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Nature Onto Man
Look o' Last Men at the land of your predecessors who lived and died on the Po Valley, River Thames, or the Mongolian Steppe. A land that produced titans who roamed across the earth, desecrated populations, loved life, and produced beautiful cultures. What... posted 3w ago with 10 replies received life supercoordination

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Asks the DMV lady, her voice dripping with smug sass.... 2w ago received

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Wars do more than just infrastructure damage. They psychologically influence populations by forming an us vs them mentality, retaining some values instead of throwing them away, etc. 1w ago received

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Democracy After the Bitter Lesson: Advisory Voting
Democracy has problems: the masses are low-information, voting systems get captured by parties and perverse incentives, voting becomes crudely ethnic or handout oriented, and giving everyone a slice of power just opens things up to manipulation and sybil a... posted 2mo ago with 10 replies received technology computing supercoordination

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I think "projecting the wisdom of the crowd onto the vector of the sovereign's will" is beautifully put, but I'd love you to justify your core narrowing assumption a bit more - the question of sovereignty is the important one! Democracy without sovereignty... 2mo ago received

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the backend is non-anonymous. You put in your email, it creates a persistent account that accumulates your reputation. I will at some point make it so identity data is destroyed once the reputation data is accumulated. But with occasional changes to the ar... 2mo ago received

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Amphetaminutes and cybernetic lock-in
The time-pressure and increased tempo of modern life is wildly under-discussed. Insurrealist has done a beautiful job of breaking through and laying down some interesting observations.... (insurrealist.substack.com) posted 2mo ago with no replies received life supercoordination

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Elon Musks Reddit Retard Rebellion: parallels between White Russian political stupidity and the modern right
https://www.theconundrumcluster.com/p/elon-musks-reddit-retard-rebellion posted 2mo ago with 7 replies received history supercoordination

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Wordy and pretty mid article. The sort of wordcel political commentariat slop I dislike reading. But there are always interesting questions amongst the slop that we can continue discussing. Here's one: does Elon's outburst deserve harsh political punishmen... 2mo ago received

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I'd be happy to take the opposite side of that bet. A far more obvious explanation is that Elon is a bit autistic, and while very high IQ and high energy, he's also lacking in practical wisdom in many areas, including politics.... 2mo ago received

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Towards a supercoordination protocol
Inspired by >>2513 and >>2589 I have been thinking about what a software implementation of a supercoordination protocol might look like. Specifically, this is based on the signal/impact model presented in >>2570. I would be interested to hear what other an... posted 3mo ago with 4 replies received computing supercoordination

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Hard agree. That remains an unsolved problem for me. I imagine a world where that process is semi-automated via APIs -- as a crude example, maybe liking a tweet automatically registers a signal/impact loop with a very small positive weight.... 3mo ago received

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The Megaproject Economy
Raises the question: what’s the closest human civilization has come to the megaproject economy? Pre-industrial societies had the mindset of distributing wealth to society scale projects. But they lacked industrial capabilities, so their “megaprojects�... (www.palladiummag.com) posted 3mo ago with 11 replies received history economics supercoordination

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What explicitly happened is that Western elites decided on a different megaproject: global race communism. The "Great Society" and "Global Development." That is where all this wasted money is going. Today, you can call this a political arrangement that can... 3mo ago received

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As a matter of historical fact, the communism part came first, then later the race part was added, and then the global part was added. 3mo ago received

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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 7mo ago with 7 replies received computing supercoordination

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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'. 3mo ago received

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The Political Capital Savings Plan
I met Gallagher a while back. He's doing this training course for people interested in getting in to New York politics. He seems like a smart guy. I especially liked this article on political capital. It makes the whole thing quite a lot less daunting and ... (www.maximumnewyork.com) posted 4mo ago with 4 replies received politics supercoordination

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Not well-versed in this, but a funny aside: Garry Tan’s TikToks average less than 200 views, and he interacts with anyone who comments or even visits his page (which is effectively no one). Seems like an incredibly easy in for anyone trying to reach out. 4mo ago received

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Uptrust. Another alt-social app designed to foster great conversations
This seems interesting. Someone linked it to me. Has anyone used it or know anything about it? It seems like there are multiple parties thinking in serious ways about what we might call the “alt social media problem” and how to design really great cult... (www.uptrusthq.com) posted 4mo ago with 3 replies received meta supercoordination

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I believe strongly in the inevitability of new alt-media spaces and digital enclaves that cater to specific scenes. Referring to the failure of past players, I think this has much less to do with network effects and far more with the fact that none of them... 4mo ago received

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Empire Without Frontier Is Dysgenic
People will leave their shtetl and cultural identities behind to participate in The Empire if there are opportunities available to them that wouldn't be available at home. And I'm not talking about computer job opportunities. I'm talking specifically about... posted 4mo ago with 3 replies received history supercoordination

