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orthotechnocapitalist

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the Future is almost here

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@SCHIZO_FREQ pay $149/month to opt out or be inundated with endless coal

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@RokoMijic “You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.”

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@loveterrorjade @angeIiki get your nose on LV Afternoon Swim

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@ArtemisConsort Philosophy is rightful NEET clay.

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@BecomingCritter never heard a convincing argument for why even a single dollar should be redistributed centrally

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how to increase thymos ray peat

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@tom777kruise Imagine writing the Diversity Myth in 1995, being ignored, and having to wait 25 years to see the shitshow culminate.

I get why he wants to live forever.

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@tom777kruise Peter Thiel is actually a cutiepie but he doesn't know how to present to the masses and so they hate him

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@cremieuxrecueil You cannot have a society with both pay-as-you-go fiscal transfers to the old and monetary policy that inflates the assets they disproportionately own.

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The argument here is from the Orthodox perspective but it applies equally to Catholicism and the Catholic Church, which looks to be participating in the alignment discourse.

The problems:

1) Transhumanism/AI will be disordered if you are Orthodox/Catholic, misaligned if you are a Rationalist, unless grounded in a coherent moral philosophy.
2) The people attempting to develop and politically implement this moral philosophy are, from the limited info I gather from their X footprint, amateur zeitgeist liberals not thinking at the appropriate level of philosophical abstraction.
3) The people who should have the expertise and credibility to be working on this moral philosophy are anti-technology EuroBoomers in ossified religious institutions. They are no longer interested in or capable of the mysticism that once made them admirable institutions and that is a prerequisite for such moral innovations. We do not have a modern St. Thomas Aquinas or St. Gregory Palamas, not even close.

It is possible to integrate technological advancement in Catholic/Orthodox doctrine. I would argue it's necessary in the Western context. When one allows no space for the divine, or otherwise presently mysterious mechanisms, an epistemic arrogance develops. The word "Rationalist" alone is sufficient evidence. "Transhumanism" as a term also has an unnecessarily arrogant valence and as such has terrible public perception. The normie, on some level, detects these prideful connotations and is instinctually disgusted. Why even bother with the term? It's merely the continuation of technological progress. There is no reason to be self-important.

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Transhumanism is the enhancement of the human through technological means and has no place for the uncreated, which is a hard requirement in Theosis doctrine via participation in the uncreated divine energies.

Theosis doctrine recommends asceticism to "receive" salvation (somewhat similar to Eastern theologies). Transhumanism is entirely self-dependent, unless we come up with a convoluted theology where we must act in accordance with the whims of e.g. Roko's Basilisk. But even the Basilisk would be created rather than uncreated and so there would still be a theological conflict.

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@inklight22 @ArtemisConsort TLDR: Theosis requires participation in the uncreated, Transhumanism doesn't.

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Transhumanism is the enhancement of the human through technological means and has no place for the uncreated, which is a hard requirement in Theosis doctrine via participation in the uncreated divine energies.

Theosis doctrine recommends asceticism to "receive" salvation (somewhat similar to Eastern theologies). Transhumanism is entirely self-dependent, unless we come up with a convoluted theology where we must act in accordance with the whims of e.g. Roko's Basilisk. But even the Basilisk would be created rather than uncreated and so there would still be a theological conflict.

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@inklight22 @ArtemisConsort Deification is doctrinally not attained through material.

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@ArtemisConsort in the pleasant one you can't be the apex victim

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@tenderizzation the 3yo was high iq

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@minordissent @FondOfBeetles Blue is anti-social unless they get >50%. They're getting 55% in a Twitter poll with no stakes and with a WEIRD sampling bias. Beyond cooked.

>What if my child votes blue?

What if they vote red?

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@xenocosmography @Pacozza_libre "High trust" is being misrepresented as the compulsive urge to select, on an individual level, negative EV, existentially costly choices that appear vaguely pro-social but in actuality do nothing but burden others. "Selfishness" is preferable to this and much easier to parse.

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the results change severely based on the framing, application of the conditions. as such the best strategy is to choose predictably instead of trying to model the mind of every other person on the planet given a certain frame. the predictable choice is obviously the guaranteed non-death button. doing anything else is needlessly adding friction to a coordination problem.

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