writing a book about network states
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Sam Venis retweeted
My book Anti-Singularity is out in print today!
If you're interested in a philosophical conversation around AI, Bay Area Rationalism, doomerism, accelerationism and alternative futures, order a copy from Network Press
network.press/products/anti-…
This is a timely follow up to @pmarca's Techno Optimist Manifesto.
Anti-Singularity is a profound, well reasoned argument against AI doomerism, with a recommendation on what should take its place.
Sam Venis retweeted
One of the many memorable images from this intrepid piece of reporting by @samfromvenis, on the Network School in Malaysia
Sam Venis retweeted
The Tech Right’s project to escape from politics— @samfromvenis reports from the frontier of the Network State
Sam Venis retweeted
Network states a la @balajis are a utopian (or, depending on who you talk to, dystopian) abstraction. To see what they are like in practice, there is no one better documenting the reality than @samfromvenis. Worth a read if you are interested in this strange and increasingly
For @the_point_mag, I wrote about "infiltrating" @balajis network school in Malaysia, the mold problem in Forest City, and how it all imploded out of hubris and arrogance
thepointmag.com/politics/no-…
Sam Venis retweeted
Finally all the insane shit from @ns is coming out
Its been an open secret for a while but it's truly insane how this infolded
For @the_point_mag, I wrote about "infiltrating" @balajis network school in Malaysia, the mold problem in Forest City, and how it all imploded out of hubris and arrogance
thepointmag.com/politics/no-…
For @the_point_mag, I wrote about "infiltrating" @balajis network school in Malaysia, the mold problem in Forest City, and how it all imploded out of hubris and arrogance
thepointmag.com/politics/no-…
Sam Venis retweeted
People tend to imagine that Nazi antisemitism happened because people woke up one day and fancied themselves racially superior.
Their own Jew hatred is different. It has *reasons*.
But Nazi antisemitism had "reasons" too: It was attached to real political issues of the time, and above all, the collapse of liberalism.
compactmag.com/article/the-o…
I wrote about Hannah Arendt
A searching essay by @samfromvenis on Hannah Arendt's account of the emergence of virulent political antisemitism out of the collapse of the old European order—and the question of whether this history is repeating itself today:
compactmag.com/article/the-o…
german word for the desire to be moved by a book but the creeping sense that nothing will hit quite right
