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"In 2008, the academic Benjamin Noys coined the word “accelerationism” to describe Land’s vision of capitalism as an unstoppable force and traditional politics as its enemy; the term was first taken up by leftists (who argued that unfettered technological progress would lead to a fully automated socialist utopia), and then by neo-Nazis (who imagined fomenting social breakdown through terrorism). By 2022, when the machine-learning revolution had entered full swing, some in Silicon Valley began to talk of “effective accelerationism” as they advocated removing any political or moral checks on technology. Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, posted, “You cannot out-accelerate me” on X; Andreessen published his widely shared “Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” calling for “the conscious and deliberate propulsion of technological development . . . to ensure the techno-capital upward spiral continues forever.” In 1993, Land had described capitalism as “an invasion from the future” by an artificial intelligence that had come back in time to assemble itself from “enemy resources”—that is, mankind. Three decades later, many in Silicon Valley are starting to believe that superintelligence is on the horizon and approaching fast. If A.I. takeover is inevitable, then maybe resistance is futile. What if, instead of trying to stop it, you joined it?
“Increasingly, there are only two basic human types populating this planet,” Land wrote in 2013. “There are autistic nerds, who alone are capable of participating effectively in the advanced technological processes that characterize the emerging economy, and there is everybody else. For everybody else, this situation is uncomfortable.”"
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/silicon-valleys-favorite-doomsaying-philosopher
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Donald Trump & Vladimir Putin are both fascistic, monarchist hyperneoliberalists.
Political philosopher Vlad Vexler ranks both on all three scales, and notes that their evolution is convergent, not influential.
If we continue on this path, more Trumps and more Putins will keep coming out of the system and our politics will collapse into authoritarianism.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7_L6ZU3zxOc
#putinism #trump #putin #fascism #monarchism #neoliberalism #authoritarianisn #nafo
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Article in The New Yorker on how Nick Land has ‘has reemerged as one of the most influential reactionary thinkers of our time.’ And yet is also very much yesterday’s man. “They sounded like old fogeys,” said podcaster Justin Murphy, host of a 2020 LA conversation between Land and Curtis Yarvin, another influential neo-reactionary - an event that was also attended by Peter Theil. “We’ll remember this night as proof that the Dark Enlightenment is over.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/silicon-valleys-favorite-doomsaying-philosopher
#philosophy #theory #nickland #curtisyarvin #reactionary #petertheil
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People often struggle with what to make of Thiel’s involvement in this ecosystem.
Last year the journalist Max Chafkin published a biography of Thiel, titled
"The Contrarian"
in which he described #Yarvin as the
“house political philosopher” for a network often called the #Thielverse.The book focuses heavily on Thiel’s political maneuverings,
describing how he evolved from being a
hyper-libertarian to someone who now makes common cause with
nationalists and populists.And it explains how Thiel helped both #Cruz and #Josh #Hawley on their paths to the Senate.
The Contrarian ends with a dark picture of the billionaire trying to extend his political reach ever more overtly
by funding and shepherding the campaigns of #Masters and #Vance.“Masters and Vance are different from Hawley and Cruz,” Chafkin writes;
the former two are “extensions” of Thiel.This is only partly true. It would be just as accurate to say that Thiel has been influenced by the intellectual currents and political critiques of the "New Right" that he’s now helping to support.
Many of these people are friendly with Thiel, or admire him,
but are by no means beholden to him.And many of them hold views that would seem to make Thiel,
a tech oligarch currently worth around $8 billion who recently resigned from the Meta—née Facebook—board of directors,
their natural enemy.This New Right is heavily populated by people with graduate degrees,
so there’s a lot of debate about who is in it and whether or not it even exists.🔹At one end are the NatCons, post-liberals, and traditionalist figures like "Benedict Option" author #Rod #Dreher, who envision a
🔸conservatism reinvigorated 🔸
by an embrace of localist values,
religious identity,
and an active role for the state in promoting everything from
marriage to
environmental conservation.🔹But there’s also a highly online set of
Substack writers, podcasters, and
anonymous Twitter posters
—“our true intellectual elite,” as one podcaster describes them.This group encompasses everyone from
rich crypto bros and
tech executives to
back-to-the-landers to
disaffected members of the American intellectual class,
like "Up in the Air" author #Walter #Kirn,
whose fulminations against groupthink and
techno-authoritarianism have made him
an unlikely champion to the dissident right and heterodox fringe.🔹But they share a the basic #worldview:
🔸that individualist liberal ideology,
increasingly bureaucratic governments,
and big tech
🔸are all combining into a world that is at once
tyrannical,
chaotic,
and devoid of the systems of value and morality that give human life richness and meaning
—as Blake Masters recently put it,
a “#dystopian #hell-world.”#Peter #Thiel #NatCon #Thielbucks #Vance #Blake #Masters #Thiel #Foundation #New #Right #Curtis #Yarvin #incels #Josh #Hammer #Michael #Anton #Chris #Arnade #Sohrab #Ahmari #Compact #libertine #left #libertarian #right #kook
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The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates only into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients. The gifted propagandist brings to a boil ideas and passions already simmering in the minds of his hearers. he echoes their innermost feelings. Where opinion is not coerced, people can be made to believe only in what they already “know.”
