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21 observations from people watching

Painting weddings for a few years now, I have spent a fair bit of time observing strangers move through a room.

skincontact.substack.com · 12 May

Techgnosis Manifesto - 1. Preserve The Human Experience

Learn more about our upcoming community call & the first manifesto point

techgnosiscollective.substack.com · 12 May

Technology is Re-Enchanting the World

Bouba Science, Silicon Sorcery, and HexTech

consciousness magic @Substack

octopusyarn.substack.com · 11 May

Your phone is why you don't feel sexy

Eros, desire, instinct, eternity

catherineshannon.substack.com · 8 May

technofeudalism and the death of serendipity

I’ve always been a stubborn holdout against food delivery apps.

magic @Substack

etymology.substack.com · 8 May

Towards a systemic investing approach for wisdom infrastructure

What if we invested in wisdom cultivation like we do in cities and infrastructure—Creating the wisdom infrastructure and commons that can provide l...

ecologiesofwisdom.substack.com · 8 May

Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective

What if the most game-optimal play in the new system is actually to become relentlessly, unapologetically you?

fakepixels.substack.com · 8 May

What does it mean to be in a Post-Future world?

The future isn’t ahead of you—it’s inside of you

ecologiesofwisdom.substack.com · 8 May

Home | Substack

Nietzsche, Vajrayana, and nobility

metaphysics buddhism @Substack

substack.com · 8 May

Lately in the SPACE

but starting back in September 2024

metamodernism @Substack

johnstokdijk538.substack.com · 4 Feb

A techno-pessimist manifesto

"One can easily see Trotsky at Burning Man."

climate change @Substack

graymirror.substack.com · 3 Feb

Mondragon as the new City-State

This cooperative could be its own country.

substack.com · 3 Feb

Alberto Romero on Substack

The current state of AI isn't a technological revolution; it’s humanity’s ultimate act of procrastination. We’re not building machines to solve pr...

AI climate change @Substack

Substack · 3 Feb

The Pull

Its physical source is the screen, whether on a phone or computer. Its digital source comes from email, messaging apps, or social media. Its emotio...

lessfoolish.substack.com · 3 Feb

My mind transformed completely, and there were some tradeoffs

sashachapin.substack.com · 3 Feb

From Rebel Wisdom to Kainos

Announcing a new media platform for a new era

Rebel Wisdom @Substack

beiner.substack.com · 3 Feb

The three civilizational priorities of the next societal transition

Can We Truly Change Our Civilizational Model? What we can learn from Peter Pogany's 'Rethinking the World'.

4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com · 3 Feb

What would an awakened approach to technology design look like?

The X, Y, and Z where technology and spirituality can meet

unexaminedtechnology.substack.com · 31 Jan

What would transcendental technology design look like?

Transcendence: the Y axis of where technology and spirituality can meet

unexaminedtechnology.substack.com · 31 Jan

What would immanent technology design look like?

Immanence: the X axis where technology and spirituality can meet

unexaminedtechnology.substack.com · 31 Jan

What would relational technology design look like?

Relationality: the Z axis where technology and spirituality can meet

unexaminedtechnology.substack.com · 31 Jan

The Cosmo-Local Plan for our Next Civilization

Towards a convergence of the local bioregional resilient production efforts with the global coordination and 'Capital for the Commons' capacities o...

4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com · 15 Jan

Get Ready for AI Religions: Sam Altman, Transhumanism and The Merge

How AI is changing spirituality, and what it means for our collective fate

beiner.substack.com · 15 Jan

The Dissolution of "Man"

And the revelation of a new epistemic order

AI artificial intelligence @Substack

danielpinchbeck.substack.com · 15 Jan

Partial Intelligence and Super-intelligence

What hath God wrought?

AI Charles Eisenstein consciousness @Substack

charleseisenstein.substack.com · 15 Jan

Intelligence in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Let’s start with the obvious.

AI artificial intelligence Charles Eisenstein @Substack

charleseisenstein.substack.com · 15 Jan

In The Context Of Long Context

What happens when you can instantly transform an entire book into a playable simulation? That—and much more—is now possible thanks to the long cont...

adjacentpossible.substack.com · 14 Jan

How Agentfi accelerates ‘The Weirdening’

Some call it hyperstition, I call it "The Weirdening." The idea is this: technological acceleration unlocks the ability to will virtually anything ...

redphone.substack.com · 14 Jan

After Psychedelics

What is to be done with a broken open mind?

psychedelics @Substack

dragonflyagony.substack.com · 14 Jan

10 reasons for an existential crisis (and some hope)

