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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 4mo ago with 7 replies sociology coordination sovereignty

Supercoordination: A

Sure, I wanted to continue the discussion in >>2513 which this thread was branched from. The message was something along the lines of 'this thread is too long or your account is too new, post elsewhere first'. 3w ago

Sure, I wanted to co

Commentary vs Plans
Most discussions on the right are still largely bogged down by targeting what the left does wrong instead of formulating actual plans. Commentary vs Plans.... posted 4w ago with 11 replies politics sovereignty

Commentary vs Plans

Some organizations should be reformed, others deleted. The macro trend is metastasizing bureaucracy---we simply have *more* of everything to the point of sclerosis. Cities with 100s of committees, insolvent states, uncountable federal agencies. If we have ... 3w ago

Some organizations s

Patchwork city states ?
With State capacity decline and movement of decentralization how probable is it that we see something like sov corp city states emerging ? First through corporations providing private security (I think this is already the case in Brazil to some extent) eve... posted 2mo ago with 6 replies technology accelerationism sovereignty

Patchwork city state

We see it already with today's tech companies, to an extent: the US government shuts down nuclear power plants while GOOGL and MSFT plan on building their own nuclear power plants, facilitating their respective AGI plans.... 1mo ago

We see it already wi

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 2mo ago with 2 replies lifestyle sovereignty

The Slice of Life Mi

Yes. I do a few different things that help turn boring moments into extraordinary ones. One is to notice and thank God for everything. The small bird perched on a branch, the sun peaking over rooftops, or a nice drive in the car. It doesn't matter how ever... 2mo ago

Yes. I do a few diff

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). (en.wikipedia.org) posted 3mo ago with 1 reply politics sovereignty

Poul Anderson's _The

Poul Anderson is good generally. He worked broadly across science fiction and fantasy.... 3mo ago

Poul Anderson is goo

Perennial Science: Peer-to-Peer-Review in God as First Criterion of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty (February 17th, 2025)
Abstract... (ark.page) posted 4mo ago with 8 replies technology sovereignty

Perennial Science: P

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.... 4mo ago

God is our fundament

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 6mo ago with no replies technology meta sovereignty

Radical political te

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 politics sovereignty

This Thing Is Not Us

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 ... 7mo ago

The Grimm Brothers s

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 technology sovereignty

Soft Ware for Hard P

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.... 10mo ago

One of my old friend

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 13mo ago with 12 replies technology sovereignty

Towards an Illegible

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):... 13mo ago

There had been a thr

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 13mo ago with 17 replies sovereignty startups

How should we do sta

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... 13mo ago

Greed: discourage at

How to Found a Great House
https://mythpilot.substack.com/p/how-to-found-a-great-house posted 2y ago with 16 replies sovereignty

How to Found a Great

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

There are some inter