Hacking State

32 - Jonathan Anomaly: The Virtues of Enlightened Tribalism

Jonathan Anomaly is a world renowned expert on the science and ethics of genetic enhancement and the Academic Director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics, & Economics in Quito, Ecuador.
Dr. Anomaly introduces the concept of Enlightened Tribalism, a virtuous mean between blind tribalism and undiscerning universalism.
We discuss why tribalism gets a bad rap, the evolutionary origins of tribalism, how altruism gets selected for in groups, liberal cosmopolitanism as a response to the excesses of nationalism in World War I and World War II, the difference between Enlightened tribalism and pathological tribalism, pitfalls in the ways liberals propose to extend altruism indefinitely, the problems with genetically engineering people for altruism, why people are not fungible to institutions, the moral case for Enlightened Tribalism, and why real diversity requires a rejection of cosmopolitan liberalism.
 
Paper on Enlightened Tribalism: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=ANOETA
Jonathan Anomaly: https://jonathan-anomaly.com/
 
 
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31 - Nick Simmons: Octu Ventures + Urbit, Building the Pillars of a Digital Civilization

Nick Simmons is Cofounder and member of Octu Ventures, a member-driven venture DAO investing in teams building on Urbit.
Urbit comprises a decentralized network of personal servers, a unique digital ID system, and a decentralized peer-to-peer networking protocol. Altogether, these constitute load-bearing pillars of a truly digital civilization.
We talk about the Urbit stack, Octu's thesis behind a member-driven venture DAO, Urbit as a new coordination technology, the importance of persistent digital identities that are not real names, encoding offline social technology in digital online network technology, the robustness and fault-tolerance of the Urbit network, and building the load-bearing pillars of a digital civilization.
 
Find Nick on Urbit: ~simfur-ritwed
Octu: https://octu.ventures/
Hydra Ventures: https://www.hydraventures.xyz/
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly: https://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants/dp/B00476WM36/ref=sr_1_1
 
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30 - Alexander Pacheco: Building a Network of 150

Alexander Pacheco is the founder of social media platform, 150. Based on Dunbar’s Limit, 150’s innovative social network leverages insights from network science to create a small-town feel that elides many of the downsides that come with incumbent social media giants.
Alexander walks us through using anthropology and human nature to shape the network topology of 150 to more closely reflect the way we socialize and build connections in real life, how trust in networks is where the real value lies, the formula for high-quality consensus-building, and why bi-directional, exclusive networks are the optimal structure for building effective, high-trust communities.
 
Get 150:
https://150.earth/
https://twitter.com/150_inc
 
Alexander Pacheco
https://alexpacheco.substack.com/
https://twitter.com/alexandercurves
 
 
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29 - Kevin Dolan (Bennett's Phylactery): Rebooting Natalism for the 21st Century

I’m joined by cofounder and organizer of the 2023 Natal Conference in Austin, TX, Kevin Dolan.
We talk about the conception of a conference to promote having more babies, the various religious and techno-optimist factions of the Natalist Movement, environmental detriments to fertility, how we’re radically undervaluing motherhood, thought-terminating technical solutions to the fertility crisis, surrogacy, expanding freedom of association as the key to self-replicating communities, like-minded community as a solution for the alienation of motherhood, and setting sights on Natal Conference 2024.
 
“It’s not about stopping the rain, it’s about building a boat.” - Kevin Dolan
Find out about the Natal Conference: https://www.natalism.org/
Follow Kevin on X: https://X.com/extradeadjcb
 
 
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28 - Charles Rosenbauer and Olli Payne: Finding the Keys to Our Possible Futures

I am joined by Charles Rosenbauer and Olli Payne of Possibilia Magazine. Possibilia is an ambitious literary magazine showcasing realistic, optimistic science fiction. They’re bringing positive visions of the future in digital and in print—replete with short stories, nonfiction companion pieces, and illustration.
 
