Mike Brock 🇺🇸

The Thing About Economics and Culture ... On bitcoin culture, intellectual fraudulence and social responsibility.

Every day is an opportunity to change your ways.
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-thing-...

Marco is obviously mistaken since Trump ended this war. Everyone knows this.

Yes. My paper counts that as “conscious”. You have to read the whole thing.

Care to expand?

I credit @seanmcarroll.bsky.social’s Biggest Ideas in the Universe Book and YouTube series, as well as listening to hours and hours of his AMA episodes for giving me the conceptual infrastructure to propose this interpretation, paired with my computer science and philosophy background.

Sorry. It was shared as private. Link works now.

Folks who’ve been following my project know I’ve been trying to build a coherent framework around complementarity, Humean epistemics, etc.

Here is a pre-publish draft of a new paper that pushes that work into the physics/philosophy boundary. Sharing it publicly and hoping for serious eyes on it.

I need to talk to somebody in theoretical physics and someone who is an expert in quantum interpretation. If you can help, let me know.

It’s related to Hume.

Hey @seanmcarroll.bsky.social, I have a metaphysical critique of MWI and I would love to talk to you.

The Beautiful Release A meditation on humanism

Love is possible. That is my faith.

In other words, it's Monday.

Humility A meditation on intellectual courage.

On intellectual courage.

Honestly, at this point, I'd be okay pardoning Trump for all his crimes and letting him ride off into the darkness if he got out of the way and let us prosecute all the cretins around him. He is not long for this world, anyway. If such an offer were possible, I'd make it.

AMERICANS! YOUR GOLDEN AGE HAS ARRIVED! BEHOLD YOUR NEW GLISTENING KINGDOM OF PLENTY!

Not yet.

Value-aligned investors and team.

I have a pretty killer startup idea for anybody in Silicon Valley who still gives a shit about human civilization, wants to give democracy a fighting chance, and wants to make an honest buck doing it.

If you're not against what's happening everywhere, you're in favor of it.

The 21st Century is a New Dark Age An open letter to the intellectual community.

I hereby declare ...

The truth is, we are already in a new Dark Age, intellectually. We just haven't admitted it to ourselves from within intellectual culture. It's a scary thought. But let me tell you: it is true. There is no slide back to normal. It's a grueling fight forward.

The Mafia Believed in a Leviathan. American Moguls Believe They Are Leviathan A meditation on moral codes

I'd rather have an Italian mafioso in the White House than Trump. He'd be making side deals, but his mother would never let him do the ICE raids.

The Great Specialization of Civilizations A meditation on geopolitics.

The shape of the realignment has become somewhat clear. And boy, is it a sight to behold. In pathos, that is.

Monsters Everywhere It didn't start out being about Ben Shapiro, but it's about Ben Shapiro.

This is an essay that is mostly about Ben Shapiro.

Narcissism A meditation on our epistemic culture.

Someone has to talk about this.

Monsters Everywhere It didn't start out being about Ben Shaprio, but it's about Ben Shaprio.

I didn't know this would be about Ben Shapiro when I started writing this. But I think it's fair to say it's about Ben Shapiro.

I mean, if these justices relent in Trump's direction, I would see that as a form of treason, personally.

A Personal Note, from the Circus A meta-meditation on authenticity

A personal note.

On Elitism A meditation, since the accusation has been made.

Thoughts about thoughts.

I'm not elitist. I'm intellectually hygienic. I'm on the people's side.