Tpot itself

The tpot/postrat scene itself: its people, history, naming, and scene dynamics

A topic in the tpot Community Archive, drawn from 9,297 posts.

Trusted voices in Tpot itself

Ordered by the trust Tpot itself's own network concentrates on each poster, most first.

  1. nosilverv — trusted by 175 posters here
  2. visakanv — trusted by 175 posters here
  3. RichDecibels — trusted by 146 posters here
  4. vividvoid — trusted by 152 posters here
  5. exgenesis — trusted by 152 posters here
  6. the_wilderless — trusted by 139 posters here
  7. goblinodds — trusted by 131 posters here
  8. QiaochuYuan — trusted by 139 posters here
  9. myhandle — trusted by 126 posters here
  10. eigenrobot — trusted by 127 posters here
  11. michaelcurzi — trusted by 126 posters here
  12. TylerAlterman — trusted by 139 posters here

Top posts in Tpot itself

Ordered by the recorded like count from the source corpus; a like is not an endorsement.

  1. If lemur discourse doesn't hyperstition a performance art group that just follows Curzi around next vibecamp staring at him silently then we've failed as a community (nosilverv) — 47 likes
  2. i *love* when i find a lurker who follows all the tpot major characters. like oh ur not just ur average lurker…ur an advanced lurker…a sleeper agent who could step into poasterdom with the right… (univrsw3th4rt) — 45 likes
  3. @jim_rutt hyper tolerant, brainy but not strictly materialist, autist adjacent, hobby psychologist/psychonauts, extremely online sweethearts who decided that twitter is actually a great place to… (RichDecibels) — 43 likes
  4. announcing the community archive! a quest to back up the tpot canon links in replies https://t.co/ECXdD5G2Bn (exgenesis) — 41 likes
  5. tpot isn't a movement its a republic of letters. this is literally the only place on the internet I can actually have deep ideological disagreements with people that are still friendly and in good… (slimepriestess) — 39 likes
  6. i'm working at a summer camp for ambitious high schoolers. it turns out several of them lurk here... your words are affecting the youths at a formative time of their lives! (Prigoose) — 39 likes
  7. TPOT is a bunch of sorry incels who are also the Silicon Valley elite who are also thinly-veiled reactionaries and also a polyamorous hippie vegans who are also a bunch of buddhist trad-cath atheist… (myhandle) — 38 likes
  8. it's time to double down. this corner of twitter is special I want to invest in projects and individuals in our community starting now first grant is in the works to @the_wilderless (more details to… (_brentbaum) — 36 likes
  9. top signal, we need to change names immediately. i propose weird moon twitter https://t.co/zX6oq9pcxx (QiaochuYuan) — 35 likes
  10. @sonyasupposedly @SHL0MS one day people will write about how this part of twitter was legendary for all the overlapping origin stories (visakanv) — 34 likes
  11. I made a guide to tpot! https://t.co/iE5v0T5wVS (christineist) — 34 likes
  12. No one knows what the hell we're doing here in TPOT. The universe brought us together for its own inscrutable reasons. The only criteria for inclusion is that you resonate with us and what we're… (vividvoid) — 33 likes
  13. hello friends please enjoy this conversation with @VividVoid_ and @RichDecibels about the state of tpot and various and sundry related topics, hot off the presses https://t.co/eKy0Noeljq (QiaochuYuan) — 33 likes
  14. Hanging out with actual hippies this weekend was fun but kind of hard, like I believe most of the same weird stuff they do, but somehow the way we believe it is different, like epistemologically,… (chercher_ai) — 33 likes
  15. the collapse of "tpot" is predictable because tpot discusses tpot, not ideas, and it dissipates as people find relationships offlineI believe in postrat twitter instead - an intellectual / art scene… (exgenesis) — 33 likes
  16. 2012: I'm a rationalist! 2014: rationalist is old hat, I'm gray tribe 2016: oh no, "gray tribe" was co-opted by Thiel bros, guess I'm just a rationalist again 2018: I'm a post rat! 2020: oh no,… (myhandle) — 33 likes
  17. ingroup map!!! .@xsphi and i put together a way for ingroup to semi-anonymously display our general locations for anyone who wants to meet up with each other~ FORM: https://t.co/k0tBcfcwlY MAP:… (goblinodds) — 32 likes
  18. it's worth saying for the record: i don't think i would have built Fractal (or built this twitter account) without @visakanv. he is an absolute cultural force. i believe so many projects around here… (__drewface) — 32 likes
  19. every tpot man gives off such a high level of bisexual particles that my gayger counter simply does not function properly (dschorno) — 31 likes
  20. a scene is not a community. oftentimes this distinction doesn't really matter but sometimes it really does https://t.co/YT13kUAiZm (visakanv) — 31 likes
  21. Just now I remembered a story I want to tell: the most magical / divine intervention / storybook perfect moment of my life. I was invited as a guest at an international conference of activists in… (RichDecibels) — 31 likes
  22. guy with 58 good friends from tpot: "what has tpot ever achieved?" (RichDecibels) — 31 likes
