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 3w ago with 3 replies (collapse hidden) 77 Rationalists should (view hidden) 77 No need to apologize. I am aware of the lulz as a principle of action. "I did it for the lulz, sir". No other reasons needed than that I want to. It is, in fact, all fun and games. In practice and even in society this is under-appreciated. But what I'm doi... 2w ago (collapse hidden) 44 No need to apologize (view hidden) 44
How would we educate a young prince? In another thread we considered whether a more intelligent population would have fewer social problems. Some comments brought out the intriguing idea that for matters of the functionality of society, structure and regime and therefore education may matter ... posted 3mo ago with 10 replies (collapse hidden) 1111 How would we educate (view hidden) 1111 Good read. I've noticed how I'm drawn away from academia that has gone vapid and mainstream towards religion that has a core group of people refining the craft. 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 33 Good read. I've noti (view hidden) 33
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 3mo ago with 8 replies (collapse hidden) 1010 Against 'State of Na (view hidden) 1010 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. 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 22 The “savage” is not (view hidden) 22