Mind Expanding 24 March 2023: mapping 37.2 trillion data points🔬manifesto for an accelerationist politics📈escaping the superorganism🦑the great leveler🪓retrocausality🔙

Meme to Vibe💭

Mind Expanding is my ~fortnightly curation of links to deeper dives and bigger thinks that I’ve come across while compiling the weekly Memia newsletter. Thanks for reading!

Links in today’s post:

• 🔬Mapping 37.2 trillion data points the Human Cell Atlas initiative aims to map all types of cells in the human body based on massive data analysis of gene expression

• 🚰World water map A more conventional map, showing the growing water gap around the world

• 📈Manifesto for an accelerationist politics preparing for post-capitalism

• 🦑Escaping the superorganism a look at the theories of economist John Gowdy that the human economy is a “superorganism” taking precedence over the individuals within it.

• 😶‍🌫️TESCREAL Emile Torres (self-styled nemesis of all things Effectively Altruistic) has a new catch-all term for his philosophical opponents

• 🏙️Temple cities the latest crypto-network state charter city startup…too abstract to believe

• 🪓The Great Leveler Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? Walter Scheidel’s 2017 book looking at thousands of years of history argues yes.

• 🔙Retrocausality Mindbending quantum physics: what if actions in the future actually influence outcomes in the past?

• 💭Meme to Vibe A fun race across the modern lexical and cultural zeitgest with The Stoa’s Peter Limberg