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Take Abul Barakat’s claim that the infatuation with the Neoplatonic tripartite typology of time among Muslims was unnecessary fugazi obfuscating a simpler, just “Time,” then graft it onto Akbarian ontology. Be a Sufi B-Theorist?

Anti-aging is low-hanging fruit in terms of 'achievable sci-fi tech', but an immortalized gerontocracy would be catastrophic. Death (and the replacement of old stock via sexual reproduction) is a blessing, much as the act of forgeting is a mercy to the mind

Vanguards form around people, not states or ideas. Maybe this is a flaw in the human soul, because all people must die. Hero-embodiment is the only way a state can exert its will to exist. Nothing deserves to exist in and of itself, there’s no ontological right to survival. The

On the Chinese internet the prevailing theory is not that the United States is like the Qing, but it is like the Ming. There is even a wikipedia page detailing the similarities seen: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruguanxue

Anyone serious is transhumanist and should pause at the 2nd question- whether you aspire to metaphysical existence, extinction of the self, biological bootloader for AI, man as a transitory state between beast and Uberman, man as a fungible economic or Darwinian unit, etc

The largely post-facto nature of religious legal traditions doesn’t offers them the ability to be “Butlerian.” At best you might hope they learn to tell a compartmentalised tale wherein augmentation of the body doesn’t impede on faith’s claim to the self.

It's said that the unsealing of Timur's sarcophagus coincided with Operation Barbarossa -- imagine the great tumult and cleansing that would accompany Alexander's

Why is there a vacant space below the rest of the marble, and why does that overhang of marble not collapse into the space? Is this AI-generated?

Is my face that Amerigoblined that it can’t give any higher population alignments? None of these ethnicities are close to what I am

Thiel’s anxiety is less “resentment against nature” and more a hubristic fear that entropy will pause and even reverse the constant acceleration achieved by the technologies of the West, and that human nature will emerge entirely unchanged despite 500 years of this turbulence

Birds in Mughal art are some of the most beautiful things ever.

Third worlders have no idea that they’re entering the Maw of Death when they migrate to the West. They weren’t built for a liberal culture; they’re the ideal prey for dopamine tech. They will stare slack jawed into the Neon Cyberabyss while their children become sterile furries

Very strong issue from The Polycrisis

In the original Jurassic Park (book), there is mention of resurrected Mezosoic flora that secrete indigestible alkaloids and exotic toxins long since erased from our biosphere. Would've been interesting to explore if those spread invasively like kudzu

Epstein-Barr virus (mono) can cause severely distorted perception of shape by infecting the temporo-occipital carefour of the brain, called Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome

New pet theory. Classical paganism died during the Axial Age because new civilizational prosperity allowed the Fellaheen to manifest their tacky tastes everywhere which could not but repulse elites. Their gods became objects of mockery and ridicule so they turned to new ones.

Thinking about the dogma of the modern Chinese Communist Party: there is no salvation but in the machine. He who tames and expands with the machine is saved. He who refuse its salvation is crushed under its wheels. So it is.

“You’ve read Land as well?” ‘Just read a little Whitehead and took shrooms actually’

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