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I've met a few Landians over the last couple years, and they generally recommend that I start with reading Land's (now defunct) Xenosystems blog, or Xenosystems, a Passage Publishing book that compiles posts from the blog. While I've read some of Fanged Noumena in the past, I would agree with these Landians that Xenosystems (and currently, the book version) is the best starting point. In the current environment, where academia has lost much of its intellectual relevance, it seems overly pretentious to start with something as academic as Fanged Noumena. I mainly write in the blogosphere rather than academia, and so Xenosystems seems appropriate to review.
The book's organization is rather haphazard (as might be expected from a blog compilation). It's not chronological, but rather separated into thematic chapters. I don't find the chapter organization particularly intuitive; for example, politics appears throughout, rather than being its own chapter [...]
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Outline:
(06:35) Neoreactionary background
(15:44) The Trichotomy
(24:16) Exiting reaction
(36:44) Outside Metaphysics
(46:19) Orthogonality versus Will-to-Think
(55:54) Meta-Neocameral Singleton?
(01:01:15) Oh my Gnon, am I going to become an AI accelerationist?
(01:12:45) Conclusion
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By LessWrongI've met a few Landians over the last couple years, and they generally recommend that I start with reading Land's (now defunct) Xenosystems blog, or Xenosystems, a Passage Publishing book that compiles posts from the blog. While I've read some of Fanged Noumena in the past, I would agree with these Landians that Xenosystems (and currently, the book version) is the best starting point. In the current environment, where academia has lost much of its intellectual relevance, it seems overly pretentious to start with something as academic as Fanged Noumena. I mainly write in the blogosphere rather than academia, and so Xenosystems seems appropriate to review.
The book's organization is rather haphazard (as might be expected from a blog compilation). It's not chronological, but rather separated into thematic chapters. I don't find the chapter organization particularly intuitive; for example, politics appears throughout, rather than being its own chapter [...]
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Outline:
(06:35) Neoreactionary background
(15:44) The Trichotomy
(24:16) Exiting reaction
(36:44) Outside Metaphysics
(46:19) Orthogonality versus Will-to-Think
(55:54) Meta-Neocameral Singleton?
(01:01:15) Oh my Gnon, am I going to become an AI accelerationist?
(01:12:45) Conclusion
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First published:
Source:
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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