[email protected] is my main [fds]Jul 7, 2024
I had never heard of TPOT, postrat or post-rationalism, but this page is unreasonably helpful; It goes in very deep, down to providing a social connection cluster map of BlueSky:

knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/tpot-postrat

Inspired to look it up by this thread on BlueSky and vibecampers (also a new term to me, also explained by the page linked above):

circumstances.run/@davidgerard/110388946777229354

/via mastodon.social/@henryfarrell/110390185739456873

#bluesky #vibecamp #postrat #postrationalism #TPOT #EffectiveAltruism
TPOT / PostRat | Know Your Meme

TPOT or Postrat is a decentralized community mostly on Twitter. TPOT, which stands for "This Part of Twitter," is an acronym used by some to refer to a gro

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Toni AittoniemiDec 23, 2023

Well worth a read: As our interconnectivity profilates and technological provess multiplies, so does belief in #magic.

It’s not just new-age hippies & faith-healers anymore, it’s silicon valley #postrationalism and #effectivealtruism going along with the #manifesting & #occult, up to even rooting for Julius Evola’s fascist magic & #traditionalism (a favourite of Russia’s Aleksandr Dugin)

Sure, if you know it’s just self-hypnosis. But record shows that slips away easy😓

https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-internet-became-the-modern-purveyor-of-ancient-magic

How the internet became the modern purveyor of ancient magic | Aeon Essays

Bending a mysterious world to your will was the goal of esoteric practices. Now it’s the unashamed aim of the tech titans

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रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Nov 27, 2023

On #Rationalism, #EffectiveAltruism, and #PostRationalism:

“Rational Magic”, The New Atlantis (https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/rational-magic).

#EliezerYudkowsky #MetaTribe #Rationality #LessWrong #OvercomingBias #SlateStarCodex

How “post-rationalism” is reshaping tech culture

Tara Isabella Burton on Silicon Valley’s Endarkenment

The New Atlantis
TeddMar 18, 2019
#ritual #rituals #rationalism #postrationalism

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/11/05/ritual-epistemology/
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Sarah Perry is a contributing editor of Ribbonfarm. If you are reading this, you are probably aware of the existence of the rationalist community. The community is characterized (broadly) by a scie…

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