Nick Gallo

Founder of @ThePiraeus | Grassroots Western Civ Revival | American patriot | Phd in computer science

[Nick Gallo @NickMGallo]

My first article in @realpamphleteer, discussing:

My experience with @meriwetheracdmy, a new men's group in Nashville (hosting @millerman @costofglory & others)

What it means for emerging grassroots movement championing: classical education, return to nature, authentic American patriotism

https://t.co/cRtUUjPgwt

[Ryan Fleury @rfleury]

The usual economic laws apply; the price of that which becomes overly abundant is driven toward zero. LLM generations are abundant, so slapping them together without thought is not valuable. Thus, for people who want to do good things, they must focus on what an LLM can’t do. They can either use or not use LLMs to do this; finding such things is nontrivial and highly personalized, so there isn’t the “race to the market” that people seem to suggest.

I’d posit that, having done (and still doing) completely unassisted hand programming, doing it allows me to find important architectural insights that I would’ve missed had I simply generated the code. Those insights lead to unique and superior results that an LLM wouldn’t have produced without excruciating attention and handholding, enough to make the LLM net productivity win extremely small.

This doesn’t mean that LLMs can’t accelerate important tasks, even for hand programming—finding the right research information, looking for things when you don’t even know what to look for, synthesizing hundreds of online discussions (while preserving links to them), and so on. But it’s far from Altman’s “genie”, when you’re doing anything of value.

[Nick Gallo @NickMGallo]

@GordMagill what is he doing back there?

[Nick Gallo @NickMGallo]

@HarrisonGarlic1 "let's think of these kids as if they were very expensive vases in a museum"

[The Piraeus @ThePiraeus]

Official announcement with more details on the new Piraeus Monthly article series.

[Meriwether Academy @meriwetheracdmy]

“We should not treat living creatures like shoes or pots and pans, casting them aside when they are bruised and worn out with service, but, if for no other reason, for the sake of practice in kindness to our fellow men, we should accustom ourselves to mildness and gentleness in our dealings with other creatures. I certainly would not sell even an ox that had worked for me, just because he was old, much less an elderly man…” - Plutarch, The Life of Cato the Elder

[Nick Gallo @NickMGallo]

Did I make the right move?

[Doomcrypt @doomcrypt]

A guy at TUCON traded @NickMGallo Plato for Nick Land.

The biggest name in the Western canon for the godfather of accelerationism.

Would you have made that trade?

[Nick Gallo @NickMGallo]

@doomcrypt Hopefully more will come into circulation: https://t.co/QgzHi6LDG7

[Nick Gallo @NickMGallo]

@gc22gc @JOEBOTxyz wish I could be there!

[Nick Gallo @NickMGallo]

Wish I could go!

[Forum @ApplyToForum]

The headliner debate will be 🔥🔥🔥
Get your tickets now

[Nick Gallo @NickMGallo]

Will be there!

[Ark Press @ark_press]

9/4: Larry Correia - Nick Searcy - Daily Wire's John Bickley hosting - NASHVILLE! - American Paladin Tour Finale. Be there!
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[Brian Kemple @realbriankemple]

A very generous gentleman just gave $2000.

We're a mere $644 away from $30,000 for the campaign.

I am willing to bet my mutuals can get us to that goal before the end of the day 👇🔗

[Nick Gallo @NickMGallo]

@doomcrypt @theoryundrgrnd @xenocosmography Great card and ability!

[Nick Gallo @NickMGallo]

https://t.co/oXY6KjhQKP

[Nick Gallo @NickMGallo]

Canon TCG card game by @theoryundrgrnd featuring Nietzsche, Strauss, Zizek, Hobbes, Lacan, Plato, Postman, and more.

Sign up at the kickstarter (below) to help them fund custom art and other expenses to get this project off the ground!

My packs from the pre-launch this weekend in northern Idaho:

[Doomcrypt @doomcrypt]

Meatspace mission successful.

Obtained: Nick Land holofoil Canon TCG card. TUCON 2026. 🦾🤖

Follow the Kickstarter for more of these. @theoryundrgrnd @xenocosmography

[Nick Gallo @NickMGallo]

New article series launching this week! Subscribe at https://t.co/K5fajfnqg6 for updates. Leave a comment with other groups/events you'd like to see covered, or with questions you have about the movement you'd like to see addressed.

