I don’t understand your post. Why are memetic tribes relevant to the discussion of potential existential risks; which is the basis of the original post? Is your argument that all communities have some sort of shared existential threat, that is contradictory to the other existential threats of other communities? It seems to me the point of a rationalist community should be to find the greatest existential threats and focus on finding solutions.
The basis of the original post isn’t existential threats, but narratives—ways of organizing the exponential complexity of all the events in the world into a comparatively simple story-like structure.
Here’s a list of alternative high level narratives about what is importantly going on in the world—the central plot, as it were—for the purpose of thinking about what role in a plot to take
Memetic tribes are only tangentially relevant here. I didn’t really intend to present any argument, just a set of narratives present in some other communities you probably haven’t encountered.
I don’t understand your post. Why are memetic tribes relevant to the discussion of potential existential risks; which is the basis of the original post? Is your argument that all communities have some sort of shared existential threat, that is contradictory to the other existential threats of other communities? It seems to me the point of a rationalist community should be to find the greatest existential threats and focus on finding solutions.
The basis of the original post isn’t existential threats, but narratives—ways of organizing the exponential complexity of all the events in the world into a comparatively simple story-like structure.
Memetic tribes are only tangentially relevant here. I didn’t really intend to present any argument, just a set of narratives present in some other communities you probably haven’t encountered.