The idea that a State would have public lamps with that much time and effort into lighting them is nuts from a 2024 perspective where the safety of public light is moot in our openly zombified streets where the lamplighter would be beaten and robbed in a second.
Carlyle had the same idea: People need to feel productive, or society rots. If they don't want to be productive, it is imperative to force them to be productive.
Especially when read along the first Sam Altman essay. It’s important to think about prosperity vs luxury. Luxury seems to be the end goal of Materialism, and it’s challenging to formulate a good argument against it. This is an important essay
Appreciate this work. I’m a progressive. I was told Yarvin had dangerous ideas. Maybe. Don’t know that I’m smart enough to have an opinion. I do like his writing. Sounds like a man having fun. Sounds like what I thought about Nietzsche reading TSZ. ‘I don’t know what you are getting at, but I love your zeal.’ I like your website too. If there is one thing Yarvin, you and I can agree on maybe, it’s we miss the old internet.
Between Yarvin being an intentional edgelord and being hard to understand, his views often get misrepresented, though they are unconventional. And thank you, I'm busy rewriting the website since I've let it rot, but am still keeping to the old web aesthetic.
@@SørenZeleaMishima A lot more of Mishima's essays are translated, but have since been paywalled, and I want to respect the translator's hustle. But if anyone could help me in finding the original sources and translating them I would be more than happy to render audiobooks.
@@pbanks Masaki lives in Tokyo I will go and harass him into making them free, blackmail him over his famous "just popped a boner on the subway" tweet.
You don’t need to trust him, my friend. He has stated himself that he is attempting to persuade people with power because they are the only ones who can have an impact for the good of everyone.
People will use their UBI checks to buy their own robots that will grow their own food, and help meet their own needs. Once AGI exists people will be empowered beyond imagination.
Lamplighter would've been an awesome job
walking around the city at dusk, lots of fresh air, lighting flames
it's basically like playing Dark Souls
The idea that a State would have public lamps with that much time and effort into lighting them is nuts from a 2024 perspective where the safety of public light is moot in our openly zombified streets where the lamplighter would be beaten and robbed in a second.
lots of fresh air [citation needed]
Yarvin has a knack for expressing the ideas I’m starting to formulate.
Gosh darn, this is a good one.
AI Orson Welles reading aloud Yarvin's screed on AI is what the kids used to call "Meta."
Carlyle had the same idea: People need to feel productive, or society rots. If they don't want to be productive, it is imperative to force them to be productive.
This is great
This is an important essay
Especially when read along the first Sam Altman essay.
It’s important to think about prosperity vs luxury. Luxury seems to be the end goal of Materialism, and it’s challenging to formulate a good argument against it. This is an important essay
Appreciate this work. I’m a progressive. I was told Yarvin had dangerous ideas. Maybe. Don’t know that I’m smart enough to have an opinion. I do like his writing. Sounds like a man having fun. Sounds like what I thought about Nietzsche reading TSZ. ‘I don’t know what you are getting at, but I love your zeal.’
I like your website too. If there is one thing Yarvin, you and I can agree on maybe, it’s we miss the old internet.
Between Yarvin being an intentional edgelord and being hard to understand, his views often get misrepresented, though they are unconventional.
And thank you, I'm busy rewriting the website since I've let it rot, but am still keeping to the old web aesthetic.
I have been worried Yarvins return to urbit would slow down his writing and or make his takes "safer" - glad to see thats not the case!
He returned to Urbit?
@@sanjacobs6261 yeah - they fired the CEO and then Yarvin stepped in as "wartime ceo" of tlon corp
he's still a clown with a cult of personality flamed by nimrods a tiny bit wiser than the modern cult.
@@BakerWase Wow, cool! It'll be interesting to see if this causes Urbit to make a bigger splash.
I'm glad the monarchist figured out that a project as ambitious as Urbit needs a monarch.
This is one of his best pieces in a while. This is more of a diss at me than him, but his writing has been far more coherent lately
More Yarvin please 🙏
we are back!
actually one of the most bone chilling things he ever wrote
chilling if true, but I felt it was more of a stretch than your average Gray Mirror essay
Yarvin really loves the sound of his own voice.
and so should everyone
More from Mishima
Yup, more Mishima essay translations are desperately needed.
@@SørenZeleaMishima A lot more of Mishima's essays are translated, but have since been paywalled, and I want to respect the translator's hustle. But if anyone could help me in finding the original sources and translating them I would be more than happy to render audiobooks.
@@pbanks Masaki lives in Tokyo I will go and harass him into making them free, blackmail him over his famous "just popped a boner on the subway" tweet.
Anyone else find this shit hilarious?
Initially I had narrated some of Yarvin's works myself, but had a lot of retakes due to laughing.
@@pbanks the stakes are so high. And keep climbing higher.
Lmao “so east bay”
Curtis Yarvin is just a broad as Sam Altman.
I would trust Yarvin more if he was not pushed by Malice and Lex
If that makes you hesitant wait until you see the photos of the degenerate dregs at his parties.
Lex seems to not want to have anything to do with Yarvin at all
You don’t need to trust him, my friend. He has stated himself that he is attempting to persuade people with power because they are the only ones who can have an impact for the good of everyone.
@@famemolto how u mean
Malice is cool, Lex is another story...
Post scarcity AI communism can work. As depicted in Iain M Banks' Culture Novels.
People will use their UBI checks to buy their own robots that will grow their own food, and help meet their own needs. Once AGI exists people will be empowered beyond imagination.
insane hands typed this
@@mememagician97 indeed
the economy doesn't add up
I'd much rather not get UBI cheques, not have a robot, and instead grow my own food.
@@pbanks no one is stopping you