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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 09/09/2026

We probably - no wait, *definitely* - don't think about words enough agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/not-my-type

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Not My Type

Rules outlive their reasons

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 06/08/2026

The narrow, skin-bound model of the self is the core modeling error. Self-interest isn’t the problem - it’s unavoidable. What’s broken is the presumption that the self stops at the skin.

$The narrow, skin-bound model of the self is the core modeling error. Self-interest isn’t the problem - it’s unavoidable. What’s broken is the presumption that the self stops at the skin. Once you take interdependent causality seriously (across people, ecosystems, time), self-interest and altruism start to look like the same thing. I arrived there through free-will scepticism and a grim historical hypothesis: that ego is malware, the development of which was kicked off when our ancestors were domesticated by sociopaths. A self-perpetuating cycle in which narcissistic elites acted on false certainty, thus generated avoidable trauma, and thereby produced more acquired narcissistic traits. The tragedy of the commons is downstream of that corrupted reality-model. Collective identity withered; human nature got redefined as atomised competition. We’re left poisoning the biosphere chasing a stupid one-dimensional proxy for happy brain chemicals while the larger system’s capacity for coherent sensing atrophies. Ego as Gaia’s brain cancer is the compressed diagnosis. The methodological angle is to stop treating categories as silos. Dynamical systems, fractal geometry, cybernetics, information theory, psychology, IT failure modes, and philosophy stop looking separate once you treat them as different views of feedback, scale, and model corruption. The working stance is semi-rigorous holistic synthesis - self-cynical, seat-of-the-pants totalising in the Fuller lineage. Balance is the obvious trick; the real skill is diagnosing which tensions are load-bearing and which are artifacts of a bad map. Practically this has meant treating identity itself as an engineering problem under a robustness–efficiency tradeoff. The target is load-bearing minimalism: survey from multiple angles, extract the primitives, strip the contingent hacks, and re-arrange what remains into something closer to a tensegrity structure - where robustness and efficiency arise from the same features.$

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 03/08/2026

Let's make like Mamdani addressing his fellow Muslim New Yorkers, and step into the light. agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/the-shadow...

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The Shadow of Aristocracy

Fractal Narcissism, Crippled Human Nature

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 25/07/2026

This is probably one of the strongest examples of how much we suck because most of us monkeys care too much what the other bum-sniffers think agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/the-incuri...

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The Incurious Are Nearly as Blind as the Credulous

The edge of knowledge requires more discipline, not less.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 02/07/2026

We can bust out legit miracles if we try hard enough agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/the-coolan...

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The Coolant Is the Fuel

No Other Way

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 27/06/2026

This could be the epic reframe we've all been waiting for, if i do say so myself ;) agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/the-refere...

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The Referee Test

One Metric to Rule Them All

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Angeliki T. 💎 in NYC @ellinidata.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 03/06/2026

Lots of wheels are falling off our civilisation right now. This is one of the biggest. agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/orwells-lo...

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Orwell's Looking Glass

Newspeak, Doublethink, and the IHRA

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 31/05/2026

May is NYC Small Business Month, but supporting our neighborhood businesses is a year-round commitment. Whether you're opening a barbershop, ice cream shop, bodega, or anything in between, NYC SBS is here to support you. Call the SBS Hotline: 888-SBS-4NYC (888-727-4692) Visit: nyc.gov/business

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 26/05/2026

Some days, it seems more like nobody's home than others. agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/maccy-ds-s... Claude being a bit thick, but coming good here and there

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Maccy D's Sprite

Oh yeah

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 26/05/2026

Anyone unfamiliar with Honest Government Ads? www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPTs... (some colourful language)

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Honest Government Ad | The Ensh*ttenment

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 25/05/2026

This may seem a quaint subject, but as brutal absurdity looms ever higher, it might be worth considering the legacy of one of its staunchest enemies, albeit fictional. Hawkeye’s comedy wasn’t a defence mechanism, but the opposite. agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/hawkeye-pi...

Hawkeye Pierce was Deadly Serious
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