interesting writing/art/concepts/companies/x accounts
  • grimes

  • passion pit

  • the 1975

  • purity ring

  • m83

  • puppet

  • "well rested" - kero kero bonito

  • "little voices" - lane 8

  • gattaca (1997)

  • planet earth (2006)

  • oppenheimer (2023)

  • 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

  • @tszzl

  • @iterintellectus

  • @cremieuxrecueil

  • @aella_girl

  • @coldhealing

  • @magattew

  • @richardhanania

  • increasing control and wisdom 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 control, single-cell transcriptomics, and navigating academic bureaucracy as a phd student @ columbia.

contact: timothylantin@gmail.com; X: @timlantin

new york city

  • palladium magazine

  • ender's game series - card

  • 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

  • great founder theory - burja

  • neuromancer & bridge trilogies - gibson

  • foundation series - asimov

  • a map that reflects the territory - lesswrong contributors

  • the heart of a cheetah - wade

  • boom - hobart & huber

  • xenosystems - land

  • colossal biosciences/george church

  • orchid/noor siddiqui

  • we build life/josie zayner

  • he jiankui

  • cradle/laura deming

  • science corporation/max hodak

  • spacex/neuralink/tesla

  • synchron/tom oxley

  • openbci

  • virtual self/porter robinson

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