[The Piraeus @ThePiraeus]

Our Monthly Roundup article series will launch this week!

Each article will provide a brief overview of events that we attended throughout the month. The goal is to cover a wider variety of events and to discuss how the groups/events are related.

Events from August that will be covered in the upcoming article:

AUG 1: Meriwether Academy's (@meriwetheracdmy) men's symposium dinner featuring Belmont philosophy professor Mark Anderson: "The Tranquility of Order: Ataraxia & the Ancient Art of Calm"

AUG 19: Lycium Institute (@LyceumInstitute) online happy hour discussing the "Essence of Tragedy"

AUG 20: Pamphleteer (@realpamphleteer) event in Nashville featuring Scott Greer (@ScottMGreer) on his new book Whitepilled with @PassagePress

AUG 24: Socrates in the City (@SocratesITC) reading group launching in Nashville to study John Lennox's "2084 and the AI Revolution."

AUG 25-31: Theory Underground's (@theoryundrgrnd) TUCon, discussing Post-Left Theory, and Canon Fest, the release of new Western-canon themed TCG, at a farm in northern Idaho. (Subject of in-depth report later this month.)

Subscribe at https://t.co/SLHnkgPGR5 for updates. Leave a comment with other groups or events you'd like to see covered.

[The Piraeus @ThePiraeus]

Excellent event with Dave McKerracher (@theoryundrgrnd) and Tony Chamas (@1DimeOfficial) that we will be covering in our Monthly Roundup this week and with an in-depth report later this month.

[Nick Gallo @NickMGallo]

https://t.co/mEsYhbzyF9

[Nick Gallo @NickMGallo]

Incredible 6-day event at McKerracher family farm in north Idaho! Thanks to the Dave (@theoryundrgrnd) and the rest of the McKerracher family for hosting and to the 10 others who came from across the country (and London) to participate!

The event had two parts:

(1) TUCon: The annual in-person event for Theory Underground, Dave's online philosophy school, which blended intellectual discussions with farming activities (which relate to his philosophical thinking).

The event featured talks by Dave and Tony Chamas (@1DimeOfficial) about their forthcoming book "Post Left Theory," which details why they each left or distanced themselves from the Left. They condemn "wokeness" but go deeper. They analyze why the Left went crazy and what new frontiers of philosophical, cultural, and political thought their intellectual liberations have opened up.

Dave invited me to give my first official talk about The Piraeus (@ThePiraeus). He interviewed me about it in front of the farm with group Q&A after (video coming soon). We explored how our visions of connecting grassroots groups in-person aligned. He recently described it as the "Fourth Frontier," a network of fourth places that define Internet 4.0, a fundamentally new way of organizing community in digital age (one with different incentives, dynamics, and other structures).

(2) CanonFest: The pre-release of "Canon: The Liberating Arts Trading Card Game"—a precursor the official launch of Dave's new Western-Canon themed that aims to help raise Canon literacy in our culture.

Though just a pre-print, the cards already looked beautiful and were a big hit with the group. Each card featured a famous thinker—Plato, Heidegger, Marx, Illich, Aquinas, Strauss, Arendt, Freud, Homer, etc.—or one of his books. We spent hours looking at the cards and playing the game; trading others for foil versions of our favorite thinkers (I for Plato, Tony for Strauss, Dave for Heidegger); and even making a few funny (obviously staged) video skits to help Dave advertise the Kickstarter campaign.

Sign up for the campaign below to help TU fund custom art and other expenses to get this project off the ground!

I've always been impressed by Dave's ambition and his vision to help sow the seeds for a long-term revival of American culture and education. This event (my second trip to the farm) let me learn a lot more about it and introduced me to a great community of people passionate about this mission.

Follow @ThePiraeus and sign up at the website for an in-depth report on the event coming out soon—ideas we discussed, the card game, travels through Idaho, the TU online school, and what it all means for our grassroots movement.

[Nick Gallo @NickMGallo]

The Fourth Frontier: https://t.co/mEsYhbzyF9