bitcoin

Inevitability of cypherpunk for a proper civilization

Rsync25

Shit, how did I miss this?  So many thoughts crammed into one comment, you should make a post about it.  I gave some extra sats to apologize for my neglect :)

> I can totally image myself as a bored and infinite alien seeding life throughout the universe for fun. What's left to make beyond that? Other universes?

Have you seen this thing on [fun theory](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K4aGvLnHvYgX9pZHS/the-fun-theory-sequence)?  This is proximate to something I know a great deal about from an academic perspective, and the thinking on LW on this topic is absolutely top notch; and very evocative.

> We do. I feel like we're so exhausted at a cultural level we only have energy for the usual thing. Fear is the easiest emotion to manufacture. 

I wonder if this is a by-product of [goblin mode](https://stacker.news/items/317347/r/elvismercury)?

I also wonder if this is first instance of a SN conversation spilling across time and causing a SN post to forward-link to another one?  Surely not.  But possibly?

The Thiel quote is spot on.  We have, as a culture, a different macro aspiration now, a different self concept.  I guess it shouldn't surprise me -- people change how they perceive themselves, why not a civilization? -- but it's still unsettling.