/ideology/

Uptrust. Another alt-social app designed to foster great conversations
This seems interesting. Someone linked it to me. Has anyone used it or know anything about it? It seems like there are multiple parties thinking in serious ways about what we might call the “alt social media problem” and how to design really great cult... posted 4d ago with 3 replies

Uptrust. Another alt

I believe strongly in the inevitability of new alt-media spaces and digital enclaves that cater to specific scenes. Referring to the failure of past players, I think this has much less to do with network effects and far more with the fact that none of them... 15h ago

I believe strongly i

What can we learn from Chinese political theory?
A lot of threads that I saw focused on the economic differences between China and the US. However, China also seems to have its own vibrant community of political theorist, trying to synthesize something new from Confucianism, Marxism and Liberalism (see h... posted 2w ago with 1 reply

What can we learn fr

Nice post, these are the right questions to be asking. Mao definitely cooked up something new by running a version of Marxism that worked and inventing novel military strategy. At the same time though, I think 90% of the picture can be described by the CCP... 2w ago

Nice post, these are

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 4w ago with 27 replies

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 3w ago

https://german.yale.

The End of Strategy
The collapse Yarvin, Thiel, Vassar, Burja, Tivy, Anders, and Tallinn saw coming was real. ... posted 3w ago with 7 replies

The End of Strategy

Collapse is not the end. Collapse is the winter. ... 3w ago

Collapse is not the

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 4mo ago with 23 replies

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... 1mo ago

Tieing it back to th

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 7mo ago with 21 replies

Should You Hide Your

This is great. Thanks. 1mo ago

This is great. Thank

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 4mo ago with 6 replies

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... 1mo ago

interesting theory.

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 3mo ago with 5 replies

Rationalists should

am I supposed to envy this? 2mo ago

am I supposed to env

Ideology is more fundamental than *just* post-hoc rationalization
Mosca argued that every ruling class justifies itself with a political formula : an ideological narrative that legitimizes power. Raw force alone is unsustainable; a widely accepted narrative makes dominance appear natural. Internally, shared ideology unif... posted 3mo ago with 10 replies

Ideology is more fun

I think even acts of intuitive human intelligence are often difficult to explain to other people; perhaps the metaphor of Cassandra is a good reminder how genius is often recognized far too late: ... 3mo ago

I think even acts of

should we be anti-principle?
clickbait title but maybe you can help me out on this one. ... posted 4mo ago with 5 replies

should we be anti-pr

Thats true for principles as zero sum political tools, but the positive sum questions requires principles as leap-of-faith on strategy that must actually work on its own terms. 4mo ago

Thats true for princ

Against Yarvin's Absolute Monarchy
I recently watched the Yarvin interview on NYT. I want to argue against Yarvin’s position on monarchy. Yarvin makes his typical argument in favor of monarchy: ‘look around you, everything here in this room is built by a monarchy’ and ‘NYT is a 5th ... posted 4mo ago with 7 replies

Against Yarvin's Abs

Monarchy in Yarvin's sense (per OP) need not be hereditary and typically is not. ... 4mo ago

Monarchy in Yarvin's

How a more intelligent/educated population would change the system
I have been thinking a lot about how a more educated population could both become just economically richer or understand/realize the flaws of the system and so create a better one based on less exploitation (as the current one) of less intelligent /fortuna... posted 5mo ago with 9 replies

How a more intellige

The Chynese don’t want global government, that is a mischaracterization of American boomers that believe everyone thinks like them 4mo ago

The Chynese don’t wa

Is independent thinking still possible in an environment where escaping social media ecochamber is nearly impossible?
Is it possible to be an independent thinker in general? ... posted 4mo ago with 6 replies

Is independent think

Independence is tough as always. The time before social media, many too didn't have independent thinking, just there wasn't a platform to make it evident. ... 4mo ago

Independence is toug

How did Effective Altruism get so big?
I disagree with many of the views behind EA, but I've been fascinated by how they managed to make institutions, build a scene, start companies, NGOs, get funding, etc. ... posted 11mo ago with 14 replies

How did Effective Al

Right, you can't serious probe and weigh these questions without getting into questions of ends that are ultimately not utilitarianism. ... 11mo ago

Right, you can't ser

How do you make yourself a Nazi?
“1) Wherever there is impersonality and chance, introduce conspiracy, lucidity, and malice. Look for enemies everywhere, ensuring that they are such that one can simultaneously envy and condemn them. Proliferate new subjectivities; racial subjects, natio... posted 14mo ago with 10 replies

How do you make your

The better known version of this thesis is Burnham's Managerial State, which many think would more precisely be called the administrative state. That some version of this is true is pretty uncontroversial in our circles. Calling it "fascism" is a kind of p... 14mo ago

The better known ver

The Post-Liberal Synthesis. The founding essay of the Governance Futurism project. (www.palladiummag.com) posted 1y ago with 3 replies

The Post-Liberal Syn

Yes. "Post-Liberal" rapidly became a useless label colonized by insincere pseudo-movements. ... 1y ago

Yes. "Post-Liberal"

Nietzsche - Homer's Contest
https://archive.org/details/NietzscheHomersContest/mode/2up ... posted 1y ago with 5 replies

Nietzsche - Homer's

Yeah there's a phase shift with Plato to philosophy as a self-conscious program and type, with a politics. Alamariu points out tyranny and proto-philosophy existed for a while pre-plato, but true philosophy only really comes into being with xenophon and th... 1y ago

Yeah there's a phase

Who is Portugal For? (and what's the point of democracy anymore?) (www.palladiummag.com) posted 1y ago with 12 replies

Who is Portugal For?

Indeed. The difference between what seems possible according to the world of ideas and what actually is possible is potentially large and always the essence of the game. This is why I'm not sure we can put too much stock in the "it can't reference or be mi... 1y ago

Indeed. The differen

Six Sufficiencies of "Religions"
I really wanted to like Religions. There were philosophical cores there that no one else was anywhere close to. They were ambitious, elite, curious, systematic, and utterly unashamed. That's what drew many of us in. ... posted 1y ago with 11 replies

Six Sufficiencies of

I will reformulate your six points as I see them from the Nietzschean perspective, especially as articulated by Dr Alamariu: ... 1y ago

I will reformulate y

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

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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