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Peter Turchin develops Ibn Khaldoun's concept of asabiya (roughly social cohesion--the feeling of solidarity and capacity for collective action) which in agrarian states he claims is cultivated on meta ethnic frontiers, that is border regions of establishe... 4mo ago received

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I have skimmed it but will give it a more thorough read. While I appreciate Spengler (I understand Yockey has a spenglerian approach) I don't know how illuminating he is for our time. There is a failure to explain what makes cultures/civilizations tick (wh... 4mo ago received

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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 4mo ago with 6 replies received politics history supercoordination

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I think the key problem is that in mr Burja's "empire theory" terminology, you are describing a decentralized declining empire, but what we actually have is a centralized declining empire. In decentralized decline, pieces break off and become free of the f... 4mo ago received

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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.... 4mo ago received

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Super-Coordination Technical Exercise Problems
Another anon and I have been thinking about how to do supercoordination. We've got many ideas but we're still looking for the right problem to dive into together seriously.... posted 6mo ago with 4 replies received technology supercoordination

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I think another interesting problem, narrower in scope, is automatically detecting fraud in scientific publishing. There are a small set of tools and techniques that super spotters use. They look for duplication in images, or data distributions that are im... 6mo ago received

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How about aggregating the collective will of a bunch of individuals wills? By will, I mean a freeform expression/document consisting of issues one values/cares about/wants change in. 6mo ago received

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Freedom of Impression
Social media do not quite give us the freedom of impression. They force us into their often obscure engagement-driven "algorithmic feeds".... (www.techpolicy.press) posted 7mo ago with 9 replies received meta supercoordination

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one possible recommender system that'd give autonomy or "freedom of impression," I think, is a system which recommends you things based entirely on what you yourself post.... 6mo ago received

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Leibnizian Supercoordination
Continuing off of a few prior threads:... posted 7mo ago with 25 replies received news supercoordination

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4chan vs Tumblr
"In 2014, two online communities went to war. The belligerents were fairly niche social media boards: 4chan and Tumblr. While their short-lived conflict amounted to little more than a curious moment in Internet history, I have become convinced that it actu... (synergies.substack.com) posted 7mo ago with 4 replies received meta supercoordination

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I’m glad you brought up 4chan vs tumblr. Its one of the things that convinced me to do sofiechan. Basically what we see there is that internet forums are actually massively overpowered as political and social platforms, but seem to be quite hard to contr... 7mo ago received

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San Francisco Reform Party Thread
With the election of some new more moderate folks into SF government and a more tractable national ideological climate, a bunch of us seem to be thinking the same thing: lets develop a new politics for san francisco. SF is uniquely upstream so this is also... posted 9mo ago with 2 replies received politics supercoordination

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Yes we have radical aspirations. Our worldview is completely alien to american liberalism and our vision for the nation is revolutionary. That said, in san francisco i believe the correct tactical orientation is muscular moderate.... 9mo ago received

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Mapping the critical cohorts of the US
America relies on the competency of just a few cohorts of people and the health of the institutions that they occupy throughout their careers to function. I think it's a short list but I'd be curious to hear input on what I have so far:... posted 1y ago with 57 replies received news supercoordination

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The algorithm giveth, the algorithm taketh away. Occasionally, it may make mistakes, but more importantly we all may make mistakes in what we like and dislike. Attention is a political resource that we must fight to allocate properly. Please form your opin... 1y ago received

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How to Control an Online Forum
This thread is for the linked post about disinformation and forum control.... (edith.reisen) posted 1y ago with 5 replies received technology supercoordination

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Currently, sliding is not a huge problem because the front page has everything (scroll down!). Though of course discussion seems to be concentrated in the top few threads. In the long run, we're going to deal with scale and prioritization with tags. There ... 1y ago received

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Talent pool for the next regime
There do not seem to be many places in America for someone to become worthy of power. I do not buy that becoming a minor merchant aristocrat by founding an enterprise SaaS company makes one fit to govern. The military seems to be culturally compromised. Su... posted 1y ago with 42 replies received supercoordination

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I think you're right about software. In "Competition for Power", Mr. Burja writes:... 1y ago received

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Known good guides to gatekeeping?
Suppose you are starting a social club as a means of moving toward something bigger and better.... posted 1y ago with 13 replies received supercoordination

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That's true. At the same time, they did an extremely good job of gatekeeping out the leftist entryists that OP mentions. Note that they're probably the most prominent movement that's kept intellectual sovereignty in the face of the Current Thing. I can nam... 1y ago received

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Thanks! Posted here: >>1536. 1y ago received

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