/rationality/

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 1w ago with 2 replies 5 5

Rationalists should 5 5

I like your OP post, so I'll apologize in advance for what I'm about to do ... 16m ago 2 2

I like your OP post, 2 2

Not Superintelligence; Supercoordination
Everyone seems to be trying to arms race their way to superintelligence these days. I have a different idea: supercoordination. ... posted 1mo ago with 34 replies 17 17

Not Superintelligenc 17 17

Memory is requisite to supercoordination, no doubt. Tho my gut is that the key to the first visceral supercoordination system will be synthesis over that memory. ... 5d ago 1 1

Memory is requisite 1 1

Rat King 1518. Insurrealist takes on Scott Alexander's "Moloch" (insurrealist.substack.com) posted 2w ago with 5 replies 11 11

Rat King 1518. Insur 11 11

Moloch is certainly used as a pretext for hubris against God (as is typical of all self-righteous Ivan Karamazov types that only end up making matters worse for the very people they claim to stand in defense of), but the concept is more limited. Indeed, it... 2w ago 4 4

Moloch is certainly 4 4

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 2mo ago with 3 replies 6 6

The border patrol sh 6 6

(Re Punching Evil) I don't get the point of these people acting like they're anodyne liberals who just don't like nazis. Why lie to yourself like that? He's acting like he's some Popperist but he clearly believes in something deeply revolutionary. Nothing ... 1mo ago 5 5

(Re Punching Evil) I 5 5

should we be anti-principle?
clickbait title but maybe you can help me out on this one. ... posted 2mo ago with 5 replies 7 7

should we be anti-pr 7 7

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. 1mo ago 4 4

Thats true for princ 4 4

Looking Beyond the Veil. Ben LT's Substack. On the esoteric mysticism involved in true science. (www.benlandautaylor.com) posted 2mo ago with 3 replies 10 10

Looking Beyond the V 10 10

A state that rewards and protects the farmers (like myself) is going to do better than a state that protects the thieves who claim they did the farming themselves. ... 2mo ago 4 4

A state that rewards 4 4

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 2mo ago with 6 replies 9 9

Is independent think 9 9

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. ... 2mo ago 3 3

Independence is toug 3 3

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 4mo ago with 35 replies 12 12 1 1

Physicalism and Ques 12 12 1 1

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... 2mo ago 3 3

The crux seems to be 3 3

Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out (nothinghuman.substack.com) posted 2mo ago with 4 replies 10 10

Shallow Feedback Hol 10 10

I wonder how we could make sofiechan better for deep engagement. Ive already noticed the algorithm punishing people for getting into obscure one-on-one but actually valuable discourses. I dont like that and will probably be changing it. ... 2mo ago 4 4

I wonder how we coul 4 4

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 4mo ago with 21 replies 17 17

How I came to believ 17 17

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. 3mo ago 3 3

Thank you. Sounds li 3 3