My Essays – medium-form nonfiction (to the degree that anything is nonfiction)
"In this essay I will presume to speak for the dissident Right. I have as much claim to this power as I have to speak for the infinite stars. And yet stars, like dissidents, have much to say, if one only learns to listen."

americanmind.org/features/the-d…
A review of Michael Schur's television series, "The Good Place"

"Mystics speak of exo- and eso-teric traditions, which Sufi muslims call zahir and bāṭin, the world of forms and appearances, and the world of inner or hidden meaning, respectively."

autisticmercury.com/2020/02/24/the…
A meditation on the use of GPT-3 as a tool for writing fiction.

"This is a frustrating observation, because at every turn, when we try to talk about the limitations of AI, we also encounter the inexorable limitations of humans"

zerohplovecraft.substack.com/p/so-you-want-…

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1 Oct
@rhizostigmata It seems like religion is smaller than worldview, since your worldview includes your beliefs about history and your place in the world, your connection to the past and the future. Of course, literally anything *can* take on a religious dimension, which makes it hard to draw lines
@rhizostigmata I would suggest that, at minimum, a religion needs a soteriology and a mechanism for evangelism. Under this definition, "woke" maybe becomes dicey: we see them undergoing "religious" ecstasies but we don't really have a clear sense of how a woke person is "saved"
@rhizostigmata On the other hand, we see people at rock concerts experiencing ecstasies and evangelizing their interests to others, but being really into a particular music scene probably does not inhabit our intuition for what constitutes religion. Maybe soteriology is too narrow...
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29 Sep
Conviction is easy when you have someone to hate. Hatred is the glue that holds societies together at scale. It's hard to agree what is good, easy to agree who to hate. It's not wrong to define yourself by what you oppose, but it does cause a problem if that thing stops existing
Two reasons the leftward ratchet continues: 1. leftism in practice creates the conditions it claims to correct. 2. it has an extremely legible scapegoat. Let's start with the second one.
The left hates men, and it hates whites, in that order. The reason for this boils down to "fuck you, dad", but if we are slightly more nuanced, they hate whoever is above them, and they define "above them" as white men. It's clean, tautological, and impervious to empiricism
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28 Sep
online white racists with anime avatars hanging out with black RX hoteps
not trying to brag but I routinely get @-ed in response to tweets like "who are the smartest account you follow" and then I post stuff like this. You're welcome
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23 Sep
Using augmented reality, you will be able to make everyone in the world appear to be any race you want. Why is no one else talking about this? In the footnotes to God-Shaped Hole, I have two different speculative essays on this topic, see below 👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿
"To be honest though I felt more comfortable when Allegory made them look like everyone else. ARMOR came with lots of new rules. No one is allowed to use MR to change your race, sex, or age except you..."

zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/flesh-of-my-fl…
"In order to be ARMOR compliant, augmented reality apps are not allowed to change your race, sex, or age without your explicit consent. No one is allowed to use an app to change your accent or mannerisms except you."

zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/augmented-real…
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14 Sep
I made this based on Moldbug's latest.
The political narrative you buy into comes down to what part of this diagram you get fixated on. Without the whole picture, you are lost.

Left-normies think the power is in the factory.
Right-normies think it's in the bureau.
Both are wrong
The System is the actual engineering diagram of power in America. The Show is the nominal location of power. Most Americans see that the show isn't doing what they expect, and imagine that the show is being corrupted by something outside of it, e.g., the factory
If you are on the left: "The problem is that money is influencing politics" or, if you are on the right: "the problem is the vast inefficient bureaucracy". The brilliance of this diagram is that it shows that both fixations are a kind of arrested development
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6 Sep
I have written a new story, inspired by Neuralink and using some ideas that have been stewing in my head for a while. I think this is significantly better than the last few shorts I have published. Certainly it was written with more care.

zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2020/09/06/key…
@elonmusk @Grimezsz I know you like techno-horror. It's 5000 words, might make a good bedtime story for XÆA-12
Redditors think my story is too optimistic. Thanks for reading! I think what they miss is that the woke *already* feel a supreme sense of self-satisfaction, what Nietzsche called a voluptuous pleasure, in their self abasement. Image
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