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Category: Note

Being Human in a LARPing World

The cure for the cancer of gun culture and police culture is not to be found in reform laws around guns and police, but in reform ideas around culture…
Ben Hunt June 8, 2022
35 Comments

The MacGuffin, Part 1

If you don't see that the crypto "industry" has become just as blindingly corrupt, just as oozingly fatuous, just as profoundly captured by the Nudgin…
Ben Hunt May 17, 2022
78 Comments

NGMI

The Fed's rate hikes to curb inflation? Not gonna make it.
Ben Hunt April 11, 2022
128 Comments

Narrative and Metaverse, Pt. 3: The Luther Protocol

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." - MLK Does it? Does it really? Today we take a stand to defend the arc of the…
Ben Hunt March 24, 2022
73 Comments

Narrative and Metaverse, Pt. 2: Gain of Function

Big Tech, Big Media and Big Politics are engaged in a widespread program of gain-of-function research on the linguistic entities of the metaverse. It…
Ben Hunt February 2, 2022
78 Comments

Narrative and Metaverse, Pt. 1: The Living Word

The past, present and future of human freedom is not determined in the macroverse but in the metaverse, and it is here where we must make our stand. F…
Ben Hunt January 18, 2022
75 Comments
Image of the WWI Christmas Truce, as envisioned by an artist decades later

An Inconvenient Truce

Polarization often isn't an accident. It is the result of intentional narrative construction - constructions designed to make us believe that we are s…
Rusty Guinn January 3, 2022
72 Comments

RIP, Expertise

This is an unedited thread from the ET Forum that I've republished in close to its entirety and put outside the paywall. It's just one example of why …
Ben Hunt December 30, 2021
0 Comments

25 Anti-Mimetic Tactics for Living a Counter-Cultural Life

The social rewards that come from imitating others feel good, but they come at a high price. Here are 25 Anti-Mimetic ideas that can help us craft a…
Luke Burgis December 13, 2021
10 Comments

The NFL Has a Gambling Problem

The outcomes of NFL games are inordinately influenced by officials relative to other sports. This is not new. The narrative environment faced by the N…
Rusty Guinn November 15, 2021
21 Comments

The Green Protocol: A New Vision for Crypto, Pt 2

The Green Protocol is a set of rules for the tokenization of symbolic betting markets in positive social good. I think this is how crypto saves the w…
Ben Hunt September 8, 2021
52 Comments

How a Narrative Goes Viral

It is a fact that migrants here illegally have spread, are spreading, and will spread Covid-19. It is also a narrative. A dangerous, seductive, rapi…
Rusty Guinn August 10, 2021
47 Comments

Proof of Plant: A New Vision for Crypto, Pt 1

I want to change the language of crypto from mining to growing. I do not mean this in a metaphorical sense. I mean a proof-of-plant method for literal…
Ben Hunt June 23, 2021
39 Comments

In Praise of Bitcoin

What made Bitcoin special is nearly lost, and what remains is a false and constructed narrative that exists in service to Wall Street and Washington r…
Ben Hunt April 28, 2021
58 Comments

Mailbag: ET Forum Edition

We are now more than 900 Pack members strong on the ET Forum, with more than 1,000 posts contributed by smart, clear-eyed, full-hearted people from al…
Ben Hunt April 16, 2021
10 Comments

What Do We Need To Be True?

Modeling common knowledge by analyzing missionary statements and their reverberations works. Except when it doesn’t.
Rusty Guinn April 6, 2021
44 Comments

A Tiger Can’t Change Its Stripes

What do you get when you give a raccoon billions of dollars AND invisibility from regulators? Collusion and insider trading.
Ben Hunt March 30, 2021
32 Comments

The Opposite of 2008

In 2008, the US housing market - together with a Fed that thought the subprime crisis was "contained" - delivered the mother of all deflationary shock…
Ben Hunt March 2, 2021
27 Comments

Hunger Games

You have been told that the odds are ever in your favor. You have been told this for your entire life. More and more, you suspect this is a lie. Ove…
Ben Hunt February 4, 2021
31 Comments

AMA? BITFD!

The American Medical Association is not a charitable organization. The American Medical Association is not an educational organization. The American…
Ben Hunt November 24, 2020
23 Comments
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