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Walker Goff's avatar

If this is really you, and you have the time and the interest, please hit me up at walker.goff.wg@gmail.com or warren.goff@duke.edu to schedule an interview. I am obsessed with your work (not just the early work), and I would love to pick your brain. I can compensate you for your time. I applied for a research grant on blockchain and I may get it, but even if not I can pay you for the interview. Just let me know. I'd love to talk. My research interests are primarily blockchain now, and philosophy / critical theory insofar as it provides different frameworks for discussing it and other AI-like systems. And no, I'm not gonna ask you any stupid questions about politics. I have a near-zero interest in politics. So I'm not gonna be like, "how can we use accelerationism to stop human suffering from this evil capitalist machine?" or other missed-the-entire-point questions. People who ask that haven't even read Marx (maybe they touched the Manifesto, but never Capital), let alone read your work closely enough. Anyway, if you're not interested, no worries. If you are, hit me up and we'll go over details (payment, discord vs telegram vs whatever, all of that). Cheers.

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Alberto Escobar's avatar

Some thoughts about your tweet: "Beyond the miasma of ideological obfuscation, the nature of sexual difference emerges predictably from the binary division of organisms into bearers of cheap and expensive gametes." https://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/1506479949754298372

It is interesting that sexual difference has three archetypical forms, arising from the fact that the male is, by default, disposable. Among the insects, the male remains disposable, a mere gamete machine; in the hive, the workers are female. Sometimes, the males are devoured after mating. Among the mammals, the male rises above disposability through dominance and competence. The males evolve to be bigger and stronger. Among the birds, the male rises above disposability by being impressive. Thus, the males evolve colorful plumage and even stately dancing ability.

It is most fascinating that humans are not automatically one of the mammals. Rather, human societies can adopt any of the three archetypes. In the collectivist longhouse societies, there evolve literal bugmen. Notably, such societies are ruled not by female individuals, but by the Kween. Among bourgeoisie societies, males protect and provide for their females, yet have a measure of ownership over them. Among aristocracies, females were not economically dependent on the males, and so the males dressed themselves in finery and learned to play and dance minuets. The gentleman-scientist of the Enlightenment and the Kabbalist Talmudic scholar belong in this category as well.

Which should archetype should humans aspire to? Theologians in the Early and Medieval Church believed that humans are animals by nature; yet, being bipedal like the birds, can become more like them by grace.

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