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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 1d ago with 4 replies technology accelerationism bookclub

Capitalism is AI ?

Yes, that sounds right. A singleton maximizing extropy is stable. Many actors maximizing entropy is not: you end up in a catabolic collapse as the actor's environment is eaten for the (temporary) sake of the actor. Arguably this describes our current descr... 10h ago

Yes, that sounds rig

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 5d 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... 1d ago

You should check out

Ordeal of Civility by John Murray Cuiddihy
One of the best treatments of the JQ, IMO. Interested in discussing it and maybe working through some of the sociology that informs it like Erving Goffman, Weber, and Matossian. Second City Bureaucrat has some great articles drawing from its insights for a... posted 2w ago with no replies bookclub

Ordeal of Civility b

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

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 4w ago with 4 replies accelerationism bookclub

Introduction to Yarv

Agreed, with important works you’re not just reading the content but also the spirit of the author. That which is left behind after the words are through. Been feeling a greater pull towards original texts after LLMs, separating what needs to be consumed... 3w ago

Agreed, with importa

Imperium
Has anyone here read F.P. Yockey's Imperium? If so, do you think it is possible to overcome cultural distortion in the current state of affairs and establish a pan-Western Empire? What do you think the world would look like in such a case? posted 2mo ago with 27 replies politics ideology bookclub

Imperium

https://german.yale.edu/sites/default/files/meister-eckhart-maurice-o-c-walshe-bernard-mcginn-the-complete-mystical-works-of-meister-eckhart-the-crossroad-publishing-company-2009.pdf 2mo ago

https://german.yale.

The border patrol shooter was a zizian rationalist. Let's read ziz.
I love edgy philosophy. My general hunch is that the forbidden stuff contains truths that the nomos longhouse doesn't want you to know. Those truths give you important leverage against the established control structures, so it's a key move in the martial a... posted 5mo ago with 6 replies ideology rationality bookclub

The border patrol sh

interesting theory. You're right that rationalists have self-serving motivation to believe intelligence is and ought to be the one true virtue, and have fantasies of omnipotence. I'm less convinced of the particular psychologization of abuse-seeking or rat... 2mo ago

interesting theory.

Tragedy and Hope reading group canceled due to lack of interest
The first reading had some good discussion and I was very satisfied with it. The second reading had only one post that wasn’t from me. The third reading had none.... posted 14mo ago with 5 replies history bookclub learning

Tragedy and Hope rea

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Tragedy and Hope Reading Group, Discussion II
Our reading this time was chapter IV, The Buffer Fringe. Please post in this thread only if you’ve read that chapter.... posted 14mo ago with 3 replies philosophy history bookclub

Tragedy and Hope Rea

I think there is a tendency in parts of the dissident right to look for some "outside" source to blame for woke ideas, and I often wondered whether or not they are correct. But the discussion of the ideology of the Round Table group made it clear to me tha... 14mo ago

I think there is a t

Tragedy and Hope Reading Group, Discussion I
Our reading this time was chapter I, Western Civilization in its World Setting; chapter 2, Western Civilization to 1914; and chapter 3, The Russian Empire to 1917. Please post in this thread only if you’ve read these chapters.... posted 14mo ago with 6 replies politics history bookclub

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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... posted 1y ago with 7 replies bookclub

Reading Group Announ

I'm going to try, but am not sure if I'll be able to keep up with the reading pace due to other commitments. I'll do my best. 1y ago

I'm going to try, bu

The Philosopher's Diet (general dietary wisdom thread)
I've never been tempted to take the peat pill. I get my diet advice from Plato, Tacitus, and ibn Khaldun: the Guardians should eat simple diet of roast meat and avoid allowing Corinthian girlfriends to feed them decadent food. The ancient Germans were stro... posted 1y ago with 4 replies eugenics bookclub

The Philosopher's Di

One of my biggest frustrations is that people are quick to seek nutritional advice when nutritional self-experimentation is incredibly easy.... 1y ago

One of my biggest fr

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... posted 1y ago with 5 replies bookclub

Guide to Carroll Qui

I just bought, but have not yet started, Tragedy and Hope, so that one would have my vote. 1y ago

I just bought, but h

Retrochronic. A primary literature review on the thesis that AI and capitalism are teleologically identical
https://retrochronic.com/ posted 2y ago with 7 replies politics bookclub intelligence

Retrochronic. A prim

As such works go, I would say that New Atlantis (and Bacon in general) is less on the esoteric side. Bacon is pretty clear about his program, and it aligns with the development of technology that actually unfolded, up to a Landian perspective on AI. 1y ago

As such works go, I

first thoughts
In any text, there's something that's left unsaid. And sometimes that unspoken thing isn't even known by the people supposedly behind it. Romance is a lot like this. You don't say everything, and you almost can't say everything. No matter what you say or d... posted 1y ago with 3 replies ideology bookclub learning

first thoughts

Justin Murphy wrote a little book called "Based Deleuze" that I found helpful in arranging Deleuze's thought in a way that I could better relate to my interests.... 1y ago

Justin Murphy wrote

Should we read Foucault?
It seems silly to invite strangers to read with me parts of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) by Michel Foucault. I assume everyone has read it. A foundational text! But I realize I’m basing tha... posted 1y ago with 10 replies politics bookclub

Should we read Fouca

I must say, his methods for resisting power are intended for the mentally ill and homosexuals, if those should be separated, but his conceptions of those categories are different from those popularly used at present, and they can still be adapted for other... 1y ago

I must say, his meth

What are the most important (history, philosophy, etc.) books for the home educator to read?
Think: “things the teacher needs to know so he or she can avoid misleading his or her students”.... posted 1y ago with 14 replies history bookclub education

What are the most im

I wanted to select OP's refinement of the prompt for the newcomers. My interpretation of this prompt is that we want to determine what is important to us, and I think that would start with understanding what the ideological foundations of our current regim... 1y ago

I wanted to select O

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:... posted 1y ago with 37 replies politics eugenics bookclub

Book Club: Selective

Agreed, the cover is what provides security, and provides a barrier to external threats (impeccability). For an internet community, especially considering possible threat models, this sort of barrier is far stronger than material security, say, in the form... 1y ago

Agreed, the cover is

Eight Books To Read (Samo Burja's recommendations for independent study of society)
https://medium.com/@samo.burja/eight-books-to-read-c35804edfbd2 posted 1y ago with no replies sociology bookclub learning

Eight Books To Read

What books are you currently reading?
I'm reading:... posted 1y ago with 10 replies bookclub

What books are you c

I think there's value in that. Despite Foucault being the most frequently cited contemporary philosopher in academia, and there being readymade attacks for abuses of ideas branded Foucauldian, that he's misunderstood. That's my feeling. We can see if it's ... 1y ago

I think there's valu