we start out by reviewing some of @esyudkowsky's early rationalist writings, and the transition of rationalism from a religion of the sequences to a religion of HPMOR, and how yud played the roles of paul and jesus
and the ways in which he is incidentally like l ron hubbard
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that accomplished, we loop back to Alfred Korzybski, who more or less did everything that yudkoswki did, but two generations prior, and with a slightly different bent he was the origin of "the map is not the territory," incidentally
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we later covered Yud's more immediate intellectual roots in the Extropian community, and the manner in which he caused a Tofflerian schism in that transhumanist group and one instance in which
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this podcast was a wild fucking ride. massive props to
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while afaik I am still blocked by Yud, I hope he takes the occasional ribbings in this podcast in good humor (they are so intended), and deployed in the context of them as "here is how you are like a major intellectual figure of the 20th century"
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finally: you can listen to the Dead Authors Podcast about L. Ron Hubbard at the below links (two parts) and you should probably do that first because it's incredible and ALSO covers a hell of a lot of 20C intellectual history https://thedeadauthorspodcast.libsyn.com/chapter-45-part-1-l-ron-hubbard-featuring-andrew-daly … https://thedeadauthorspodcast.libsyn.com/chapter-45-part-2-l-ron-hubbard-featuring-andy-daly …
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@jd_pressman writes at https://www.wrestlinggnon.com/ . check him out :)Show this thread - End of conversation
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"I thought not. It's not a story the rationalists would tell you..."
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General Semantics is a pathway to many abilities, some considered to be unnatural.pic.twitter.com/PncnySp5KX
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