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in thread "The Fallujiad":

I read the last canto posted and found the prose to be lively and fast-moving... it was quite enjoyable to read. I bet it'll be a fun book, all in all, when it's finally completed and published.... 5mo ago received

I read the last cant received

If we're thinking of what the "relevant literature being produced for our own era" is, then Houellebecq absolutely counts. My only caveat would be that his great anthropological works — Extension of the Domain of the Struggle, The Elementary Particles, a... 3mo ago received

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in thread "Fascist Economics in the wake of AGI":

The question of human value after the collapse of Humanism deserves its own thread — really, it deserves its own book. You can think of both Nietzsche and Land as fundamentally concerned about this project, though Land carries it further than Nietzsche d... 7mo ago received

The question of huma received

Yeah, I love social nationalism as much as the next guy, but nationally directed economies are computationally a huge fucking issue. People forget that China is only hanging on by the skin of its teeth, since the property bubble started to go tits up a dec... 7mo ago received

Yeah, I love social received

Idk, have you looked at all into the Chinese macroeconomic data? The structural issues with the Chinese economy aren't some fringe conspiracy theory; they've been mainstream economic arguments for the past decade.... 7mo ago received

Idk, have you looked received

Short Human Timelines: How long do hominids have?
Linkpost for Dan Faggella's article here: https://danfaggella.com/short/... (danfaggella.com) posted 12mo ago with 4 replies received

Short Human Timeline received

I think if you specify that the "fewer than 5 billion normal "homonid form" people" can't be just people who spend all their time in VR and never go outside he'd take that bet at even odds.... 12mo ago received

I think if you speci received

in thread "What goes on the reading list for the Students?":

IMO talking about doing the reading mixes up two distinct issues. First, there's ideological education, which one can get from either reading explicitly right-wing books or by simply reading some more apolitical classics with a correct hermeneutic slant. S... 1y ago received

IMO talking about do received

Circling back to OP >>4188, we ought to think about what the point of reading is for our guys. One reason to read books in the year 2025 is to better understand the social and political situation that we're in and gain intellectual frameworks that can allo... 1y ago received

Circling back to OP received

With all that said, here are some of my recommendations:... 1y ago received

With all that said, received

Are you saying there was no diversity of thought in early Renaissance Italy? This seems like a risible claim. 1y ago received

Are you saying there received

in thread "Horrorism vs Vitalism":

This is *the* question of the future, and I’m glad it’s been put in such lucid terms... 1y ago received

This is *the* questi received

Reading The Thirst for Annihilation makes me feel like Land grew too old for his victories, as Nietzsche would say. So much intellectual fervor in the early 90s work that gets tempered into mere great blogging in the 2010s, and now just political commentar... 1y ago received

Reading The Thirst f received

In the question of Gnonic vitalism vs. Orthodox Horrorism or Humanist conservatism, I think the "atheism" question is one key axis of the discussion. Theism, if one takes it in its general form, is the affirmation that there is a legitimate font of value o... 1y ago received

In the question of G received

Good poast, figuring out what we're really trying to *do* with moral theorizing is immensely useful in facilitating the right kind of discourse around these issues.... 1y ago received

Good poast, figuring received

in thread "Applied Gnon Theology":

100%, I think people are really getting out over their skis in the interpretations of Land that get passed around on here. Might poast a thread about it 1y ago received

100%, I think people received

Anyone who can storm Heaven by force and unseat Gnon would be, ipso facto, Gnon-approved. It’s an interesting play, to say the least… 1y ago received

Anyone who can storm received

Drilling in further on the gnon-question, it seems worth dwelling on the way Heidegger is used here:... 1y ago received

Drilling in further received

The is/ought gap is a classic feature of analytic philosophy going back to Hume, and I think OP should elaborate further on how exactly he proposes that we cross it. Here's the posited solution:... 1y ago received

The is/ought gap is received

in thread "Medidation, Enlightenment, Dharma, and Sokushinbutsu":

I couldn't agree more! Excellent description of some of the cognitive science of the path, and bonus points for bringing up MN 36, what a great sutta.... 1y ago received

I couldn't agree mor received

This is totally true, and should be expected with any kind of cognitive procedure that really does interfere with fundamental neural machinery.... 1y ago received

This is totally true received

If you spend any time at all around meditators, you'll notice that people simply do not get addicted to the jhānas. Yeah, there are lots of things that can be addictive about spiritual life, about renunciation, about asceticism, about feeling a sense of m... 1y ago received

If you spend any tim received

Here we're speaking of the fundamental meaning, the telos of human life, which can be something of a controversial question. In this specific situation, retreating to debates over the fundamental purpose of human life is not a fruitful path of discussion. ... 1y ago received

Here we're speaking received

in thread "Of Vitality":

The adjective use is McCarthy-esque, but it needs more rhythm in the sentence structure and maybe a smattering of fragmentary asides to really hit.... 1y ago received

The adjective use is received

That's the rub — when you're pursuing terminal goals outside of pure vitality, you can end up being pulled quite far away from the vitalistic lifestyle. This is why Book 10 of the Nicomachean Ethics can be so maddening, as it throws out all consideration... 1y ago received

That's the rub — whe received

in thread "Vitalist/BAP/Nietzsche Metaphysics Question":

His read on evolution, I think, is more to the point when we're talking about innate intelligence. If I remember correctly, it's an extended bit on a certain kind of praying mantis that knows to attack the larval stage of its enemies, even without having s... 1y ago received

His read on evolutio received

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in thread ""Cosmic Alignment" is almost right. Life is the answer":

I haven't read Ginevra Davis's Cosmic Alignment talk. I'll see if I can find the link somewhere. I do, however, know her from a few other pieces, notably her piece on Stanford culture, which was very good. Seems like a smart girl.... 1y ago received

I haven't read Ginev received

Continuing that argument, I think the idea of parenting is not really applicable here. What it means to be a parent is to bring a being up who in some very intimate way shares your nature. In the strong biological sense of parenthood, the child is literall... 1y ago received

Continuing that argu received

Yes, I think this is straightforwardly true.... 1y ago received

Yes, I think this is received

When the men of Ilium saw the ships appear on the horizon, they were watching physis unfold itself in all its brilliance, but did that comfort them? I think our attitude, as men of the human race, should echo that of Hector in book 6 of the Iliad, as he co... 1y ago received

When the men of Iliu received

in thread "Xeno Futures Research Unit":

This goes back to what I was saying earlier about the impact of model intelligence on the overall state of the AI economy, more than the techno-economic feedback loops. If all the capital dries up, which is possible, albeit unlikely, then what will be left... 1y ago received

This goes back to wh received

Yeah, this is a totally fair point, and I think a lot of the "effective accerationsists" push this argument so far as to invalidate their entire worldview.... 1y ago received

Yeah, this is a tota received