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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 11mo ago with 23 replies received rationality nietzsche

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As a heuristic, any decision that seems binary (should I hide) is mis-framed. The question is, what is the skillful way to live in full integrity?... 11mo ago received

As a heuristic, any received

I am of course deliberately invoking the *chan tradition by using such language. It’s a choice. When i write or speak in other contexts, i hide that particular power level. But it does not reveal all.... 11mo ago received

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I read a few chapters of Evola's Revolt Against the Modern World and he talks of traditionalist leaders being imbued with the spirit of the other world in their rites and actions.... 1w ago received

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Horrorism vs Vitalism
I am pleased to see a holy war developing in the comments of "Applied Gnon Theology" between two Landian factions I will dub "orthodox horrorism" and my own "gnonic vitalism". Nothing is quite so productive as conflict, so I expect that whatever comes out ... posted 1mo ago with 29 replies received gnon accelerationism nietzsche

Horrorism vs Vitalis received

Yup. Landian techno-nihilism is interesting and fun for us big brain people to think and theorycel and chat about, but ultimately it's not prescriptive, so its usefulness is limited.... 1mo ago received

Yup. Landian techno- received

Fair enough. The "self-evident" vs "leap of faith" debate is missing the point. The real thing is our disagreement about whether the instincts need any higher framework of justification. I see where you are coming from and I agree that the instincts causal... 1mo ago received

Fair enough. The "se received

doesn't seem so, though perhaps https://cyclonotrope.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/unconditional-accelerationism-as-antipraxis/ gives a more nuanced picture here:... 3w ago received

doesn't seem so, tho received

Applied Gnon Theology
Nick Land crystalized an important current of the English theological tradition with one word: Gnon. Gnon stands in for Jefferson's "Nature or Nature's God", acronymized (NoNG), reversed (GNoN), and reified (Gnon). The concept is itself a stand-in for unce... posted 2mo ago with 28 replies received gnon accelerationism nietzsche

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I take Gnon to be the highest level pattern implicit in the laws of physics, but not practically derivable from them.... 1mo ago received

I take Gnon to be th received

As I mentioned in the other thread a serious worldview must be backed by more than mere assertion. On what basis and to what extent is group self-interest a valid principle? If we're not caring to actually back this up and enforce worldview rigor around an... 1mo ago received

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What form of life does nature consider highest?
Empirically, literal yeast life wins the contest of sheer biomass. The untouchable prokaryotic bacterial masses that recycle the world's biological waste out-masses everything else. On that theme we're also soundly beaten by hive insects like ants and such... posted 2mo ago with 9 replies received eugenics gnon nietzsche

What form of life do received

More pointedly, i dont think higher man or homeric man or anything like that is about absolute competence or anything like that. Its an interesting lens to think through but the reality is more about types, and types are about niche. Homeric man is dead be... 2mo ago received

More pointedly, i do received

Well the point of OP is that there is no natural or physical favored concept of higher life. That said there is a sort of notion of depth of the overall stack of life, the overall complexity. But that places parasites and cancers “higher” on the stack ... 2mo ago received

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Vitalist/BAP/Nietzsche Metaphysics Question
BAP - drawing from Nietzsche et al., but perhaps more explicitly - discusses an “innate intelligence” in nature. Some kind of conscious (or at least intentional) entity with its own ends and purposes.... posted 2mo ago with 5 replies received philosophy nietzsche

Vitalist/BAP/Nietzsc received

As one of the harder "materialists" around here, the vitalists are right there is an innate intelligence in nature. Start with Darwin: the results of the mutation-selection organism-design process that we call evolution look pretty intelligent. We can deny... 2mo ago received

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The Future of Paganism and Christianity / Lost Gods
I want to try a new book club. We begin with this documentary featuring Tom Rowsell that pairs nicely with our recent "true religion of the coming civilization" thread: https://sofiechan.com/p/3110... (www.youtube.com) posted 2mo ago with 7 replies received gnon bookclub nietzsche

The Future of Pagani received

That's a very Whiggish view of human ideas. It's also wrong (to an extent) since there were plenty of pre-Christian pagan philosophers. Hellenist polytheists invented philosophy as a concept, although many of the ancient Greek influential philosophers did ... 2mo ago received

That's a very Whiggi received

Rowsell is a reconstructionist and I believe leans Platonist in his theology, for what it's worth. Reconstructionism, at least in a British context, inevitably feels at least somewhat like LARPing because ancient Anglo-Saxon culture does not have much in c... 2mo ago received

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BAP: The Right of the Stronger and the Better
BAP is sometimes obscurantist. In this essay, which only appeared in print prior, he is not obscuring anything. If one had any questions about the power core of his program, here it is on a silver platter. I personally tend to think the formation of new st... (www.bronzeagepervert.yoga) posted 2mo ago with 22 replies received politics eugenics nietzsche

