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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 3w 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... 1d ago

You are right about

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 3w 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.... 1w ago

This 100%, but also

Accelerationism
Has anyone read a lot of materials on Accelerationism that wants to have a good discussion on pros and cons of this theory? posted 5mo ago with 23 replies ideology gnon

Accelerationism

Tieing it back to the topic in OP, energy rate density is closely related to a lot of the thermodynamics that are used and abused by accelerationists. In many ways that Chaisson article I shared is accelerationist through and through. And on a personal lev... 2mo ago

Tieing it back to th

Will future super-intelligence be formatted as selves, or something else?
The Landian paradigm establishes that orthogonalist strong rationality (intelligence securely subordinated to fixed purpose) is not possible. Therefore no alignment, no singletons, no immortality, mere humans are doomed, etc etc. Therefore meta-darwinian e... posted 3mo ago with 14 replies rationality intelligence gnon

Will future super-in

Best of luck with the epicycles.... 2mo ago

Best of luck with th

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

Some people won't believe in the inherent goodness of existence until it's been autistically proven to them with English philosophizing a hundred times over. That's fine. For the rest of us, we don't need to be persuaded of the inherent goodness of existen... 3mo ago

Some people won't be

Rationalists should embrace will-to-power as an existential value fact
Imagine a being who systematically questions and can rewrite their beliefs and values to ensure legitimate grounding. I think humans can and should do more of this, but you might more easily imagine an AI that can read and write its own source code and bel... posted 4mo ago with 5 replies ideology rationality gnon

Rationalists should

am I supposed to envy this? 3mo ago

am I supposed to env

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 3mo ago with 1 reply gnon metaphysics

It is the will of Gn

God willing, we shall seize what has been granted to us. 3mo ago

God willing, we shal

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

Michael Levin actually compares the developmental process, which has to cope with all manner of error, insult, variation, and adversarial action, to a variational autoencoder, so it's not like we're extremely far off from the right questions, but the cultu... 4mo ago

Michael Levin actual

Breeding octopuses
Our last common ancestor with cephalopods dates back 600 million years. For reference, dinosaurs roamed Earth only 252–66 million years ago.... posted 5mo ago with 5 replies eugenics gnon

Breeding octopuses

It's self-organization that's the magic of life, not reason or intelligence.... 4mo ago

It's self-organizati

Against 'State of Nature'
Something BAP mentioned recently and that I see a lot of these days is a tendency to puzzle over what man was like in a 'state of nature'. It is weak thinking and should be discarded. Two prominent examples of this I see invoked are evopsych's "on the ance... posted 6mo ago with 8 replies gnon

Against 'State of Na

The “savage” is not an archetype of innocence but a primitive codebase—feral algorithms of survival that replicate themselves endlessly, unburdened by the illusions of transcendence. 5mo ago

The “savage” is not

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 7mo ago with 21 replies rationality gnon metaphysics

How I came to believ

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. 6mo ago

Thank you. Sounds li

Will to Think on Xenosystems
https://web.archive.org/web/20170720012659/http://www.xenosystems.net/will-to-think/ posted 7mo ago with 4 replies rationality gnon

Will to Think on Xen

Who is that? Sounds like something from the Thucydides. 7mo ago

Who is that? Sounds