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Academia does not reward wisdom. It rewards your h-index, which is largely based on herd social dynamics. Saying this as someone who is going to pursue a PhD.

Can’t wait. Can already tell there will be some serious systemic observations.

Can you write some of your thoughts on the Blog? You can tie it nicely with the last “political winter” piece, which is pure gold. Would be a good testament you can come back to when addressing some of the “black pill” topics in the future and “touch base” with the hippies.

Recent blog posts have been absolute gold. Thanks for sharing.

@Leo Gura How have you made sure the brutal reality doesn’t corrupt your consciousness? I have found that the more I wrestle with gruesome nature of what needs to be done (олигархия), my mind tends to enter Chaos/Insanity spaces.

Definition of a man child. It’s funny how the perception of Zucc and Musk flipped.

This is such a low quality post.

First it was 2000, then 2008, then 2012… You get the idea. Never has been and never will be a “sudden awakening”. Not how society evolves.

@integral If you reframe it as “entertaining” instead of “addictive” I am more likely to agree. Even then, I think the deeper point is that for every 10 minutes of high consciousness content you consume you need to spend a 100 contemplating yourself. TikTok clearly isn’t the format for that. There is a reason less and less people can finish a 20 min video, let alone an hour or two.

There may be an alternative motive for banning Tik Tok beyond a geopolitical clash with China. I have been seeing a lot of posts about the comments of the ADL CEO and a conversation between Mitt Romney and Blinken that enforces that this may have to do with Israel and Palestine: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/blinken-romney-israel-hamas-tiktok-b2540021.html

This is an oxymoron. High Consciousness work is difficult, boring and mundane. It is meant to shake you out of your comfort zone not reinforce it.

It’s not like the sharp rise in virgins can be attributed to a genetic shift. Of course evolution always persists, it is a feature of consciousness. What I was pointing to is that we can no longer speak of only “genetic fitness” as the selection pressure. I used “technology” as a much broader term than simply CRISPR - it refers to any and all augmentations, whether it be societal (social media, internet), biological (medicine), or mechanical (transportation, industrialisation), etc. For example, if before primarily physical strength was being selected for, now it is intelligence and mercantilism (think of Musk with his 12 kids) And that will of course continue to change.

I didn’t say we have stopped evolving. I said that it’s not the genetic mutations that are being selected for. Being an incel has nothing to do with genes. Modern medicine has also changed the selection for physical attributes because even if you are short and weak, you will not die by a predator.

From a local/micro-perspective it certainly may look or feel this way. But if you zoom out, you can see the phase transitions in complexity and societal organisation. The emergence of such patterns cannot be accounted by simply looking at power dynamics.

Even though it’s true that children have around 60 new genetic mutations compared to their parents, we are long beyond evolutionary pressures selecting for those. Any phenotype changes would necessarily come from technology, since we are already operating at sub-generational time scales.