  23. I've come down on team 'TPOT is not a community (and that's okay)'A community is a circle of trust. You can't trust people you don't know (or know known-by-trusted-others). You can't gain either… (michaelcurzi) — 30 likes
  24. rising stars 2023, <7k @univrsw3th4rt @jessicamalonso @strangestloop @tenobrus @this_is_silvia @animalologist @pragueyerrr @phokarlsson @itinerantfog @neats29 @kasratweets @leahprime… (visakanv) — 30 likes
  25. ive found that the kind of guy who hates me the most has 99% identical worldview to me except the last 1% is that he thinks being public-facing and selling books is wrong (visakanv) — 30 likes
  26. TPOT arguing about whether pain is good without clarifying terms or an assessment framework https://t.co/EgVyUjPOzB (michaelcurzi) — 30 likes
  27. @architectonyx @strangestloop @ZacharyHundley building on this to make an even deeper ingroup/postrat lore chart, thanks for the inspo https://t.co/84ZIXV94qw (qorprate) — 29 likes
  28. 1. Nerds (people for whom curiosity is a dominant drive) are rare to begin with. Let’s say 5-10% 2. Friendly nerds and ambitious nerds tend to be broadly assumed to be separate camps, different and… (visakanv) — 29 likes
  29. but worst of all, it's full of men around 30 who like making friends (myhandle) — 29 likes
  30. i'm so proud of this meme's longevity and remixability 🌀⛵️🐉 technically anybody could've come up with "put two extremes on opposite ends on a painting of odysseus navigating scylla and charybdis",… (visakanv) — 29 likes
  31. If you have no idea what “lemur” means on Twitter or what a “vibe camp” is, let me know—I need to follow all of you so you can show me the way out (the_wilderless) — 29 likes
  32. I shouldn’t even say this but there’s someone on TPOT that’s so mind-blowingly beautiful. It’s as if God took a secret 8th day off just to personally carve her face. (nosilverv) — 29 likes
  33. i fucking love it when i can see thoughts circulating between people on here like yes hahaha we're one big giant brain let's fucking go (QiaochuYuan) — 29 likes
  34. possible failure mode of twitter: high-branching-factor nerds surround themselves with their own kind and basically enable each other to just spin their gears without connecting to the wider… (exgenesis) — 29 likes
  35. it was all worth it just to get this one comment from gwern > You begin to see that you don't speak, you just operate a machine called language, which squeaks and groans https://t.co/mqHWhzL3Sl (QiaochuYuan) — 29 likes
  36. it’s a small % of people who post anything at all in that group it’s a small % who put in any real thought or effort at all in that group it’s a small % who have a long game in mind and stick around… (visakanv) — 29 likes
  37. we can increase scene wealth by telling mutuals, honestly, when we truly believe it, that “this thread should be a blogpost” (visakanv) — 28 likes
  38. i think there are people around here who are like 1-5 friends' worth of encouragement away from blowing up into era-defining talents https://t.co/C1Q3AYxKhM (QiaochuYuan) — 28 likes
  39. Here's the first version of a tpot directory! 276 links to things! Thanks to everyone for sharing their stuff! https://t.co/t3GhvQEOlJ (strangestloop) — 28 likes
  40. This part of twitter is oasis. There are norms, and not rules - and you cannot rely even on the norms. There are strange and dangerous people, there are hermits who live nearby who you may never… (PrinceVogel) — 28 likes
  41. If we are going to condemn any behavior, we should condemn bullying. In particular, the brand of bullying practiced by this mid, tryhard primadonna, @michaelcurzi. https://t.co/2EXOPpY1ft (vividvoid) — 28 likes
  42. disagreeable people are a really important part of the tpot ecosystem bc occasionally they say what everyone else is too polite to but anyone high status and disagreeable must be bullied… (goblinodds) — 28 likes
  43. i said i thought we should be disagreeing more so to put my money where my mouth is: i find nick cammarata’s entire philosophy of life deeply abhorrent and have for years, it feels to me essentially… (QiaochuYuan) — 28 likes
  44. New spiritual TPOT theory is that for most of history, people like us were the troublesome children of minor nobility that got sent off to monasteries and became banger theologians and monks Alas,… (vividvoid) — 28 likes
  45. to scale, tpot needs really good art (exgenesis) — 28 likes
  46. tpot is a collective dream shared by socially intelligent people, and trends toward higher collective intelligence a thread about why this is exciting to me (it implies our growing capacity to… (puheenix) — 28 likes
  47. so i've been to 8 tpot camps in the last year (one of which i co-organized) and i think i'm about done at my last two camps, Caulicamp and JessCamp3, i felt passive, listless, and low-energy,… (yoltartar) — 28 likes
  48. TPOT is the UFC of life-improving modalities (frideswyth) — 28 likes
  49. Sermonposting without shitposting gets you pedestalized, which is dehumanizing Shitpost too much and nobody takes you seriously, which is also kind of dehumanizing You can nerdpost forever quite… (visakanv) — 27 likes
  50. [mutuals only] I wanna assemble a list of friends who have offerings of some kind (product, coaching/consulting services, blog, youtube channel, etc). shill your stuff, friends!! (visakanv) — 27 likes

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