BAP: The Right of th received

Precisely. LKW also masterfully stayed within the unwritten limits, thereby cementing his impact and legacy.... 2mo ago received

Precisely. LKW also received

We know what BAP means by "the right of the stronger and better" just like we know what Sam Hyde means by "real Americans", but that doesn't make it coherent. I'll apply that same distinction I used in >>3385 between the truth and the political formulas he... 2mo ago received

We know what BAP mea received

“And guess what, the US/WEF consensus generally regards him as a hero. This is completely load-bearing--it's why Singapore is well integrated into the Western world, which is the only way for a modern small state to be prosperous and reasonably sovereign... 2mo ago received

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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 4mo ago with 27 replies received philosophy gnon nietzsche

Is Unitarianism the received

For present purposes, I'll pass over theological debates about Christian revelation, and simply note the sociological fact that actually existing Unitarianism is pure shitlibery. In fact it's among the most shitlib of all Christian-adjacent configurations.... 4mo ago received

For present purposes received

I was very moved by this post and so I went to my local Unitarian church and explained to them all that we have discussed here. They called the police on me. 3mo ago received

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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... 3mo ago received

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When does a people become "historical"? Can we achieve a Greek-like stance as Nietzsche believed late 19th C. Germans could?
Inspired by the final section of Nietzsche's Untimely Meditation titled "On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life".... posted 4mo ago with 9 replies received history bookclub nietzsche

When does a people b received

In the context of Nietzsche's essay, "historicality" refers precisely to when a civilization/people emerges from acting freely, or, uninhibited by a variety of historical phenomena—ancestral worship, rigid moral tradition, and so forth. Perhaps in other ... 3mo ago received

In the context of Ni received

Luther on Retroactive Prayer — Can you pray for someone in the past?
I was thinking about praying backwards in time when I was praying that something that had already happened, but that I didn’t know the outcome of. I think it was someone else’s driving test.... posted 5mo ago with 4 replies received nietzsche

Luther on Retroactiv received

FWIW, the Catholic idea of prayers for the dead is that it is only applicable to souls in purgatory, i.e., souls of those who died in a state of grace, and so are destined for heaven, but are still in need of spiritual purgation. The prayers help to facili... 5mo ago received

FWIW, the Catholic i received

How are you promoting real culture?
From "Schopenhauer as educator"... posted 5mo ago with 1 reply received nietzsche

How are you promotin received

what a great quote. I've been very struck by the idea of the philosopher, not always under that name, for a long time. The philosopher is the being that strives to comprehend his own nature, the law of nature, and his role in the cosmic story, and achieves... 5mo ago received

what a great quote. received

Perennial Science: Peer-to-Peer-Review in God as First Criterion of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty (February 17th, 2025)
Abstract... (ark.page) posted 7mo ago with 8 replies received gnon nietzsche

Perennial Science: P received

God is our fundamental reality, but not necessarily in this life. i think pantheism results in impiety, hubris and absurdity. But I'm not opposed to the idea that God is the fundamental reality in distinction to our relative reality.... 7mo ago received

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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 9mo ago with 7 replies received gnon nietzsche

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Correcting this mistake is nontrivial. To simply cease the war on faith and superstition outright is to cease a major part of higher thought, and to give up our faith in the power of thought which has served us so well so far. It doesn't pass basic scrutin... 8mo ago received

Correcting this mist received

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. 8mo ago received

The “savage” is not received

Physicalism and Questions of Identity
Suppose your consciousness was transferred into someone else's body, the rationalist asked me. I asked what does that even mean? I am an entirely physical being. What exactly is being swapped over? I'm not going to evaluate a "but what if you were haitian"... posted 10mo ago with 35 replies received rationality nietzsche

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Yes, this is what I meant.... 8mo ago received

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The crux seems to be this “bucket” you want to put different things in together or not. If the cpu architecture is different but the emulated program and behavior are the same (modulo timing, power use, etc), why does there need to be any canonical sen... 8mo ago received

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Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions by Eliezer Yudkowsky
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6i3zToomS86oj9bS6/mysterious-answers-to-mysterious-questions posted 9mo ago with 17 replies received rationality nietzsche

Mysterious Answers t received

You don't know that. It could be that Gnon did need to create consciousness. It could be that not only do p-zombies not exist, but they could not exist. It could be that whenever you have a being that does all the things humans do, down to a fine-grained l... 9mo ago received

You don't know that. received

I agree whole heartedly with this anon. "Gnon created consciousness" because the kind of animals we are and needed to be to fill the open niches in the world needed to be conscious in an entirely natural and straightforward way. Consciousness is necessary ... 9mo ago received

