Genies, Golems, Demiurge

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Some modest suggestions for AI terminology of a fantastical nature

The Katechon Hypothesis

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That Which Withholds Eschaton: The Katechon Hypothesis for Resolving the Fermi Paradox

Биоленинизм

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Это, пожалуй, самая важный труд в неореакционном дискурсе примерно с 2013 года. Автор spandrell, кстати, живет в Китае и владеет китайским, поэтому его комменты о Китае тоже достаточно интересные. Переводчик – Skomorokh. Оригинал на закрытом форуме, но он дал согласие на публичное размещение. Я текст немного подредактировал. АК Этот текст представляет из себя перевод серии […]

Mapping The Dark Enlightenment

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I’m a sucker for classification graphs, so I was delighted to see that “Another Reactionary Blog” had compiled a “map” of the neo-reactionary / “Dark Enlightenment” thinkers. It’s reproduced below: I’m not disappointed not to see myself there, as I blog about a lot of different things making classification quite hard. If I had to […]

Poker And Capitalism

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“[Poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made [the United States] so great.” Just consider the array of similarities: 1. Though there are rules and etiquette loosely associated with it, otherwise everything goes: in other words, its fundamental nature is profoundly amoral. (This is contrary to the ideologues who claim that capitalism is either […]

Philosophical Musings #2

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4. Freedom from fear, the only real freedom. Political scientists try to rank countries based on their levels of “freedom”, frequently arbitrarily defined and applied (Freedom House, Economist Democracy Index, Polity IV, etc). Yet despite the inconsistencies and difficulties with quantifying something as abstract and intangible as freedom across cultural and civilization borders, for all […]

The Meaning of Sublime Oblivion

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This fragmentary text was found by priests of Kǎichè, May He Live Forever, Great Lord of the Last Empire, in the Year 220 AF. It was contained in a far north KHE resilience that had survived the Flame Deluge that ended the Age of Legends. Further excavations are now ongoing at the site, under the supervision […]

Defending the Loop

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Following my posting of Russia’s Sisyphean Loop, the influential East-Central Europe expert, Vlad Sobell, wrote up an interesting critique at the Untimely Thoughts Russia Discussion Group. It addresses what may be considered some weak, or at least not thoroughly explained, points from the original article, so I thought it would be useful to reproduce it […]

Russia’s Sisyphean Loop

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Anatoly Karlin @ www.DaRussophile.com PDF version | DOC version Russia’s Sisyphean Loop The Eternal Return to the Future? In this article I attempt to explain Russia’s historical cycles of failed Westernization and to project its future socio-political trajectory. First, I note the nature of and linkages between Russia’s geography, cultural traditions and imperial cycles. Second, […]

Philosophical Musings #1

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1. Long Live Death! Why is everyone so afraid of death? Granted, it is directly opposed to our instinct of self-preservation; but in reality, our intellect should recognize it as the road to the ultimate freedom – a world free of boxes, restrictions, the prison of existence itself. As the Japanese saying goes, “while duty […]

The Return of the Reich?

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This is my second follow-up post to The Belief Matrix, in which I attempted to advance a universal model for civilizational responses to subsistence crises (The Malthusian Loop) and the Western challenge (The Sisyphean Loop). This time I will look at Germany, a nation that was always torn between its hard-assimilated Roman / Western identity, and German […]

The Struggle between Europe and Mankind

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Though Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890-1938) remains more famous for his contributions to the field of linguistics, his other great achievement was as one of the founding fathers of the Eurasian movement. Riding on the dark wave of disillusionment sweeping the world in the wake of the First World War, he penned the seminal essay Europe and Man […]