R/Acc in a nutshell: 'Civilizational decay will overtake techonomic advances and it's the Cathedral's fault' Is this accurate?
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Replying to @ParadiseDelayed
I don't think it's as explicit as "it's the cathedral's fault" so much as a general "social tech has degraded, encouraging a powerful dysgenic trend that threatens all technological progress."
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Replying to @ParadiseDelayed
Something like culture + religion + governance, which are the three areas Moldbug identified as Cathedral run in the US. Unless my memory is faulty, Moldbug never suggested that the Cathedral or any of its pieces have any agency.
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Replying to @The_WGD @ParadiseDelayed
R/ACC is predicated on the idea that some people perceive this dynamic, have the agency to act on those observations, and ought to focus on building pockets with different incentive structures so as to build better social tech, thereby helping ACC reach escape velocity.
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Replying to @The_WGD
Is anyone at the moment actually doing this in practical terms, building these pockets?
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Replying to @ParadiseDelayed
I believe so. There are definitely men who have withdrawn from the social sphere to build local, Christian communities. Techno-Amish is one potential R/ACC future, and there are already families living this way.
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Replying to @The_WGD
Thanks, I'm just trying to get an explicit picture of what the different positions are and what the genuinely substantial disagreements are
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Replying to @ParadiseDelayed
TBH, I find the disagreements largely motivated by tribalism. If acceleration is inevitable and unconditional, there's no reason to argue it. If it's ushering in the post-human (which is a nonsensical idea, anthropologicaly), human political distinctions are irrelevant.
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I agree about the tribalism, why do you think the post-human is a nonsensical idea though?
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Replying to @ParadiseDelayed
Because human is already, in my opinion, a near-useless term. There are meaningful distinctions between subpopulations based on selection pressures that are largely ignored when we speak about "humanity."
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