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Increasing control and wisdom at the human biological species, human civilization, and planetary scales.
// themes
- Building and maintaining functional institutions of live players
- Human hibernation for deep space travel and longevity
- Cybernetics
- Transhumanism
- How technological, geopolitical, economic, and memetic developments alter the trajectory of progress
Currently researching the neuroscience of learned helplessness and navigating academic bureaucracy as a PhD student @ Columbia.
// thinkers
- Arendt — banality of evil
- Burja — great founder theory
- Hobbes — state of nature
- Ibn Khaldun — عصبيّة (asabiyyah / social cohesion)
- Locke — natural rights
- Nash — Nash equilibrium
- Nietzsche — will to power, übermensch
- Plato — the just polis, platonic forms, philosopher-kings
- Rand — objectivism
- Rawls — veil of ignorance / original position
- Singer — preference utilitarianism
- Thiel — definite optimism
- de Tocqueville — tyranny of the majority
// long form
Palladium Magazine Foundation series — Asimov The Windup Girl — Bacigalupi Culture series — Banks Parable of the Sower — Butler Ender's Game — Card Jurassic Park — Crichton Diaspora — Egan Sprawl / Bridge trilogies — Gibson Dune — Herbert Boom — Hobart & Huber The Transhumanist Wager — Istvan Xenosystems — Land Remembrance of Earth's Past — Liu A Map That Reflects the Territory — LW Atlas Shrugged — Rand Incerto series — Taleb The Heart of a Cheetah — Wade Gray Mirror — Yarvin
// companies & people
Colossal Biosciences / Ben Lamm / George Church Orchid / Noor Siddiqui We Build Life / Josie Zayner He Jiankui Until / Laura Deming Science Corporation / Max Hodak SpaceX / Tesla Neuralink / Synchron / OpenBCI
// music & film
Grimes· Ninajirachi· Virtual Self / Porter Robinson· The 1975· Purity Ring· M83· Passion Pit· Puppet· Kero Kero Bonito· Lane 8· Gattaca (1997)· Planet Earth (2006)· Oppenheimer (2023)
// follows
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