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- <s>Al Fin</s> Original Al Fin blog — Blocked by Google
- AetherCzar The Hidden Truth
- Al Fin Family of Blogs All the Al Fin blogs since 2005
- Al Fin, The Dangerous Child The Dangerous Child Blog
- An Audacious Epigone A statistical look at important social issues of the day
- Anthony Watts Independent and irreverent look at the turbulent world of climate change
- Anti Puritan Axel McKibbens Neoreaction Blog
- Anti-Feminist Tech Pro Technology, Pro Future, Anti Hag-Nags
- Bayou Renaissance Man Eclectic blog from the better informed backwaters of the bayou
- Brian Wang's NextBigFuture Optimistic Science & Technology Future Website
- Chaos Manor Independent Views of Author Jerry Pournelle
- Climate etc. Judith Curry on Climate
- Dark Enlightenment News Dynamic Gateway to Neoreaction News and Articles
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- HBD Chick Notable for a wealth of information along with a useful blogroll
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- IQ, Personality, Genius Bruce Charlton looks at human intelligence
- Isegoria A long lived eclectic blog with spirit
- Joanne Jacobs Thinking on Education
- Let a Thousand Nations Bloom A thousand possible futures of government
- Lion of the Blogosphere Nocturnal Predator of the Dark Enlightenment
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- Neil Craig Lone Scottish Wolf howling at the dark night of human politics
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- Addicted to Distraction Bruce Charlton Looks at Mass Delusion
- An Unsettling Climate by Rupert Darwall Tales of the climate apocalypse movement
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- Basic Energy Primer Nuclear Energy vs. Intermittent Energy: Safety, Cost, Reliability
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- Black Book of Communism It’s Killed 100 million, and it’s not finished yet!
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- Dysgenics by Richard Lynn 250 pp free ebook on decline of the global human genome
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- Nick Land's Dark Enlightenment The Dark Enlightenment Series
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- Orwell's 1984 A fictitious dark future that sometimes seems all too possible
- Popper: Logic of Scientific Discovery Popper’s classic text on growing sound science
- Race Differences in Cognitive Ability (30 Years) Black-White IQ differences persist over time
- Readings on Philosophy of Science, Physics, Maths Miscellaneous readings of interest
- Richard Feynman Physics Lectures 3 vol. Online Read Feynman’s famous physics lectures free online
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- Robinson Self-Taught Homeschool Curriculum A gift of cognitive and motive independence
- Scientific Understanding of Consciousness Useful Gateway to Modern Research on Consciousness
- Survivor Library Files Survival/prepper file flood
- Text Files . com Copious text files on forbidden and not forbidden topics
- The Industry Handbook Quick and useful overview of a number of industrial sectors for investors
- The Law Frederic Bastiat’s classic critique of socialism and democracy
- The Nuclear Energy Option Online Ebook Free online ebook by by Bernard L Cohen
- Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions On Scientific Paradigm Shifts
- Why Wind Won't Work Clear explanation of the many problems with wind energy in a 30 pp PDF document
Optimism
- Bjorn Lomborg Getting the facts straight
- Brian Wang's NextBigFuture Optimistic Science & Technology Future Website
- Grey Enlightenment Conservatively optimistic economics/finance
- John McCarthy: Sustained Progress How Scientific and Technological Progress can be Sustained
- Julian Simon Online works of Julian Simon, eternal optimist
- Lifeboat Foundation blog Blog of the futurist Lifeboat Foundation
- Matt Ridley Rational Optimism
- Mike Rowe Works Foundation Correcting the Skills gap
- Patri Friedman and Seasteading Projects of Patri Friedman, grandson of Milton, son of David
- Peter H. Diamandis' website X Prize, Singularity University, Planetary Resources, etc.
- Ray Kurzweil Kurzweil’s Singularity
- Robert Bryce Better Living Through Technology
- Seasteading Institute Quest for Free Living on the Oceans
- The Arts Mechanical An exploration of the technologies that affect our lives
Category Archives: Philosophy
Mind the Brain
The better you can understand your brain, the better you can understand your own mind. And understanding your own mind is an open door to self-liberation and freedom. Short of that, every human being is a slave to mindless habits, … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Human Brain, Learning Theory, Optimism, Philosophy
Tagged Brain, Mastery
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Delusions, Obsessions, and Ideologies in the Age of Trump
Delusions are unfounded but tightly held beliefs. Everyone is prone to forming delusions — in fact it can be said that human life is built upon systems of delusions, depending upon one’s upbringing. Ordinary delusions, as opposed to pathological delusions, … Continue reading
Posted in Everything You Think You Know Just Ain't So, Groupthink, Ideology, Knowledge, Philosophy
Tagged Groupthink
The Government Is Not the Country
My kind of loyalty was to one’s country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Groupthink, Ideology, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Alternative Government, Google, Political Philosophy
How to Find Happiness in an Unhappy World
Dimensions of Happiness Happiness is almost never where you think you will find it. If you become too impatient — if you never learn how to set the table and allow happiness to come to dinner — you may set … Continue reading
Is Your Life NOT a Journey?
