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2026-05-26

Don't mistake social malaise for guilt, and where are the curious violent people?

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The sort of social malaise I am experiencing right now is exactly the same malaise I experienced when working on the youtube channel, or when making blogposts, or similar.
Do not assume that moral guilt over leaking/hacking is the reason for your current mood. You don't have much data backing the hypothesis that your current mood is due to any actual guilt.
Loneliness by far is the bigger reason, and I accepted the loneliness on purpose, so be it.

Side note

Why aren't there more curious violent people on the internet?
- Like, on one hand there are a bunch of violent people like Thiel or Karp or Balaji or similar, and I'm like yeah, I get why this makes sense.
- On the other hand there are many curious writers online like ... idk I should name names, but yes, like many rat-adjacent bloggers.
I would consider the cypherpunks mailing list as an example of people who were both curious and violent. I would include Timothy May for sure, or ofcourse the guy who supported assassination markets, or Assange, or even Satoshi. They understand that sometimes low-trust assumptions make sense, that violence is required to defend yourself, and most importantly they still had high self-esteem and were curious people.
The last part is extremely important.
Has culture today just grown more cynical as compared to when cypherpunks or extropians was released? Today when people are violent they just seem to often do it out of cynical self-interest, people don't actually even claim they're doing things for a greater good anymore.
Oh ofcourse, with the big exception of the people running the AI companies themselves.

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