John Thomas Connor - SuperDebate.org
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Building the first network for adult competitive debate | @SuperDebateClub | Restoring the Agora. Technologist for hire: JohnConnor(.xyz). Father of Aurelius.
Chicago, IL
Joined September 2008
It’s clearer than ever that our culture needs more spaces for open, honest debate. Disagreement should not be feared but welcomed. That is the mission of SuperDebate: to revive the art of dialogue, help people grow through disagreement, and strengthen a culture of free speech.
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Praxis always smuggles metaphysics!
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This is exactly why @SuperDebateClub is focussing on in-person, local, community-driven events and clubs. Anyone can watch a debate online, and we'll host those too, but there's an increasing demand for visceral, in depth, imminent human interaction. There's nothing like the
AI can generate anything now - images, videos, voices. Everything digital feels potentially fake. Funny how that's making people crave what's real in the physical world more than ever. The pendulum always swings back to authenticity.
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What topics would you like to see debated, in a structured efficient format, with formal judging?
What is a topic you would like to see professionally debated in a structured 30 minute format? SuperDebate podcast, coming soon!
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Decelerationists, how would you debate these points? @ESYudkowsky what do you think?
The game theory is simple and unforgiving. Realist state actors compete for limited resources on behalf of their peoples. AI multiplies power across every domain. That guarantees acceleration. Not because anyone wants it. But because stopping means losing. Any state that
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The game theory is simple and unforgiving. Realist state actors compete for limited resources on behalf of their peoples. AI multiplies power across every domain. That guarantees acceleration. Not because anyone wants it. But because stopping means losing. Any state that
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Sign up for the Debate Championship at @infinitacity in collaboration with @SuperDebateClub Full details here:
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Feb 18-20 in Roatán, Honduras. 32 teams, $150 entry, blockchain trophies. The inaugural debate event of the Infinite Games Festival.
🗣️ DEBATES BATTLE 🗣️ We teamed up with @SuperDebateClub to host a Debate Battle! Founders, thinkers, and misfits will go head-to-head in rapid-fire rounds on the future of tech, society, and everything in between. Fast, sharp, and way more fun than your college debate club.
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There's no app for that.
Just a reminder that the most robust data we've got on what makes people happy is very simple stuff: Get married. Take care of your health. Get lots of sleep. Don't be reckless with your money. Go to church or temple. See your family often. Have kids and delight in them. Maintain
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"Forty years of evidence says she was right. " Part 3 of 4 on the history of American debate
In 2003, 60 Minutes profiled a Baltimore debate team coached by a cop in full uniform. His students were skipping school. Thinking about dropping out. All 12 seniors graduated. Nine went to college. This wasn't luck. It was data.
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The history of debate in America, part 2
@Oprah. @tedcruz. @ewarren. @StephenAtHome. Sotomayor. Ketanji Brown Jackson. All high school debaters. One activity. Wildly different outcomes. Same skill. One obsessed professor built the entire system. Drove to all 3,100 county seats in America. Took him 44 years.
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After I close the seed round for @SuperDebateClub, I'm moving to Austin.
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We've forgotten that debate was once America's favorite spectator sport. Part 1 of 4 on how debate built the American republic.
In 1858, crowds of 15,000+ stood for THREE HOURS in open fields to watch Lincoln and Douglas debate. No mics. No chairs. Just ideas. We've forgotten that debate was once America's favorite spectator sport. Part 1 of 4 on how debate built the American republic:
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$1K-$10K packages. Grand prize sponsorship available. All custom. DM me for a 20-min call. https://t.co/8WR90gXDRu
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Feb 18-20 in Roatán, Honduras. 32 teams, $150 entry, blockchain trophies. The inaugural debate event of the Infinite Games Festival.
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Thousands of impressions across one of the highest-signal communities in crypto. 100+ live audience at finals. Full media coverage. Your brand in front of the people actually building the future of governance and technology.
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Seeking sponsors for the Infinita Debate Championship. 32 teams debating crypto governance and AI ethics at @infinitacity in @ProsperaGlobal. Feb 2026. The audience: founders, builders, and researchers from the Network State world. People who skip ads but remember who showed up.
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I will not worship the machine God. Basilisk be damned.
Whoever builds the next ideology for earnest, competent nerds is going to tear through the culture war like Napoleon through Europe.
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It's impossible to maintain such an offensive unless we build a culture that utilizes its' free speech effectively, and has the capacity to deeply challenge both concepts and power.
The U.S. finally feels like it's back on offense. Innovation is happening and is encouraged. It's hard not to be an optimist right now. We're in a golden age for freedom.
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What's your equivalent mission?
Not going to see the Sun until I emerge with AGI from first principles in matter
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I'm not trying to "fix discourse" with another app. I'm trying to rebuild the actual practice of competitive intellectual life in physical communities.
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