Overview of AI Risks - December 2024

AI capitalism @Substack

welf.substack.com · 14 Jan

December in LLMs has been a lot

Plus notes on OpenAI's o3, and my approach to running a link blog

simonw.substack.com · 27 Dec 2024

Model Integrity

You may want a compliant assistant, but a co-founder with integrity. We propose ‘model integrity’ as an overlooked challenge in aligning LLM agents.

meaningalignment.substack.com · 27 Dec 2024

Glitter: When Form becomes Content

The Art of Vibestition

octopusyarn.substack.com · 26 Dec 2024

Alignment at Large

Bending the Arc of History Towards Life-Affirming Futures

AI artificial intelligence capitalism @Substack

welf.substack.com · 26 Dec 2024

Wisdom is Frame Wizardry (1/2)

Metacognition: Recognising and Breaking Frames

octopusyarn.substack.com · 26 Dec 2024

Wisdom is Frame Wizardry (2/2)

Relevance Realization and Soulmaking: Choosing and Crafting Frames

octopusyarn.substack.com · 26 Dec 2024

Announcing Cosmos Ventures

Fast grants to build provocative prototypes at the intersection of technology and human flourishing

cosmosinstitute.substack.com · 10 Sep 2024

Companionship without companions

It always seems strange to me that when “chat” is proposed as a mode of information retrieval.

robhorning.substack.com · 29 Aug 2024

The Body Is an Ecodelic

Outtake from upcoming memoir The Body Is a Doorway

sophiestrand.substack.com · 29 Aug 2024

Molly, Monks, MAPS and Mayhem

The Psychedelic Renaissance is Dead, Long Live the Psychedelic Underground!

Jamie Wheal psychedelic @Substack

jamiewheal.substack.com · 29 Aug 2024

Hard thing about hard things re building a wiser world

Or why McGilchrist and the intellectuals of a second renaissance miss the point: it's about the how more than the what

rufuspollock.substack.com · 22 Aug 2024

Many Names, One Ecosystem? Deciphering the Different Terms for a Second Renaissance Movement

In recent years, we have been observing the emergence of a global network of people and organisations who are acting to catalyse, steward and accel...

secondrenaissance.substack.com · 1 Aug 2024

Second Renaissance: what's in a name?

We outline the reasons that led us to adopt the term second renaissance for this moment of civilizational crisis & awakening - recognising that it ...

secondrenaissance.substack.com · 1 Aug 2024

Introducing Humans On The Loop

Help me launch a bold new series on decision-making in the age of automation!

michaelgarfield.substack.com · 1 Aug 2024

My Week of Magical Thinking

A Jhourney retreat report

psychedelics @Substack

jakeeaton.substack.com · 25 Jun 2024

The Mythic Rebellion: Why The Far Right Keeps Winning

Immigration, European elections, and Trump's America

beiner.substack.com · 20 Jun 2024

Three Forces Dividing Us

Tribalism, Colonialism and Capitalism

Jamie Wheal capitalism @Substack

jamiewheal.substack.com · 20 May 2024

🙏🏽⛩🤖 219 - Joshua Schrei on Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I.

On Innovation, Mystery, Initiation, Parenting...

Joshua Schrei @Substack

michaelgarfield.substack.com · 14 May 2024

On Soulmaking and Soulful Priors

Imaginal practice & soulmaking dharma "Soulmaking Dharma" is a spiritual approach that blends Buddhist teachings with Western concepts of deep psyc...

eirinimalliaraki.substack.com · 10 May 2024

10x happiness increases are possible, and this is an underrated fact

Bland informational post

sashachapin.substack.com · 2 May 2024

The Hand Made Web

Or, "How I Stopped Worrying & Learned to Love the AI Apocalypse" (sort of...)

dougald.substack.com · 2 May 2024

A Dialogue with Josh Schrei of 'The Emerald'

Also, a response from Benjamin Breen to Nora Bateson's recent essay

Josh Schrei @Substack

beiner.substack.com · 10 Mar 2024

The Novelty Famine

Why nothing feels fresh in 2024

beiner.substack.com · 3 Mar 2024

The Antidebate and the Metacrisis

Why I believe the method is not just interesting but also important.

