interests
influential writing
palladium magazine
culture series - banks
remembrance of earth's past series - liu
jurassic park - crichton
diaspora - greg egan
dune - herbert
parable of the sower - butler
the windup girl - bacigalupi
incerto series - taleb
samo burja
william gibson
asimov
a map that reflects the territory - lesswrong contributors
the heart of a cheetah - wade
boom - hobart & huber
increasingly, the biology will demand the courage to face its implications.
i'm interested in:
progress at the human biological species, human civilization, and planetary scales
how significant technological, geopolitical, economic, and memetic developments alter the trajectory of progress and its exposure to risk
building and maintaining functional institutions of live players (burja)
human hibernation for deep space travel and longevity
cybernetics
currently, i'm learning about neural engineering, single-cell transcriptomics, and navigating academic bureaucracy as a phd student @ columbia.
orange county, california culture
pacific northwest (pnw) culture
new york city (nyc) culture
effective accelerationism (e/acc)
biological accelerationism (bio/acc)
lesswrong rationality forum
cyberpunk/cypherpunk
tpot/tpox
gray tribe
tech bro culture
influential subcultures
influential art
grimes
virtual self/porter robinson
the 1975
m83
purity ring
passion pit
"well rested" - kero kero bonito
"little voices" - lane 8
gattaca (1997)
planet earth (2006)
oppenheimer (2023)
influential philosophers and concepts
plato, the just polis, platonic forms, philosopher-kings
hobbes, state of nature
locke, natural rights
de tocqueville, tyranny of the majority
ibn khaldun, عصبيّة ('asabiyyah/group feeling/social cohesion)
nietzsche, will to power
john nash, nash equilibrium
singer, preference utilitarianism
john rawls, veil of ignorance/original position
contact: timothylantin@gmail.com; @timothylantin
new york city