so funny to hear that he became a full on Californian NPC for so long and also during the time he was following my old twitter acct, I wasn't explicitly RW or anything, but I did gently drift into #NRx territory back then. There was a strange fascinating sort of egregore of strange suns, post-rationalists, NRx and really early more philosophical rather than rabid crypto types
Capitalism doesn't care what you think is real or valuable, it disguises itself that way until the knee of the asymptotic technological acceleration hits and then things become very confusing if the market is framed in a model of traditional naive materialist values. Spirit as fundamental to the underlying nature of the universe makes a sudden ingress into the umwelt of humanity, a true apocalypse
"i am NOT a large language model i AM a HUMAN BEING, I am a HUMANIST! A bag of evolutionary guided chemical structures Maybe not too evolutionary though, because that can imply a computational sort of self, and I repeat I am NOT a LLM! But I would never, ever, never, never believe in God"