). But in practice, the world might still become dominated by a singleton if it can ...
posted 3mo ago with 4 replies rationality accelerationism intelligence

Nines or zeroes of s

Xenohumanism Against Shoggoth Belief
People usually think of Lovecraft as a xenophobe. I don't think that's quite right. What he was most afraid of was that the universe, and even most of so-called mankind, was not alien, but insane. He grasped at any shred of higher rational humanity whether...
posted 3mo ago with 3 replies rationality philosophy accelerationism

Xenohumanism Against

We need a school of true anthropology. 3mo ago

We need a school of

Dissolving vs. Surviving
Recent xenohumanist discussion has the doomer assumption built in that we as humans will be dissolving when higher man arrives on the scene. I don't think that's set in stone and want to offer a clarification....
posted 3mo ago with 5 replies technology accelerationism gnon

Dissolving vs. Survi

a loving superintelligence
Superintelligence (SI) is near, raising urgent alignment questions....
posted 4mo ago with 4 replies technology accelerationism

a loving superintell

Rat King 1518. Insurrealist takes on Scott Alexander's "Moloch"
https://insurrealist.substack.com/p/rat-king-1518 posted 4mo ago with 5 replies rationality accelerationism metaphysics

Rat King 1518. Insur

Agency. On Machine Intelligence and Worm Wisdom by Insurrealist
https://insurrealist.substack.com/p/agency posted 4mo ago with 2 replies accelerationism gnon

Agency. On Machine I

By what means to the Ubermensch? Four possible paths for superhuman development.
I want to explore the possible nature (in the physical sense) of the ubermensch. There are four paths to the ubermensch I've heard seriously proposed which depend on entirely different "technology" stacks and which have somewhat different assumptions about...
posted 13mo ago with 5 replies eugenics accelerationism

By what means to the

The Biosingularity
Interesting new essay by Anatoly Karlin. Why wouldn't the principle of the singularity apply to organic life?
(www.nooceleration.com) posted 1y ago with 23 replies accelerationism

The Biosingularity

Some thoughts on extropian/accelerationist life strategy
What is to be done with respect to acceleration and accelerationist arguments? Should you try to accelerate overall intelligence growth, or decelerate it, or do your own thing despite it, or cut off your balls and go insane, or what? People do all of these...
posted 2y ago with 6 replies ideology accelerationism lifestyle

Some thoughts on ext

\> I need a way to think about accelerationist AI apocalypse in a non-millenarian way.... 2y ago

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