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3/ The metatribe is neither nihilist nor locked onto an ethical system. It has political opinions without being left, right, or center. These opinions are provisional, nondogmatic, but strongly investigated, so metatribers often appear to be "heterodox" or "Chad centrist" https://t.co/ZdhFZLHFK1
5/ Metatribe members tend to be at the center of a Venn diagram with many circles, often dwelling at the edge of many subcultures at once, acting as nodes between them. https://t.co/elXlZcHnrs
6/ Metatribe members tend to be multi-hyphenate: artist-scientist; dancer-entrepreneur; programmer-monk. Their work often synthesizes multiple disciplines at once. https://t.co/LlxvEwAQFw
8/ For all this, you might expect metatribe members to be noncommittal to a cause. In reality, they're more likely to do cause prioritization. Popularly prioritized causes include existential risk and the meaning crisis.https://t.co/oXAsFYZLKc
10/ There are many In-roads to the metatribe. They include:⢠@lesswrong ⢠Daniel Schmactenberger⢠Game B⢠@Meaningness⢠Michael Vassar⢠Effective Altruism⢠@SamoBurja ⢠Bay Area subcultures⢠@EricRWeinstein's Portal podcast ⢠@LeverageRes ⢠Ephemerisle
11/ [cont.]⢠@MonasticAcademy ⢠The Castle festival⢠@ribbonfarm and @vgr ⢠The former "Thielosphere"⢠@slatestarcodex ⢠Foresight Institute⢠Take 3⢠@vervaeke_john⢠The Embassy Network⢠@newmodality⢠Postrat Twitter (eg @eigenrobot and @0x49fa98)
12/ Canonical texts of the metatribe include Dune, Thinking Fast and Slow, Foundation, the Sequences, The Matrix, and Impro. Yes, here is me shilling Dune again bc Herbert described the mindset of metatribe back in 1965. The culture has only recently caught up. https://t.co/dM5EW0NuGZ
13/ The metatribe is an inevitable reaction to postmodernism and globalism. As the world fractured into a million narratives, the mind still strove for integration. I will do a separate thread on why I think the metatribe is coming together now.
14/ Toward the end of 2020 and start of 2021, the rise of remote work will finally enable the metatribe to gather from across the world to form in-person community. My group is working on this with our castle search & there are other effortshttps://t.co/e7GQfeMBiJ
15/ In March, I gave a talk with Foresight Institute called âThe renaissance came from the plague.âhttps://t.co/UZL0ACcJ5W
17/ Here's a follow-up thread on metatribe maladies and antidotes: https://t.co/RqP8ZGIRvy
18/ Here's a talk that's kind of like a video version of this thread: https://t.co/FOyF4OSrdC
19/ This tweet is good metatribe satire: https://t.co/29cVqgXuwT
Should have included The Stoa on here also: https://t.co/5CIf4Z7Ip9
@TylerAlterman This reminds me of the short story Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies by @gregeganSF (more than reminds actually, it's really close) https://t.co/eOFypb3ZXC
@TylerAlterman sounds v sensible. Despite setting off my reflexive cynical radar, I'm onboard, and lighting beacons is a noble cause https://t.co/5MLGSSvCJa
the meaning can't live in the words, because anyone can *say* the words, even if they don't mean it theres a rut I can get stuck in, trying to "avoid sounding fake". A cynical attitude towards authenticity eventually removes ALL things you could say and forces you into silence