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the actual views and arguments Getting the views of neoreactionaries from Noah Smith is like getting the views of Luther's 95 Theses from Pope Leo X. How about, you know, just reading Moldbug? http://moldbuggery.blogspot.com
on “Two Kinds of Freedom of Speech (or Strangeloop vs. Curtis Yarvin)” ↗…Constitution and Declaration of Independence The Treaty of Versailles The Paris Treaty The Kyoto Protocol The Bible, King James Version Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech Martin Luther's 95 Theses The Communist Manifesto
on “The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS” ↗…political practices of the Church. Or, in other words, against the sale of indulgences for absolution of purgatory-condemning sanctions against living and dead parishioners. In the beginnings of the 95 Theses he actually puts a favorable light on the Pope, in my brief re-reading [1]. Luther's protestants still held to the catacism(sp?), sacraments, transmutation of the hosts, etc. As far as I've ever understood…
on “19th Century Marriage Manuals: Advice for Young Husbands” ↗…emotions with their amygdala - they can't keep their ego in check and pretend they don't realize they are contradicting the official doctrine. It's fun to think you can be like Martin Luther, nailing The 95 Theses to the church door. We only hear about Martin Luther because of a quite literal survivor bias. Also, Luther survived because he claimed to not be challenging the Vatican's authority, but simply having…
on “The Kolmogorov option” ↗> and now a new twist enters the story... > The printing press! Not quite so new. At the time Luther published his 95 Theses in 1517 the printing press with movable types has been around pretty much as long as the computer has been around for us in 2021: for three quarters of a century.
on “At the world's oldest social housing, rent hasn't changed since 1521” ↗…representatives, if you squint really hard. Memes in the larger sense of contagious ideas are as political as it gets and have been driving social action for millennia. If Martin Luther's time used TikTok, his 95 Theses might've been set to a catchy dance routine.
on “Will Digital Technologies Kill the Nation State?” ↗Until Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses
on “I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into a Constitutional Trial” ↗…things to an extreme, but you get my point. And sure, it took him longer than a weekend, but I doubt most 'disruptive' works of programming were born in a single weekend. (EDIT: I'm not sure why Luther's 95 Theses popped into my head above any other body of work. But it's pretty indisputable that it was awfully impactful, and were, largely, just pen and paper (or quill and parchment... whatever :)))
on “Please Learn to Code” ↗Martin Luther effective did a tweetstorm with his 95 Theses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ninety-Five_Theses http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/history/95theses.htm
on “That Way We’re All Writing Now” ↗…for a fee, a short cut to heaven), splitting the proceeds with Pope Leo, who used the cash to build St Peter’s Basilica. In 1517 Martin Luther was sufficiently outraged by this scheme that he wrote the “95 Theses” that damned Rome, sparking the Protestant Reformation.'
on “Goldenballs: Not for Nothing Was Jacob Fugger Known as “Jacob the Rich”” ↗This is from the Newberry Library, in Chicago, a premier private research library. Show Notes 1:58 – Luther’s original goals for the 95 Theses. 4:10 – Today, the 95 Theses look a lot like the sixteenth-century version of a listicle. Was this a common form for presenting theological arguments in those days? 7:07 – A reading of thesis #32. 9:16…
on “Luther's Theses and the Role of the Printing Press [audio]” ↗…peace. Not yet. Even the printing press, even the printing press was assumed to be a tool that was going to enforce Catholic intellectual hegemony across Europe. Instead, what we got was Martin Luther's 95 Theses, the Protestant Reformation, and, you know, the Thirty Years' War. > All right, so what all of these predictions of world peace got right is that when a lot of new ideas suddenly come into circulation,…
on “Facebook isn’t free speech, it’s algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage” ↗> 31 October 1517, the day on which Martin Luther supposedly nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg. This was the moment that deviation from Roman orthodoxy was finally allowed, and opened up a space where atheists could do science and share rational thoughts.…
on “When Did the Medieval Period End?” ↗…media, education, and financial and political power that there was no way that a revolution of ideas could even be imagined to succeed. But thanks to the printing press this all changed as Martin Luther’s 95 Theses spread across Europe making Luther the first widely recognized public figure in history. We call that period the Reformation today and it was the beginning of the end to the Catholic Church’s dominance.…
on “The currency of the new economy won't be money, but attention (1997)” ↗…do need a priest to "hand out" God's forgiveness. Which is what this robot (which is "meant to start a debate about the future of technology and the church" in the city where Martin Luther nailed his "95 Theses" to the church door) does.
on “The Neon God” ↗