Jarred Filmer

(I'm not directly affiliated, just a fan) The Society Library curates arguments, claims, and evidence on high-impact social issues. They've begun work on a library for AI safety resources, and are seeking contributions from experts on papers, articles, group chats, and positions they should be aware of. More information on...

Apotheosis, Home, Works Part V Everyone has their own name for it. "The Multi-Dimensional Crisis Revolution", "The Precipice", "Collapse", "The Most Important Century", "The Meta Crisis", "The Weirdening", "Planetary Scale Vibe Collapse". Many just call it "Modernity". A suspicion perhaps, that something strange is afoot in this chapter of the...

Take your mnestic Part IV In the web series "There is No Antimemetics Division" our heroes must fight a great evil, monsters that make you forget they exist. In the course of such adventures, they find it necessary to imbibe "mnestics" (the opposite of an amnesiac), drugs for remembering. Every...

Space begets space Part III Like an anaemic finding iron, a week into this process I had a profound sense that I'd gained something in which I'd been chronically deficient. I started calling whatever it was that I'd gained, "Space". Space is a condition of abundant uninterrupted time, with a...

Life is a response to being Part II Over the course of my twenties, I'd accumulated thousands of hastily jotted notes. Thoughts that had grown in the gaps between work and play I'd managed to save before lost off the cliff of forgetting. Thoughts like, "I'm starting to suspect it's...

Remember to remember... Part I Tell me if this sounds familiar... You're walking to work one bright and caffeinated morning, and you find yourself rather engaged in a shiny train of thought. It feels novel, and important, and relevant to what matters. One might even go so far as to...

(2023 edit: I've compiled a list of session templates at eacrews.notion.site) In 2020 I was introduced to "microsolidarity", a set of ideas and methodologies on relating to others in groups. Over the last 6 months I've been experimenting with it in the form of "crewing". This post is a casual...