some quick thoughts on accruing Thielian influence and building a neo-cathedral in one of humanity's most pivotal transition phases... link below

if you put The Technological Republic and Abundance side by side, you'll note that the defining bipartisan tendency of the late 2020s is "we need to become a lot more like China," and with this, we vindicate Nick Land as the only serious thinker to have correctly identified

Few things will blackpill you on democracy as much as a central bank press conference. After a lifetime of watching democratically elected officials, you’ve concluded that perhaps all Power does Corrupt -- and then you witness a man with the fate of the entire global financial

don't ask me which demographic was en masse transferred from one of these countries to the other around midcentury

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A good chunk of contemporary Western thought can be modelled as the Continentals going “hah, you silly Anglo, don’t you know your simplistic obsession with predictiveness and mercantile embrace of the profit motive won’t bring you any closer to Truth,” followed by the Anglo’s

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A blatant fallacy people keep employing to dunk on this: "the internet has also selected Joe Rogan and Adam Friedland and so on, are *those* worldhistoric thinkers too?" No, the internet selects many things! the internet selects the next short-form video you're recommended --

the pendulum will swing back any day now

it's somewhat entertaining that as a reaction to the end of democracy, the Zohranist American New Left has chosen to pursue the strategy of balkanizing the country between Their Guys (university students, unemployed bohemians, welfare recipients) and the Other Guys

they're sending their best

their best public forum rebuttal to the likes of Bay Area Rationalists is basically gif reacts from sitcoms, "touch grass bro", etc.. how the mighty have fallen

It’s interesting that the populist right has found unexpected solidarity with the educated city-dwelling left in their shared refusal to take recent developments in artificial intelligence seriously (which is to say existentially) The latter has held a near-monopoly on polite

also one could argue Thiel & Yudkowsky are somewhat hard to pronounce?

This isn't to imply that the rhetoric to which the original post is responding predominantly dismisses their raw intelligence per se, just a related point

You can mount any number of viable critiques against these guys, both individually and as collectives, but the propensity to call them unintelligent, especially from camps that pride themselves on epistemic integrity, is deeply embarrassing

The post-internet thinkers from both sides of the aisle -- Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander, Land, Yarvin, BAP, Robin Hanson, Tyler Cowen, Bostrom, Fisher, MacAskill-- including the semi-industrialists: Thiel, Karp, Andreessen-- are presiding over an epochal moment in human history,

The problematic aspect of the analysis is that Trump is explicitly calling for a low policy rate because he wants cheaper sovereign financing, not because he’s some sort of Neo-Fisherian. So engaging with that as “well, if he doesn’t take advantage of the cheap financing maybe

Pretty hilarious that we’ve reached the stage of paradigm instability where a mainstream economist can publish an op-ed in a mainstream outlet essentially asking, "wait, are we *sure* Trump is undermining price stability by wanting the FOMC to run a persistently low policy rate?"

> Is it likely that what Peter Thiel has to say about the antichrist is in any meaningful way predictive out-of-sample? No, not very likely > Does his recent schizophrenic detour still serve a massively integral (primarily aesthetic) role within the broad "tech-right"