Longer and longer lives for fewer and fewer people born in the civilised world. What is it all about? Is it possible that our “metaphor” for life — a journey from birth to death — prevents us from living the … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Pram
Tagged Philosophy
Bypassing the Overlords: Building a New World Without Asking Permission
A Neocameral Future from The Anti-Puritan Axel McKibben has begun work on a series of articles describing how a brighter, braver, and more honest sort of thinker and actor might set about creating a better world — without arguing with … Continue reading
Posted in Dark Enlightenment, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged neoreaction
Ideology and the Dangerous Child
A child is born with innate reflexes, instincts, predispositions, aptitudes, and limitations. When confronted with the outside world, the child begins to assimilate experiences of the world into his internal milieu — and he is permanently changed, every single day. … Continue reading
Posted in Dangerous Child, Ideology, Philosophy
Tagged Dangerous Child, Infrastructure, Philosophy
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Happiness Deconstructed
What is Happiness? First, a few things that happiness IS NOT: bitter hostility, helpless loneliness, a despairing dearth of choices, a lack of personal confidence based upon genuine personal incompetence, the absence of any meaningful purpose. The Happiness of Pleasure … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedicine, Dangerous Child, Longevity, Philosophy
Tagged happiness, longevity, Philosophy
Building a Positive Future Instead of Tearing it Down
We have discovered through hard trial and error that a society without a sense of larger purpose drifts into nihilism and despair. __ ColonyofCommodus To build a future, people must have a sense of purpose — “a larger purpose” than … Continue reading
Posted in Disruptive Technologies, Economics, expansive future, Future, Media, Philosophy, Propaganda, Space Future
Tagged Elon Musk, Philosophy, Space
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Learning to Transcend Failure is a Necessary Part of Growing Up
The following article is adapted from a posting published earlier on The Dangerous Child blog How Can Children Master Financial Skills by Age 18? Humans learn best by trying — by going out on the limb for something. Early tries … Continue reading
Posted in careers, Competence, Dangerous Child, Everything You Think You Know Just Ain't So, Groupthink, Philosophy, University
Tagged Education, risk
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Complex Evolving Systems
More on Why Everything You Think You Know Just Ain’t So The idea of complex evolving systems grew out of the somewhat simpler concept of “complex adaptive systems.” The difference is that the evolving systems not only adapt and survive … Continue reading
The Deep Insight at the Moment of Death
insight (plural insights) A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into. Power of acute observation and deduction; penetration; discernment; perception. … Intuitive apprehension of the inner nature of a … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy
Tagged Mind
Is the Dark Enlightenment in Danger of Becoming Another Ideology?
In a very real sense, a philosophy is a way of life which may incorporate but does not embody a political agenda. On the other hand, ideology is usually based in theory, the precepts of which often have little or … Continue reading
Posted in Dark Enlightenment, Dysgenics, Ideology, Idiocracy, Philosophy, Propaganda, Utopia
Tagged Political Philosophy
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Distinctions that Make a Difference
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” -Kurt Vonnegut Almost everyone wants to be strong and independent, free from external manipulation and indoctrination. Part of the process of shielding ourselves … Continue reading
You Are Deluded
Commentary on excerpts from Dr. Bruce Charlton’s online e-book “Addicted to Distraction” Mass Media is a system like no other – it has no function of its own, so it can just keep growing. It has no positive aim for … Continue reading
We Are Marching to Utopia . . . We Will Soon Be There! 2015 Reprise
First published on the original Al Fin blog …optimists and idealists — with their ignorance about the truths of human nature and human society, and their naive hopes about what can be changed — have wrought havoc for centuries….instead of … Continue reading
A World Full of Simplistic Logic
Humans base much of their lives on the flimsiest of logic. Most human brains are lazy, if not lazy and stupid. They will take a simple idea “that they just know is true,” then build wildly ambitious ideologies and belief … Continue reading
Signs of an Educated Person: Falsifiability
How do you know whether a claim is true or false? One of the first things to consider is whether or not the claim can ever be proven true, or proven false — and if so, how? The ability to … Continue reading
Contradiction and Consistency
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald, “ One of the keys to clear and fertile thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Groupthink, Philosophy
Tagged contradiction, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Past, Present, Future: Our Hidden Puppet Strings
We move through our present lives largely unaware of how strongly we are affected and controlled by our subconscious images of past and future. Imaginations of the future and memories of the past can affect us in the present in … Continue reading
Posted in Future, History, Philosophy
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Knowledge vs. Belief
Knowledge: “… a familiarity, awareness or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired through experience or education by perceiving, discovering, or learning. Knowledge can refer to a theoretical or practical understanding of … Continue reading
Posted in Knowledge, Philosophy
Logical Fallacies: Begging the Question
Internet comments are a treasure trove of logical fallacies. Argumentum ad hominem may be the most popular commenters’ fallacy. But “begging the question” or “begs the question” occupies a special place in the hall of fallacies for the many times … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy
Tagged logical fallacies
Some Basic Reading via Nick Land
If a person doesn’t understand the background and historical parallels that help clarify current events, he cannot make sense of what is happening or where things are likely to go. Most of the important data is concealed, so that one … Continue reading
Love Hurts, Truth Hurts, Beauty Hurts, But Suicide is Painless?
Life is hard, and then you die . . . attributed to Adam, husband of Eve, after having eaten of the fruit of the tree Life is what happens to us when we are making other plans. __ Allen Saunders … Continue reading
