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The Slice of Life Mindset
Consider a slice-of-life anime and what it chooses to romanticize. Commuting to work, preparing a meal, reading a book, drinking some tea, watching a movie. The characters are typically unambitious, the opposite of a shonen character who sacrifices everyth... posted 3d ago with 1 reply 11 11

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I like this wholesomeposting. Interesting you connect Ayn Rand to slice-of-life philosophy. It's a sort of lifestyle wu-wei: just be clear on your code of values and try to live it as directly as possible, and refuse to apologize or compromise. To your poi... 2d ago 6 6

I like this wholesom 6 6

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

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

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Perennial Science: Peer-to-Peer-Review in God as First Criterion of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty (February 17th, 2025)
Abstract ... posted 2mo ago with 8 replies 7 7

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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. ... 2mo ago 4 4

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Supercoordination: A Specific Strategy
How do we get there from here? How might we grow pockets of supercoordination even as AI rapidly becomes more capable and the people behind it consolidate their power, proactively countering this precise type of threat? ... posted 2mo ago with 4 replies 6 6

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A supermemory must be maximally resilient. DNA has lasted four billion years so far and seems poised for a couple billion more. ... 2mo ago 1 1

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Radical political technology
JABowery is a pioneer of computer & space technology, but the last couple of years he's been thinking about how technology can allow humans to set up new forms of governance, operating from the level of an individual and scaling up (libertarian-conservativ... posted 4mo ago with no replies 1 1

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The Jocks and the Nerds, allied against the Theater-kids.
"Warriors" and "Merchants" need to ally against the "Priests" - that would be the read from the perspective of Gaetano Mosca to our current situation. ... posted 5mo ago with 7 replies 6 6

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OK, so that clarifies what you were thinking. ... 4mo ago 2 2

OK, so that clarifie 2 2

This Thing Is Not Us. The imperative of cognitive separatism from the global american empire
I'm told "we" have a vital interest in defending Taiwan from China. Perhaps we do. Japan certainly seems to. I do like Japan. But then again, "we" also seem to have a vital interest in not quite letting Japan off the leash. I hear they are months from deve... posted 2y ago with 9 replies 20 20

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The Grimm Brothers saw language as the repository of a people's culture. And so linguistic spheres of influence have effectively become cultural spheres of influence. I don't think the issue here is necessarily the size of the speech community, but rather ... 5mo ago 4 4

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Soft Ware for Hard Power
I learned Photoshop as an autistic youth who wanted to make logos and background graphics for friends' gaming YouTube channels. Thousands of hours of skill development there transferred to every graphic design software I've come across since (Illustrator, ... posted 1y ago with 16 replies 18 18

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One of my old friends from Berkeley wanted to design a new power supply for an amp. He designed it from scratch, used open source PCB design software and had it printed for him by a company specializing in such things. ... 8mo ago 4 4

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Towards an Illegible Computational Medium of Exchange
You cannot be sovereign if you do not control your medium of exchange, if your enemies can insert themselves into every transaction and tax it or block it at will. ... posted 11mo ago with 12 replies 17 17

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There had been a thread on high software profit margins, which has since disappeared off sofiechan. The OP on hackernews might still be relevant (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904339): ... 11mo ago 2 2

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How should we do startups to retain teleological independence and win real power?
If one has ambition, talent, friends, and a good idea, one can build a successful company in Silicon Valley. But why? Money is nice; you ascend the bourgeois class tournament and get finer luxuries, more respect, better mates, better schools, better friend... posted 11mo ago with 17 replies 14 14

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Greed: discourage attention seeking baitposts. Lust: automated porn detection and deletion, especially anything illegal. Pride: guard against group narcissism, including among ourselves. Sloth: a built-in reputation time-decay? Envy: encourage individual s... 11mo ago 5 5

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How to Found a Great House (mythpilot.substack.com) posted 2y ago with 16 replies 21 21

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There are some interesting ideas about how to implement societal scalability around similar tenets: ... 1y ago 1 1

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