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Tuesday May 27, 2025
Tuesday May 27, 2025
On tech and the last hu-men.
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Writer Alex Gender is back, talking to Alex and George about his recent essay, "Homo Algorithmicus", as well as reflecting on how incel culture has widened and deepened in the past five years.
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How does healthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione exemplify a “rationalist” worldview?
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What is "TESCREAL" and how are those distinct ideologies underpinned an anti-human rationalism?
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Is "tech" or Silicon Valley split between liberal effective altruists and neo-reactionary libertarians?
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Is tech moving from trying to escape the state to trying to capture it?
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What is it about “Gen Z boss and a mini” that generated such ire among "masculinists"?
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What is to be done about the Man Question?
Links:
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Homo Algorithmicus, Alex Gendler, The Point Magazine
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The perennial surplus, Alex Gendler, Substack
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The New Legislators of Silicon Valley, Evgeny Morozov, The Ideas Letter
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