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 83 (3.14.83) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11263/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #agitprop #belief #confirmation #confirmationbias #conviction #disinformation #fear #ideas #justification #opinion #passion #predisposition #prejudice #propaganda #reinforcement #truebeliever
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The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates only into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients. The gifted propagandist brings to a boil ideas and passions already simmering in the minds of his hearers. he echoes their innermost feelings. Where opinion is not coerced, people can be made to believe only in what they already “know.”
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 83 (3.14.83) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11263/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #agitprop #belief #confirmation #confirmationbias #conviction #disinformation #fear #ideas #justification #opinion #passion #predisposition #prejudice #propaganda #reinforcement #truebeliever
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The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates only into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients. The gifted propagandist brings to a boil ideas and passions already simmering in the minds of his hearers. he echoes their innermost feelings. Where opinion is not coerced, people can be made to believe only in what they already “know.”
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 83 (3.14.83) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11263/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #agitprop #belief #confirmation #confirmationbias #conviction #disinformation #fear #ideas #justification #opinion #passion #predisposition #prejudice #propaganda #reinforcement #truebeliever
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The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates only into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients. The gifted propagandist brings to a boil ideas and passions already simmering in the minds of his hearers. he echoes their innermost feelings. Where opinion is not coerced, people can be made to believe only in what they already “know.”
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 83 (3.14.83) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11263/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #agitprop #belief #confirmation #confirmationbias #conviction #disinformation #fear #ideas #justification #opinion #passion #predisposition #prejudice #propaganda #reinforcement #truebeliever
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 2, § 10 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10669/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #bother #busybody #distraction #interference #intrusion #keepingbusy #meaning #mindyourownbusiness
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Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived at their opinions as the result of their own thinking — and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority. The consensus of all serves as a proof for the correctness of “their” ideas.
Erich Fromm (1900-1980) American psychoanalyst and social philosopher
The Art of Loving, ch. 2 (1956)More about this quote: wist.info/fromm-erich/80468/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichfromm #choice #conformity #consensus #following #individualism #majority #orthodoxy #selfawareness #selfdeception #selfdelusion
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Life’s usefulness is not in its length, but in its use: some who have lived a long time have lived but little — take heed of it while you are still in it. For you to have lived enough lies in your will, not in the number of your years.
[L’utilité du vivre n’est pas en l’espace: elle est en l’usage. Tel a vescu long temps, qui a peu vescu. Attendez vous y pendant que vous y estes. Il gist en vostre volonté, non au nombre des ans, que vous ayez assez vescu.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 19 (1.19), “That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die [Que Philosopher, c’est apprendre à mourir]” (1572-03) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #fulfillment #fulllife #goodlife #life #lifespan #lifetime #living #mortality
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 9 “Fear of Public Opinion” (1930)More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/792…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #BertrandRussell #autonomy #bullying #cruelty #discrimination #folly #foolishness #heterodoxy #independence #individualism #judgment #nastiness #nationalism #prejudice #racism #sexism #stupidity #merit #virtue
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Will thou know what wonders strange be in the land that late was found?
Will thou learn thy life to lead, by divers ways that godly be?
Will thou of virtue and vice understand the very ground?
Will thou see this wretched world, how full it is of vanity?
[Vis nova monstra, novo dudum nunc orbe reperto?
Vivendi varia uis ratione modos?
