Polis Labs

looks like a fantastic toolkit!! Please check it out.

When studying parallel societies or pop-up villages, one crucial variable is Michael Polanyi's concept of tacit knowledge. Not every aspect of a community's governance and organizational rules can be understood through external surveys or short-term research experiments. Researchers must engage directly with communities to surface tacit knowledge. This means a participatory, action-oriented research methodology is a nonnegotiable. This is especially true when the most valuable early-stage questions we are asking about these communities are largely qualitative. Our first research output, a field study, is in the final stage and will be produced soon. Stay tuned for updates.

War is humanity's worst impulse, largely driven by unconscious desires, ideological motivations, and irrational zero-sum game dynamics. With time, we will solve the problem of war by greatly miniaturizing our communities and creating incentives that make war too costly to wage. Some of this will result from the shifting nature of sovereignty. The individual, rather than national elites, will soon take center stage. And in them, they will possess the power of the gods. Artificial intelligence, biotech, quantum computing, zero-knowledge transactions, and a range of cultural changes will rapidly accelerate and evolve this paradigm shift. This is the kind of tech and thinking that our friends @unrulyvc focus on supporting. It is imminent. What happens over the next few decades will be incredible to behold. In my view, we must address social structural deficits now and work toward rectifying the Meaning Crisis. Those should be the primary points of focus. If not, our species could be doomed. But this is not a black pill address from the pulpit of hell. Instead, this is a clarion call for us to do better, exercise our inherent wisdom, and help shape the power of individuals with new cultural operating systems. You either get the new emergent zeitgeist, or you fall into politics as usual, a recipe for self-anhilliation. I hope the consciousness paradigm shift has truly, finally arrived.

We need to continue the push toward using powerful local LLMs. The current centralized, cloud-based AI models make us even more susceptible to data farming, surveillance, and corporate servitude. Uncompromising decentralization is still the answer.

Reboot on the Parallel Mind. This will be a more practical session, discussing the centrality of civtech and gov tech in the context of parallel society development. Important for anyone working in the space and trying to stand up novel communities.

An important lesson for emergent parallel societies: we should resist reducing individuals to roles or functions. The individual should maintain their own dignity in the social context. It's through bureaucratic objectification that societies manifest their coercive aspects.

Many crypto orgs keep hedging instead of speaking from first principles. Meanwhile, Palantir walks out as openly fascist, technocratic warmongers. If they aren't afraid to say what they are, why are we? Time to build a serious defense of freedom, agorism, and human dignity.

Guilty as charged.

I don't endemically dislike capitalism. I love the benefit it has produced. Even the "mixed economy" variety that exists has done much good for many people. However, disregard for its flaws has been and will continue to be severely consequential. Capitalism, even a fully free-market variety, produces externalized, downstream harms. The solution to the problem is not government regulation. Instead, it is radical economic pluralism, in which different networks or communities experiment with a variety of interchangeable value structures. These experiments can and will also test various self-issuing regulatory frameworks, such as yellow teaming. Forms of economic pluralism include mixed mutual aid setups, free-market syndicalism, participatory cooperatives, controlled service outputs, cosmolocal markets, and market systems with planetary checks and balances. It's through this experimentation process that we find solutions that regenerate our people, communities, and biomes rather than continuing to degrade them over time. Furthermore, we need to devise a mechanism to diminish the perverse incentives that exist in current capital-intensive environments. Namely, that the first goal of a business venture is to appease its investors, stakeholders, and shareholders, which ultimately corrupts all business outputs to maximally consider the bottom line at the expense of downstream harms. To resolve this, we must continue to develop more decentralized networks for money distribution, funding mechanisms, and capital allocation. When we address the incentive problems in markets and run open economic experiments, only then can we have true free-market activity within a framework of mutual trust and regeneration. Markets are a field vector for maximizing innovative outputs, but their proponents bear the responsibility to put checks on bottom-line-based extractionism that results from unencumbered capital-based market activity.

Carl Schmitt is having a moment on the American right, championed by figures like Peter Thiel and those in his orbit. His book "The Concept of the Political" argues that politics is inevitable and that political distinctions reduce only to friend-versus-enemy. If you adopt this as your "politics," you might be purposely trying to create enemies. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and is also an autocrat's wet dream. It creates us-versus-them divides and enables the ruling elite at the expense of everyone else. The Schmittian position greatly diminishes space for voluntary coordination and parallel institution-building. That is not a good path. It justifies "human nature equals bad" arguments and undermines genuine attempts to solve governance problems and end politicking altogether. If we want human flourishing, we must reject neoreactionaries and the idea of the political, at least as Schmitt describes it.

Tomorrow on the Lecture circuit, I will get into the importance of risk analysis within the context of the Parallel Mind architecture. Will discuss threat vectors like AI, transhumanism, and more. Will also revisit the central thesis for newcomers. twitter.com/i/spaces/1YGNr…

Today, we will have my good friend @mbauwens join us on @Logos_network to discuss post-state coordination, stigmergy, netarchical societies, and p2p mutualization. Don't miss this; Michel is one of the foremost intellectuals regarding civilizational transitions.

There is no political solution that will solve your problems or the world's problems. What we need are community efforts driven by individuals with full sovereignty and personal responsibility. We need community action and agency. This is the way. @Logos_network

Tonight, in the Parallel Mind lecture series, I'll discuss the importance of the human scale regarding the parallel components of the new Earth Mind. We will also analyze geopolitics, centrist thought, and the resolution of governance bloat. Get ready! twitter.com/i/spaces/1PKqr…

One of the most critical problems for those of us in the privacy sphere to solve is metadata. We need to anonymize it ASAP or get FUBAR. Most people do not even consider metadata to be as important as raw data. However, metadata analysis has gotten uncannily sophisticated. It is the primary substrate for the architecture of surveillance in the US. Artificial intelligence has now fully and completely upgraded metadata analysis. Now, graph analysis, social and network graphing have reached their pinnacle. This scaffolding effectively allows the government to know where any person is at any given time simply based on their relationships, "patterns of life," and living habits. Technologies like Palantir's Gotham have further enhanced the operational capabilities of this kind of tech by effectively combining different forms of analysis together. Also, get this, the same metadata surveillance tech that is used to spy on general populations is also used to escalate kill chains in warfare. This pattern-of-life metadata analysis is likely what the US military used to obtain precise location data on all Iranian leadership. So, if you have ever wondered how the US military managed such a precise assassination of Iranian leadership, this is how. It was through metadata analysis, with a mixture of "signal analysis." If we do not address metadata privacy, we will all be beholden to a significant information asymmetry compared to the major world powers. I could get a lot bleaker about where this tech is headed and what it is capable of, but I would prefer to think optimistically. We have many good people in our space working to solve these problems, but we must move as quickly as possible. This is a clarion call. Time is of the essence.

Join the Logos Circle! People are already working on solutions to real issues in their communities. Hear all about it and speak up about issues your own community is facing. x.com/i/spaces/1pKdR…

RT @SterlinLujan: I don't spend most of my time discussing geopolitics because it's a source of anxiety and a persistent black pill. But…