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Hot take: smashing the state of mind (i.e., producing the mental and cultural conditions for statelessness) goes beyond class consciousness & requires almost everybody to ‘get’ social dynamics in cybernetic terms, at scale. It’s an anti-specialization; heuristics won’t suffice. Communities exist that already do this (ex., kink).

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Apparently, the term ‘intellectual darknet’ is trending on twitter. Is this a reference to LW, or to incel communities? Or, are people finally reading Neoreaction: A Basilisk?

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As a software engineer, being ignorant of sociology & psychology is just as bad as being ignorant of cryptography. Treat toxic communities the way you would treat any other security vulnerability: as an emergency.

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Social engineering is engineering. When you design software used by people, the community is not an externality – it’s shaped by your design, & therefore your responsibility.

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