Can you explain why the American revolution was a conservative revolution?
in the process of destroying its own attention
Do people have thoughts on whether this is a good thing or a bad thing? I wrote some software that seems to have solved this problem for me, and I’d be interested to know if people think I should polish & release it. (I’m more skeptical than the average EA that we can easily determine the sign of EA interventions. If you can spend a few minutes brainstorming reasons why an intervention like this could backfire, and post the results as a reply to this comment, I would appreciate that. I’ve already thought of a reason that seems quite plausible to me.)
I’m currently driving across the country, looking for subcultures, intellectual communities, and other intentional communities that seem to be doing something interesting on purpose. Let me know if there’s somewhere you think I should maybe go.
Can you be more specific about what you are looking for? Would the Church of Satan qualify? Stoicon? BIL? Stuff on this list? Individuals like Shinzen Young who have developed a following? (Background: I’m a compulsive list-maker and one of my lists is a list of subcultures that seem interesting to me. But I’m not sure which would be interesting to you.)
I tried to be a bit more specific about what I am and am not looking for in Why I Am Not a Quaker (LessWrong link here). Church of Satan seems like basically watered-down Quakerism or liberalism but I might be pleasantly surprised. Almost definitionally, since I don’t already know of a group doing The Thing, and I haven’t been living under a rock any group doing The Thing must be at least somewhat hidden or eschew marketing towards people like me. (If they’re just not good at marketing despite trying, that’s a bad sign, though not fatal.)
Some monasteries might score well on this criterion. Vipassana Center does OK. Doesn’t need to be a formally incorporated institution. Shinzen Young is just a person & I’m looking for institutions, but if he’s part of an interesting lineage (i.e. if he learned from teachers who also had an interesting following, and his students themselves go and do interesting things) then he might be interesting, even if there’s no Shinzen Young Institute.
Recently I visited Arcosanti, Earthships, and the Santa Fe Institute. Currently in Chicago to visit the Committee on Social Thought.
Can you explain why the American revolution was a conservative revolution?
Do people have thoughts on whether this is a good thing or a bad thing? I wrote some software that seems to have solved this problem for me, and I’d be interested to know if people think I should polish & release it. (I’m more skeptical than the average EA that we can easily determine the sign of EA interventions. If you can spend a few minutes brainstorming reasons why an intervention like this could backfire, and post the results as a reply to this comment, I would appreciate that. I’ve already thought of a reason that seems quite plausible to me.)
Can you be more specific about what you are looking for? Would the Church of Satan qualify? Stoicon? BIL? Stuff on this list? Individuals like Shinzen Young who have developed a following? (Background: I’m a compulsive list-maker and one of my lists is a list of subcultures that seem interesting to me. But I’m not sure which would be interesting to you.)
Thanks for the offer!
I tried to be a bit more specific about what I am and am not looking for in Why I Am Not a Quaker (LessWrong link here). Church of Satan seems like basically watered-down Quakerism or liberalism but I might be pleasantly surprised. Almost definitionally, since I don’t already know of a group doing The Thing, and I haven’t been living under a rock any group doing The Thing must be at least somewhat hidden or eschew marketing towards people like me. (If they’re just not good at marketing despite trying, that’s a bad sign, though not fatal.)
Some monasteries might score well on this criterion. Vipassana Center does OK. Doesn’t need to be a formally incorporated institution. Shinzen Young is just a person & I’m looking for institutions, but if he’s part of an interesting lineage (i.e. if he learned from teachers who also had an interesting following, and his students themselves go and do interesting things) then he might be interesting, even if there’s no Shinzen Young Institute.
Recently I visited Arcosanti, Earthships, and the Santa Fe Institute. Currently in Chicago to visit the Committee on Social Thought.
Your lesswrong link is not a lesswrong link
American revolution was to defend Americans’ traditional British rights and liberties against perceived central-state aggression.