The Most Correct Computer How Urbit Wins with Philip Monk, CTO of Tlon | The Urbit Series
Philip Monk co-authored the Urbit whitepaper with Curtis Yarvin back in 2016. He's now the lead engineer working on Urbit, and a thoughtful writer as well. We discuss how to find frontiers, the philosophy of "correctness at all costs," how the current internet is captured by gradient descent, and how Urbit will achieve mass adoption.
The second of two lectures on the Information Revolution, focusing on the cultural and political implications downstream of the Information Revolution. The so-called Golden Age of broadcasting media is decimated; a closer look at "neoliberalism," the inequality effects of cable television; inequality and media capture; increasing social liberalism but economic conservatism; the decline of anti-systemic political attitudes.
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We discuss the evolution of "alt lit," the formative experience of "indie sleaze" for millennials, why party photography went out of fashion, and the gathering wave of sex negativity.
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0:00 Intro
0:53 "Thiel bucks" meme & VC funding
6:04 DefaultFriend's controversial, scandalous, & unreleasable film project
11:25 Forever mag & the alt-lit scene
21:39 angelicism01, online affectations, & the double-edged sword of trendy feigned illiteracy
26:26 Substack & professional vs amateur online writing
33:34 Online careerism & the strangeness of parasocial encounters
35:35 NFTs & Milady
36:39 Wading into Urbit
38:39 NPCC fest snub, NYC strivers, & the "indie sleaze" aesthetic
47:13 Delicious Tacos, sex negativity, & collaboration
52:23 Sex negativity as the new sex positivity
57:25 The dangers of "sexless" countercultures & fake DSM-5 identities
1:00:25 Disturbing revelations from the post-rationalist "vibecamp"
1:05:52 Surveying the schizo/autist internet subculture spectrum & where OL falls on it
1:10:12 The contemporary content creation landscape & the immortality of the podcast
1:13:45 Dating app hellscape to inceldom pipeline
1:17:16 Closing words
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As an academic, I'm friends with a lot of highly educated, progressive women, often international and cosmopolitan. Last night hanging out with some people, it struck me that many educated progressive women think quite poorly of women interested in "traditional gender roles." I think that's wrong for a few reasons. Feminism should extend also to women who believe women are better off playing traditionally female-gendered roles. It's not clear what is the best path for different women, so I reject the idea popular in progressive circles that there's something necessarily reactionary about "trad" women.
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