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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 3mo ago with 23 replies 10 10

Accelerationism 10 10

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... 6d ago 5 5

Tieing it back to th 5 5

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 1mo ago with 14 replies 15 15

Will future super-in 15 15

Best of luck with the epicycles. ... 3w ago 6 6

Best of luck with th 6 6

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 1mo ago with 3 replies 12 12

Xenohumanism Against 12 12

We need a school of true anthropology. 3w ago 2 2

We need a school of 2 2

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 4w ago with 5 replies 11 11

Dissolving vs. Survi 11 11

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... 3w ago 2 2

Some people won't be 2 2

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 2mo ago with 5 replies 8 8

Rationalists should 8 8

am I supposed to envy this? 4w ago 3 3

am I supposed to env 3 3

Poul Anderson's _The High Crusade_, good book for the "human conquest of the stars" theme.
In which a Medieval English Baron establishes a holy galactic empire (with themes of righteous rebellion, but it is against xenos, and so less antinomian than when human peasants pretend to self-determination). posted 1mo ago with 1 reply 5 5

Poul Anderson's _The 5 5

Poul Anderson is good generally. He worked broadly across science fiction and fantasy. ... 1mo ago 2 2

Poul Anderson is goo 2 2

It is the will of Gnon that we shall fill the stars and subdue them. Jim solves the great filter, rejects copernican principle. (blog.reaction.la) posted 1mo ago with 1 reply 10 10

It is the will of Gn 10 10

God willing, we shall seize what has been granted to us. 1mo ago 5 5

God willing, we shal 5 5

Agency. On Machine Intelligence and Worm Wisdom by Insurrealist (insurrealist.substack.com) posted 2mo ago with 2 replies 9 9

Agency. On Machine I 9 9

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... 2mo ago 3 3

Michael Levin actual 3 3

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 3mo ago with 5 replies 10 10

Breeding octopuses 10 10

It's self-organization that's the magic of life, not reason or intelligence. ... 3mo ago 1 1

It's self-organizati 1 1

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 4mo ago with 8 replies 11 11

Against 'State of Na 11 11

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. 4mo ago 2 2

The “savage” is not 2 2

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 5mo ago with 21 replies 19 19

How I came to believ 19 19

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. 5mo ago 3 3

Thank you. Sounds li 3 3

Will to Think on Xenosystems (web.archive.org) posted 5mo ago with 4 replies 6 6

Will to Think on Xen 6 6

Who is that? Sounds like something from the Thucydides. 5mo ago 3 3

Who is that? Sounds 3 3