First principles of self-liberation strategies with Max Hillebrand

It all started with a Twitter thread and my conversation with Max about one of the strategies for self-liberation. Many people don’t know that they are out there. People don’t usually talk about how they hide from coercion (and not only state coercion) or avoid it. But that does not mean that everyone has to discover it on their own.

In this first part of a series, we talk about what do we look for in the strategies that we are willing to consider. Making a lot of money and hiring a private army could probably be considered an anti-coercion strategy, but we would need to abolish our principles. So what are they?

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The rise of artificial intelligence

About the current state of AI. I have a conversation with OpenAI’s GPT-3 neural network about freedom, optionality, temporary autonomous zones and Bitcoin. Then I talk about what it means and where to go from here. Is AI helping us, or is it a problem? Where do we use AI currently?

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Option+ Manifesto: Being free here and now

In this podcast episode, I explain my personal manifesto, in which I describe how to attain freedom here and now, without waiting for larger socio-political changes.

You can also read the manifesto itself.

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Optionality and liberty

What are the definitions of freedom / liberty? Can we find a useful one that will tell us about it’s costs and properties. When it is useful to have more options? What are negative and positive rights, what is “freedom from” and “freedom to”?

And why is freedom especially important in volatile times?

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