Vis qui virtutum fontes, vis unde malorum
Principia? et quantum rebus inane latet?]Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
Utopia, “A Meter of Four Verses in the Utopian Tongue,” “Cornelius Graphey to the Reader” (1516 ed.) [tr. Open Utopia (Duncombe) (2012)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/83122/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #discovery #exploration #foreigners #strangeness #virtue #wonder
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The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the people it acts upon. No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion — it is an evil government.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 147 (1955)More info about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/17192/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #aspirations #culture #evil #goals #government #humanlife #ideals #objectives #society #wayoflife
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 18 “Conclusion” (1854)More info about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrydavidthoreau #walden #waldenpond #action #ambitions #aspirations #dreams #effort #fantasy #goals #implementation
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
For my part, the thing that I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 3 “Competition” (1930)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/767…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #contentment #satisfaction #bertrandrussell #aspirations #competition #economicsecurity #goals #leisure #ratrace #wealth #money
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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace or temple on the earth, and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed of them.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Journal (1852-07-14)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #thoreau #aging #ambition #aspirations #dreams #gettingold #grandiosity #growingold #maturity #meme #middleage #practicality #pragmatism #youth
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Wish a miser long life, and you wish him no good.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1738 ed.)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/75…
#quote #quotes #quotation #longlife #miser #misery #unhappiness #avarice #want #greed
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Wish a miser long life, and you wish him no good.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1738 ed.)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/75…
#quote #quotes #quotation #longlife #miser #misery #unhappiness #avarice #want #greed
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Wish a miser long life, and you wish him no good.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1738 ed.)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/75…
#quote #quotes #quotation #longlife #miser #misery #unhappiness #avarice #want #greed
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Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn
I lean’d, the Secret of my Life to learn:
And Lip to Lip it murmur’d — “While you live,
“Drink! — for, once dead, you never shall return.”Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Bod. # 100 [tr. FitzGerald, 3rd ed. (1872), # 35]Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/omar-khayyam/74604/
#quote #quotes #quotation #afterlife #carpediem #death #drinking #enjoyment #living #longlife #longevity #seizeheday #wine
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The Duality of McKenna: Cognitive Architecture vs. Clinical Anxiety
Philosopher Terence McKenna warned of global crisis from 'industrial neurosis,' while hypnotherapist Paul McKenna offers quick anxiety relief. Who is right?
#McKennaDebate, #AnxietyTreatment, #SocietalCrisis, #MentalHealth, #Philosophy
https://newsletter.tf/philosophy-vs-hypnotherapy-mckennas-debate-anxiety/
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The Duality of McKenna: Cognitive Architecture vs. Clinical Anxiety
Philosopher Terence McKenna warned of global crisis from 'industrial neurosis,' while hypnotherapist Paul McKenna offers quick anxiety relief. Who is right?
#McKennaDebate, #AnxietyTreatment, #SocietalCrisis, #MentalHealth, #Philosophy
https://newsletter.tf/philosophy-vs-hypnotherapy-mckennas-debate-anxiety/
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The Duality of McKenna: Cognitive Architecture vs. Clinical Anxiety
Philosopher Terence McKenna warned of global crisis from 'industrial neurosis,' while hypnotherapist Paul McKenna offers quick anxiety relief. Who is right?
#McKennaDebate, #AnxietyTreatment, #SocietalCrisis, #MentalHealth, #Philosophy
https://newsletter.tf/philosophy-vs-hypnotherapy-mckennas-debate-anxiety/
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The Duality of McKenna: Cognitive Architecture vs. Clinical Anxiety
Philosopher Terence McKenna warned of global crisis from 'industrial neurosis,' while hypnotherapist Paul McKenna offers quick anxiety relief. Who is right?
#McKennaDebate, #AnxietyTreatment, #SocietalCrisis, #MentalHealth, #Philosophy
https://newsletter.tf/philosophy-vs-hypnotherapy-mckennas-debate-anxiety/
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The Duality of McKenna: Cognitive Architecture vs. Clinical Anxiety
Philosopher Terence McKenna warned of global crisis from 'industrial neurosis,' while hypnotherapist Paul McKenna offers quick anxiety relief. Who is right?
#McKennaDebate, #AnxietyTreatment, #SocietalCrisis, #MentalHealth, #Philosophy
https://newsletter.tf/philosophy-vs-hypnotherapy-mckennas-debate-anxiety/
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of “pleasure.” That is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/760…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #alcohol #analgesic #distraction #drinking #drunkenness #frustration #hedonism #living #oblivion #palliative #pleasure #unawareness #unhappiness
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of “pleasure.” That is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/760…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #alcohol #analgesic #distraction #drinking #drunkenness #frustration #hedonism #living #oblivion #palliative #pleasure #unawareness #unhappiness
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of “pleasure.” That is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/760…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #alcohol #analgesic #distraction #drinking #drunkenness #frustration #hedonism #living #oblivion #palliative #pleasure #unawareness #unhappiness
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of “pleasure.” That is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/760…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #alcohol #analgesic #distraction #drinking #drunkenness #frustration #hedonism #living #oblivion #palliative #pleasure #unawareness #unhappiness