jonathanrowson.substack.com · 1 Mar 2024

how it's all gonna go down

straight talk at the buzzer

Jamie Wheal @Substack

jamiewheal.substack.com · 17 Feb 2024

Tech Bros, Ayn Rand and Adderall

to address our problems we need to update our priors

Jamie Wheal @Substack

jamiewheal.substack.com · 2 Feb 2024

Moving the Goalposts on Late Stage Capitalism

Third World Problems, Coming for the First World

Jamie Wheal capitalism @Substack

jamiewheal.substack.com · 20 Jan 2024

The Inner Life of the Future

The Third Attractor, The Third Horizon, and the Third Reality

jonathanrowson.substack.com · 22 Nov 2023

Salt, Acid and Light

Why psychedelics change everything (and nothing)

Jamie Wheal psychedelics @Substack

jamiewheal.substack.com · 22 Nov 2023

Should you meditate, and also, what is even meditation

this is a long post

sashachapin.substack.com · 21 Nov 2023

The Meta-Crises and Digital Identity

An inflection point

deepcode.substack.com · 15 Nov 2023

OpenAI x DFT: The First Moral Graph

Beyond Constitutional AI; Our first trial with 500 Americans; How democratic processes can generate an LLM we can trust.

meaningalignment.substack.com · 25 Oct 2023

Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster

Breaking through the illusion of convenience that's used to sell us automation

brettscott.substack.com · 17 Oct 2023

ChatGPT: A Bullshit Tool For Bullshit Jobs

A cure for the professional illness of our times

thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com · 17 Oct 2023

You Say It's a Livin' (We All Gotta Eat)

three markers of environmental overshoot that defy politics and culture wars

Jamie Wheal @Substack

jamiewheal.substack.com · 17 Oct 2023

Introducing Democratic Fine-Tuning

An alternative to Constitutional AI or simple RLHF-based approaches for fine-tuning LLMs based on moral information from diverse populations.

meaningalignment.substack.com · 2 Oct 2023

A few thoughts on the Russell Brand furore

Almost no one seems willing to hold their tongue on the latest claims. Here are my observations: not on the allegations, but on all the noise

jonathancook.substack.com · 24 Sep 2023

On Mobs, Cults, and Russell Brand

Note to readers: I’m experimenting for the next few weeks or months with a hew format. Benjamin Life, a politically and spiritually astute friend o...

Charles Eisenstein @Substack

charleseisenstein.substack.com · 24 Sep 2023

From City to Civium

In my long contemplation of that thing sometimes called “civilization,” one insight has come through that seems significant enough to write down an...

deepcode.substack.com · 22 Sep 2023

Canaries: 0, Coal Mine: 3

when ecological metaphors becomes reality

Jamie Wheal @Substack

jamiewheal.substack.com · 12 Sep 2023

Psychedelic Fascism: Too Big To Fail?

as goes MAPS so goes all our efforts to unf*ck the world

Jamie Wheal psychedelic @Substack

jamiewheal.substack.com · 13 Aug 2023

Dancing with a permanent emergency

Why I decided to shift focus from the climate crisis to the meta crisis.

climate crisis climate change @Substack

jonathanrowson.substack.com · 13 Aug 2023

Decentralised Indigenous Organisations (DIOs)

A series on the importance to have new indigenous institutions powered by Web3 technologies to address the metacrisis.

indigenous @Substack

myceliauni.substack.com · 5 Apr 2023

Synthesis and the shadow of psychedelic capitalism

What are the lessons for the psychedelic ecosystem from the collapse of Synthesis Institute?

capitalism psychedelic @Substack

ecstaticintegration.substack.com · 11 Mar 2023

Web3’s Holy Grail is Censorship-Resistant Movement Infrastructure

The Hyped Up Space Will Be A Bust If It Doesn’t Empower Us To Out-Coordinate Evil

garysheng.substack.com · 6 Feb 2023

Impact Certificates: the Ultimate Guide (Part 1)

The web3 primitive that will shape charity for the 21st century

natevancleve.substack.com · 1 Feb 2023

Nick Cammarata On Jhana

jhana @Substack

astralcodexten.substack.com · 27 Jan 2023

Handfuls of Dust and Splinters of Bone

The battle of good versus evil replaced earlier cosmologies in which various polar forces were essential parts of an overall perfection, an organic...

