Here are some unusual beliefs I hold:
Ideas are alive. They reproduce, mutate, compete, and predate on human substrate.
Good traits correlate. The beautiful are usually kind. The strong are usually smart.
Children are good. Having them is the point.
Man has a fixed nature. ~60% locked by adulthood. Can't be changed, only suppressed or unrealized.
Communication is fundamentally lossy. Every transmission is a mutational event.
The body knows before the mind does. Somatic knowledge is more fundamental than reason. The utility of reason is extremely strange. Reason might be a wholely different kind of thing than reality
Friction is good. It evolves us. Removing it makes everything worse in the very long run.
Only what persists is true. Truth that doesn't survive isn't truth.
Female choice is the primary engine of human quality.
You are your ancestors. Identity is distributed across kin, not contained in the individual.
Authority comes from reliability, not innovation.
Mimesis is the dominant human behavior. Almost nothing people do is original. When something genuinely new is created, it's extraordinarily exceptional, bordering on the divine.
The middle institution is dead in America. Only the intimate and the public remain. This is by design, and probably helps to explain American exceptionalism.
Naming is very powerful way to birth an infectious dea. Birthing an infectious idea is violence to your fellow men. Necessary violence, but violence.
Legibility is a better predictor of spread than truth.
Intelligent people are uniquely vulnerable to cognitohazards that look algebra-shaped.
The meme is eating the gene. Biology is being obseleted by complex ideas, but ideas require unusual biology to sustained complexity. The thing that made the substrate is consuming the substrate.
There is something predating on humans from a higher level of abstraction.
Anger is a resource few know how to use.
Self-hate is contagious. It spills out and stains.
The people who would save you don't want to save you specifically.
Humanity craves fight more than peace. If we got everything we wanted, we'd want to fight, and that's good.
People who know themselves know things about you that you don't know about yourself.
Something beautiful happened before I was born and it's dying, and I'm made of it.