We talk about the constraints of keeping sci-fi optimistic and realistic, working with writers to meet these constraints, future-adjacent technologies, how private information (cryptography) beats raw compute power, SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE, optimism as a positive telos for humanity, e/acc’s death drive, the Principle of Explosion, generative art as the catalyst for up-skilling artists, stories as social technology, magic lamps, new futurism aesthetics, and the challenges of running a magazine bridging art and technology.
 
https://www.possibiliamag.com/
https://twitter.com/bzogrammer
https://twitter.com/OlliPayne
 
 
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27 - Lomez: Keeper of the Press

I speak with father of the Passage Prize and Keeper of the Passage Press, Lomez.
Passage Prize started as an open call for literary and artistic submissions to find untapped talent from the Twitter anon sphere. It quickly exceeded its initial ambitions, drawing artists both obscure and famous to claim their spot in the coveted limited run print edition book, and a share of the $20,000 prize. From the success of the Passage Prize contest, the Passage Publishing company was born.
Lomez and I speak about the origins of the Passage Prize, the hole in the market for right-of-center artists to share their work, the dearth of vitality in conservative art, surprises from the first submissions, how they selected for quality, the gap in publishing that Passage Press is aiming to fill, its relationship with Man's World and Mystery Grove Publishing, and his vision for the future of the Passage Press.
 
Buy book(s): https://passage.press/
Passage Press on X: https://x.com/PassagePress
Lomez on X: https://x.com/L0m3z
 
 
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26 - Stephen R. C. Hicks: Ayn Rand and High Romanticism

On Ayn Rand, Objectivism, the resonance of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, the development and spread of Individualism, high Romanticism, Rand's polarizing characters, the relationship between altruism and selfishness in her works and philosophy, Ayn Rand's large influence on entrepreneurs, and the intellectual subculture of Randian academics.
Stephen R. C. Hicks is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University and Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and Senior Scholar at The Atlas Society.
Site: https://www.stephenhicks.org/
 
 
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25 - Kevin MacDonald: Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy | Cofnas-MacDonald Debate, pt. 2

For part 2 of the Cofnas-Macdonald debate I interview evolutionary psychologist Kevin Macdonald. We go over his response to Nathan Cofnas' objections to the Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy laid out in "The Culture of Critique" series, his explanations for outstanding Jewish influence, conscientiousness, emotional intensity, and affect intensity as notably Jewish personality traits, Ashkenazi verbal tilt in IQ, the history of Jewish advocacy for immigration, the dispute over group-level selection in evolutionary biology, and his response to the charge of antisemitism.
 
Youtube interview: https://youtu.be/_tIut3USaFM
 
Relevant Links:
https://kevinmacdonald.net/
https://nathancofnas.com/debate-with-kevin-macdonald
https://x.com/nathancofnas
https://nathancofnas.com
 
 
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24 - Nathan Cofnas: Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy | Cofnas-MacDonald Debate, pt.1

Nathan Cofnas is Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, working in philosophy of biology and ethics. We discuss his paper “Still No Evidence for a Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy” in the context of his ongoing debate with Kevin MacDonald and "The Culture of Critique” series. We cover explanations for outstanding and disproportionate Jewish success, differences in Jewish intelligence, whether Jews are particularly ethnocentric, Jewish involvement in Multiculturalism, Liberalism, mass immigration, and other political & intellectual movements, Margherita Sarfatti and Jews’ role in Italian Fascism, and the relationship of these unanswered questions to antisemitism.
 
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https://nathancofnas.com/debate-with-kevin-macdonald
https://x.com/nathancofnas
https://nathancofnas.com
 
 
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23 - Zero HP Lovecraft: Toward a Christo-Nietzschean Synthesis

I speak with sci-fi horrorist Zero HP Lovecraft on his Six Components of Religious Experience, a functionalist approach to religion, the concept of God becoming increasingly abstract and far away (divine distance), how Christianity can benefit from Nietzsche’s bitter medicine, Christianity’s struggle with modern sexual mores, pathological altruism, why goodness is strength, regaining self-possession, submitting to tradition to gain mastery over craft, and the tension between self-love and self-abolishment driving Western man.
 
Relevant Links:
Zero HP Lovecraft on X: https://x.com/0x49fa98
Zero HP Lovecraft on Substack: https://zerohplovecraft.substack.com/
 
Toward a Functionalist Understanding of Religion - https://zerohplovecraft.substack.com/p/marooned-in-the-deepest-darkness-993
Toward a Functionalist Understanding of Religion, Pt. 2: The American Civic Religion - https://zerohplovecraft.substack.com/p/marooned-in-the-deepest-darkness-90b
Toward a Functionalist Understanding of Religion, Pt. 3: Christo-Nietzschean Synthesis - https://zerohplovecraft.substack.com/p/marooned-in-the-deepest-darkness-bad
 
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