Charles Eisenstein @Substack

charleseisenstein.substack.com · 30 Dec 2022

The Foundational Tech Manifesto

What it will take to break through to America 2.0

garysheng.substack.com · 22 Dec 2022

Why I'm Less Than Infinitely Hostile To Cryptocurrency

cryptocurrency @Substack

astralcodexten.substack.com · 9 Dec 2022

Where Are We? Part II: The Cost of Being Right

What's happening in crypto is nothing new—it's a tale as old as 1848.

crypto @Substack

davidphelps.substack.com · 22 Nov 2022

The Psychopharmacology Of The FTX Crash

Must not blog about FTX . . . must not blog about . . . ah, $#@% it

astralcodexten.substack.com · 17 Nov 2022

On Emergence

Insights from the Emerge Gathering in Austin 2022

meaning @Substack

euvieivanova.substack.com · 11 Jul 2022

Context Disruption

The greatest trick the bull market pulled was making us believe that entertainers abusing their power meant, somehow, that they were standing up ag...

davidphelps.substack.com · 29 May 2022

People are the New Platforms

In web3, platforms succeed by becoming protocols—which means people succeed by becoming platforms.

davidphelps.substack.com · 27 Mar 2022

Sensemaking Russia & Ukraine, Rebel Wisdom

Embracing complexity, confusion and moral clarity

Rebel Wisdom @Substack

rebelwisdom.substack.com · 1 Mar 2022

Incentives structures

I ended the last post, (3,3), with this: Explicating the incentive structures behind financial products and complex crypto schemes is a foresight-s...

crypto @Substack

cobie.substack.com · 20 Feb 2022

(3,3)

One overriding sentiment of the last year or so has been “the evil VCs have an unfair advantage, they are dumping on us”. Such sentiment became pop...

money crypto @Substack

cobie.substack.com · 20 Feb 2022

Wtf is web3

Web3 has been a very fashionable term this year, mostly for the alt-finance cartoon characters and tech world’s ultrasophisticated twitter-thread a...

cobie.substack.com · 20 Feb 2022

Community Contribution Opportunity

A new mechanism for capital coordination within decentralized communities

daohaus.substack.com · 28 Jan 2022

The DAO Moment

The new Alchemists

bitcoin blockchain DAO crypto @Substack

deepcode.substack.com · 28 Jan 2022

Trading the metagame

Participating in crypto markets during the thrill stages of a bull-run is isomorphically more similar to playing a modern video game than it is to ...

crypto @Substack

cobie.substack.com · 28 Dec 2021

# 19 | Klima, a Family Story

Tackling the Ultimate Coordination Failure Through Unsatisfiable Greed

dirtroads.substack.com · 1 Nov 2021

A Novel Perspective on NFTs

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been in a handful of conversations about NFTs and I noticed that I seem to be holding a perspective that is not (yet?...

deepcode.substack.com · 3 Oct 2021

Occupy & Klima

The Old and The New

micahwhite.substack.com · 21 Sep 2021

DAOhaus: Empowering Human-Centric DAOs

Panvala Observer Weekly Newsletter

panvala.substack.com · 25 Aug 2021

We Can Create Something Brand New

Things are really bad. There’s a pandemic that has stretched on and on, that has been poorly managed on a global scale. That has not resulted in th...

pandemic climate change @Substack

clementinemorrigan.substack.com · 25 Aug 2021

I Called My Ex Abusive When They Weren't

I wrote this essay last fall. You can find it in my zine Fuck the Police Means We Don’t Act like Cops to Each Other. I’m posting it here because I ...

clementinemorrigan.substack.com · 24 Jul 2021

Commons Stack Uses PAN to Fuel Community Fund

Panvala Observer Weekly Newsletter

panvala.substack.com · 1 Apr 2021

👽 "Decentralized Reputation is About to Open a New Web3 Frontier:" Kevin Owocki

Hello Defiers! Today, we’re talking about the holy grail of DeFi and web3. The one piece that’s necessary to open up so many essential use cases, y...

Kevin Owocki DeFi @Substack

thedefiant.substack.com · 15 Mar 2021

💵 This is How Wall Street Becomes Obsolete

The internet of money is about to rule finance.

money @Substack

thedefiant.substack.com · 29 Jan 2021

95 Theses

Crypto thoughts on 2021 from the dark place under your feet

crypto @Substack

redphone.substack.com · 27 Dec 2020

The Authorities Have Failed Us: An anarchist response to SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19 based on mutual aid and solidarity

Possibilities in a time of epistemic and institutional crisis

pandemic Covid-19 @Substack

againstutopia.substack.com · 29 Mar 2020

Bitcoin Is Smarter Than Politicians And Central Bankers

Don’t look now, but the global economy is becoming unstable and uncertain. Each individual, regardless of geographic location, is increasingly bein...

bitcoin @Substack

offthechain.substack.com · 9 Jul 2019

Flux #26 - Junto Demo, New Fundraising Initiatives, and More

Happy Sunday, everyone - I hope you all are finding time to rest. Eric here with another update on what’s been happening in the Junto sphere. Our t...

podcast @Substack

junto.substack.com · 12 Jun 2019