The NanceCast

The Dangerous Maybe is back for a follow-up discussion all about Orthogonality!

In this episode we go deeper into both of the Nick’s, Land and Bostrom, positions; trying to tease out all the threads and follow them where they lead.

My favorite part of this episode is the discussion of Konsciousness, but I’ll leave it at that and let Mikey do the talking!

We discuss this piece from Less Wrong a bit, and this piece from the Zero Philosophy substack, as well as reading the Against Orthogonality piece in Xenosystems.

The episode ends with us asking whether or not it would be appropriate to ascribe Human values to something from the Outside, such as Cthulhu. We think not. Why, then, do so many people seem comfortable assigning Human Values to A.I.?

In this excellent episode, Mikey The Dangerous Maybe joins to discuss all things Futural. We talk about Artificial Intelligence, Human Intelligence, Acceleration and its many -isms, Subjectivity and Agency, Lack and Negation, and some of our favorite theorists and their theories!

This episode has been a long time in the making, and I am beaming with joy and pride to have it serve as the opening salvo in our fight against the Dark Future! Sit down, strap in, smoke one if you got one, and get ready to enter the Thunderdome with Mikey and me.

For those of you who may not be subscribed to Mikey on YouTube, go correct that now and make sure you turn on notifications for the channel, as here in the very near future there will be the dopest s**t you’ve seen in a minute coming out!

I’m so happy with this episode and I’m confident you will be as well, Dear Reader. Make sure you stay tuned, we got a grip of excellent s**t coming down the mountain for you!!

p.s. Mintelligence and Hintelligence are two novel terms we came up with the other day. They have grown on me an awful lot since. The discussion surrounding these terms is right near the top of the convo, and I want everyone reading this to onboard these terms and start using them everywhere!!!

Shoutouts and Bigups to Cadell Philosophy Portal , Todd, Ryan, James, Isabel, Julie, and all the homies; I believe we can continue pushing this conversation to everyone!! Also, shoutout to Damien Walter Science Fiction - I brought up Andor toward the end of the conversation, but I forgot to shout him out in the episode, do yourself a favor and go watch his excellent essay on Star Wars and subscribe to him to get the goods! Peace out, folks, and thanks!!!!

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In this episode, Sean K Mittelstaedt joins to discuss a pathology that he believes can be instructive when thinking broadly about society and culture. The inability for us to mature as Citizens and Subjects, the inability to invest time in the reflexive process of developing an Identity and reckoning with it, the inability to find a source of succor in the things most immediate to us; are keeping “us” trapped in a juvenile Narcissism that is only accelerated and intensified by The Churn.

Things came up, such as Pseudo-Communities, Pseudo-Traditions, and Pseudo-Conservatism, that we will be reconvening to discuss in a follow up to this episode soon, so stay tuned for that; but for now give this one a listen, and a think, and share your thoughts below!

Thanks, Sean, I’m glad you shared this with me and the listeners/viewers/readers following along at home - I always get a lot out of talking with you! I’m looking forward to the next one!!

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In this solo episode, I ponder effort, cringe, joy, History, and what it means to be a Digital Subject here at the precipice of a new epoch(?), or maybe it’s just me, and nothing at all is changing… Who knows? I don’t. That’s why I ask so many silly questions!!! Thanks for droppin’ in, folks! Lot’s of cool stuff on the horizon!! See ya soon!!!!

Benjamin Studebaker joins me here on the TBNCast to discuss disagreement, political action, family, love, the media environment, and more! Thank you, Benjamin, for coming on and having this conversation with me!

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In this episode I explain the name change, as this podcast is now called The TBNCast! I also talk about the super secret project I’m working on that I can’t talk about, why my neighbor sucks and is going to kill his dog, why all dogs should always sleep in a human bed every night always, theories of Time - including why The Block Universe Theory sucks ass and why a new model, let’s call it The Sudoku Universe Theory (We’ll come up with something cool later), is based and time-pilled - and some other stuff too. Good to be back!!!!

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A little update on what’s up, what I’m working on, and what I’ll be doing over the next month!!!

Oh, btw, I apologize for the bad accents. That’s actually what British people sound like, though, so it’s not my fault, blame the Queen, or something, innit?. Cheerio!

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