#Philosophy
7 entries tagged Philosophy.
People (3)
- Amanda Askell Amanda Askell is the philosopher who leads the team shaping the character of Anthropic's Claude and is the principal author of its Constitution, an NYU-trained ethicist from the effective-altruism movement who was formerly married to its cofounder William MacAskill.
- Nick Land Nick Land is an English philosopher who co-founded the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at the University of Warwick in the 1990s, originated the right-accelerationist current that fed into the Dark Enlightenment, and whose CCRU-era writings on capitalism and technology as self-reinforcing feedback loops supplied the metaphysical register that Curtis Yarvin's Neoreaction supplied the institutional register for.
- Rene Girard René Girard was a French historian and theorist of religion at Stanford University whose theory of mimetic desire and the scapegoat mechanism became the intellectual foundation of his student Peter Thiel's worldview, and whose foundation, Imitatio, Thiel funds.
Organizations (1)
- Scientology Scientology is a controversial religious movement founded by L. Ron Hubbard whose relevance to this vault lies in the fact that several key figures in the early SRI remote viewing program - including Hal Puthoff, Ingo Swann, and Pat Price - were former members.
Concepts (3)
- Ein Brera Ein Brera, meaning 'no alternative' in Hebrew, is a doctrine deeply ingrained in Israeli strategic thought.
- Human Potential Human Potential refers to the inherent capabilities and untapped resources believed to exist within all individuals.
- Synchronicity Synchronicity is Carl Jung's concept of meaningful coincidences that lack causal connection, invoked in parapsychology research as a potential framework for understanding psychic phenomena that defy normal probability.