Jesus. Ignore Pinker. He'll shift when the Zeitgeist does. Focus on the enemy.
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Replying to @Outsideness @thespandrell and
But who is the enemy?pic.twitter.com/3hJmtijFaU
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Replying to @ovchinnikov @Outsideness and
The Cathedral, of course. Such as it is.
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Replying to @thespandrell @Outsideness and
Can we really win? Isn't Cathedral is just a consequence of our biology? The enemy is us. We are going to play status games. If the Cathedral is endpoint of all historical processes, we'll have to restart "manually" each time. We can win this time, but total victory is impossible
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Replying to @ovchinnikov @thespandrell and
You may say at, it is sufficient to win more or two times until an AI will be able to maintain and improve itself without us, but I don't want an AI, I want better people.
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Replying to @ovchinnikov @Outsideness and
“Cathedral a consequence of our biology” is not a useful way of putting it. Yes, humans are what we are, full of shit. But there’s plenty we can do on the margin. There’s been a lot of cultures around the world, not all as rotten as ours today. We can do better.
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Replying to @thespandrell @ovchinnikov and
This is premature, IMO. "Leftism a consequence of our biology," at least, seems true at most levels of historical development. A good working definition of the Right, even, is any social tech that interrupts the innate egalitarian impulses.
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Replying to @AngloRemnant @thespandrell and
Markets is a working tech. But how is it works exactly? It overdrivesf innate impulses with greed, which is innate too. It is not just interruption, it is substitution. And you can't use anything as substitute, you need something primordial. The possibilities are limited.
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"You cant use anything as a substitute." That is, until you really start taking the levers of decision-making out of our hands. The tech-engineering solution to the political problem was not ancillary to the original formulation of NRx, tho few agree with me now.
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