Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
By altering the ingredients of the idea menu they are exposed to, we might, in turn, minimize the dangerous inputs to the processes of belief and network updating.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Many in the New Right are philo-Semites, viewing Jews as the acme of intelligence and admiring the Jewish people’s ability to survive millennia of assault.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
But that ended in 2010, when the results of a four-year effort to map the Neanderthal genome were published.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
De nos jours, en revanche, alors que beaucoup d’individus continuent de tenir des propos racistes de ce genre, ceux-ci ont perdu tout fondement scientifique et l’essentiel de leur respectabilité politique – sauf quand ils sont reformulés en termes culturels. On ne dit plus que les Noirs ont tendance à commettre des crimes parce qu’ils ont des gènes
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technologies (e.g., social media, cryptography, and some other financial technology) are seen to be breaking down the social fabric, heightening polarization, eroding norms, undermining law enforcement, and accelerating the speed and expanding the reach of financial markets to the point where they are unaccountable to democratic polities. We shall
... See moreAudrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
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sciencedirect.comJim’s Blog and Xenosystems. VDARE.com focused on immigration, while AmRen.com was about “race realism” (i.e., “scientific racism”). They would bring up “HBD,” meaning “human biodiversity,” the idea that different human populations have important inherent biological differences. They spoke of NRx—short for neoreaction—and the Dark Enlightenment,
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racist theories, prominent and respectable for many decades, have become anathema among scientists and politicians alike. People continue to conduct a heroic struggle against racism without noticing that the battlefront has shifted, and that the place of racism in imperial ideology has now been replaced by ‘culturism’. There is no such word, but
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