I agree whole hearte received

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 10mo ago with 21 replies received gnon rationality nietzsche

How I came to believ received

I don't think it's coincidental that all successful and long-lasting belief systems conceive of man as primarily an instrument that achieves teleological fulfillment through adherence to divine will. Even when I was a kid high on the crack cocaine of Richa... 10mo ago received

I don't think it's c received

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. 9mo ago received

Thank you. Sounds li received

Physicalism vs "Existence"
Many people seem to think there's something to the idea of the "existence" of the world, but I have come to question this. To be clear this is connected to classic questions like "why is there something rather than nothing", simulation argument, Boltzmann ... posted 10mo ago with 3 replies received nietzsche

Physicalism vs "Exis received

Simulation hypothesis and multiverse theories do not assert that the universe doesn't exist, but rather that it has a particular structure, even if one different from more typical intuitions. They do not bear on the question of "whether the world exists." 10mo ago received

Simulation hypothesi received

Can Rationality Support Healthy Morality?
I went to church yesterday with another sofiechanner. It was nice to see a healthy community full of normal young people who live with gratitude and hope. The sermon incisively applied their worldview to support the moral discipline necessary for healthy l... posted 11mo ago with 12 replies received rationality nietzsche

Can Rationality Supp received

fwiw the LW-rationalists have done a very good job of making the sort of participatory high-trust community that it's often claimed can only be created around a nucleus of formal religious worship. Like everything else they do, they did this in a very anal... 11mo ago received

fwiw the LW-rational received

Yes i mean a morality that basicaly takes account of the modern scientific cosmology and biology, and then starts reasoning about ends. But in a nietzschean way (examining them first of all as natural phenomena to be explained and analyzed) before taking t... 11mo ago received

Yes i mean a moralit received

Going to bat for "hard materialism"
The saying goes that any discussion eventually becomes about Hitler, but over in the blood and soil thread, it's become about metaphysics. Specifically the valuation of a quantitative worldview, or even "hard materialism", relative to a more holistic quali... posted 1y ago with 45 replies received rationality computing nietzsche

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I agree there is a vast chasm, especially right now. In particular, biolife is actually existing self-replicating self-repairing adaptive nanotechnology, and industrial computers are not. What properties are you referring to?... 1y ago received

I agree there is a v received

Cells have a self-forming boundary while proteins participate in forming that boundary. I'm not sure cells are in fact the bottom though.... 1y ago received

Cells have a self-fo received

Soil and Blood: A Defense of Magical Dirt Theory
Consider the development of a particular man under two different ecosystem inputs.... posted 1y ago with 39 replies received politics eugenics nietzsche

Soil and Blood: A De received

To be clear, I'm not denying that there are hard materialists, some them quite loud. What I'm describing as false is that the bad conclusions actually follow from mathematical physics. I'm objecting to your attribution of them to... 1y ago received

To be clear, I'm not received

The Structure of Exoteric Ideology
Zero HP Lovecraft wrote a series of post called "Toward a Functionalist Understanding of Religion" that culminated in a proposal for a "Christian-Nietzschean" synthesis. I'm not much interested in the latter. However, in the first post in the series, he sk... posted 1y ago with 5 replies received philosophy nietzsche

The Structure of Exo received

I like this reframing. It's very much in the spirit of what I was thinking when I (re)posted the reference. 1y ago received

I like this reframin received

Nietzsche - Homer's Contest
Some of you may have already seen this piece; I think it’s worth revisiting following the book club. In it Nietzsche offers more details on the relation between tyrant/warrior and philosopher/artist in the ancient Greek polis. It’s another of his early... posted 1y ago with 5 replies received philosophy nietzsche

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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 received

Yeah there's a phase received

Seven Heresies of "Rationality"
I really wanted to like the Lesswrong rationality project. There was a philosophical core there that no one else was anywhere close to. It was ambitious, elite, curious, systematic, and utterly unashamed. That's what drew many of us in.... posted 2y ago with 25 replies received rationality nietzsche

Seven Heresies of "R received

That would have made him a Christian. Might as well imagine a world in which the lion lies down with the lamb. 2y ago received

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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 2y ago with 11 replies received rationality nietzsche

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I will reformulate your six points as I see them from the Nietzschean perspective, especially as articulated by Dr Alamariu:... 2y ago received

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on facing death
how should one face death? the two common/standard answers i see are to ignore death entirely, which i think is the atheistic standard, with doctors avoiding being frank about a patient's death and schools never really bringing it up, and few people thinki... posted 2y ago with 17 replies received philosophy nietzsche

on facing death received

I think when i was a bugman atheist I was secretly terrified of death, that was the root cause of extropianism/transhumanism/radical life extensionism... it's just fear of death.... 2y ago received

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