Assembly of Silence

In this second conversation with Kira Shishkin we discuss informed, the company he founded to battle information overload and bias.Here is some additional information provided by Kira's team:About informedinformed is your news concierge to beat information overload. It provides minimal, concise, and factual daily news briefings via SMS to keep you informed without the influence of bias, sensationalism, or advertisements. Know more, read less.https://informed.nowAbout Kira ShishkinKira Shishkin is the CEO of informed, the news concierge service to beat information overload. Kira is a 4-time serial entrepreneur, strategic advisor, and investor in the technology industry. His experience spans investment banking, corporate strategy, and private equity investments in category-defining ventures. His education includes University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, and Stanford. Kira was in Forbes 30 Under 30.You can alternatively text “join” to 844-406-INFO (4636).Listen on your preferred podcast platforms:https://www.youtube.com/@assemblyofsilencehttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjqYiaP_oR3BHAwjZzKdXIi-UWmf4CHqv&si=dZrNJxf-lODZ9MAphttp://taijjireality.substack.comhttp://patreon.com/taijirealityhttps://liberationreadings.wixsite.com/home Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe

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This episode marks an Assembly of Silence first: I received an email request for a guest to appear on the show. At first I was somewhat suspicious because, well - that's the smart thing to be when you're contacted by unknown entities on the internet. Happily Kira and Informed are the real deal.This conversation is the first of a series. The subject matter should be of great interest to anyone who “consumes content” - particularly those of us who do so with the goal of becoming better informed.I encourage everyone to take a look at Informed's approach to media minimalism. Information overload is a critical problem (particularly at this juncture where the Cartesian Crisis is seeping into every corner of the information landscape). Perhaps the only way to manage this situation is to carefully select a quality filter. This will certainly be discussed in depth in future episodes of this series.The Informed website is: http://844406.info/joinYou can alternatively text “join” to 844-406-INFO (4636).Listen on your preferred podcast platforms:https://www.youtube.com/@assemblyofsilencehttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjqYiaP_oR3BHAwjZzKdXIi-UWmf4CHqv&si=dZrNJxf-lODZ9MAphttp://taijjireality.substack.comhttp://patreon.com/taijirealityhttps://liberationreadings.wixsite.com/home Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe

For this episode I am joined with Creative Catalyst Cameron Stephens. I had the pleasure of meeting Cameron during a meeting of Bret Weinstein's Coalition of the Reasonable. Cameron was deeply involved in the Game B exercise to envision a better set of rules for human engagement.Mentioned in this episode:The Multipolar Trap: why in the absence of consequence for bad actors things keep getting worse.What (The F) happened to the United States starting in 1971 - and is there any way to recover from it?Listen on your preferred podcast platforms:https://www.youtube.com/@assemblyofsilencehttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjqYiaP_oR3BHAwjZzKdXIi-UWmf4CHqv&si=dZrNJxf-lODZ9MAphttp://taijjireality.substack.comhttp://patreon.com/taijirealityhttps://liberationreadings.wixsite.com/home Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe

It's a total coincidence I'm releasing this just as pyramid power hits the top of the charts (which btw is probably bs - radar tech they used can't penetrate those depths).Truly - I recorded most of this months ago. But hey, no coincidences…right?Listen on your preferred podcast platforms:https://www.youtube.com/@assemblyofsilencehttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjqYiaP_oR3BHAwjZzKdXIi-UWmf4CHqv&si=dZrNJxf-lODZ9MAphttp://taijjireality.substack.comhttp://patreon.com/taijirealityhttps://liberationreadings.wixsite.com/home Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe

The Future is a recapitulation of the Past, always. Just different organizations of matter.Listen on your preferred podcast platforms:https://www.youtube.com/@assemblyofsilencehttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjqYiaP_oR3BHAwjZzKdXIi-UWmf4CHqv&si=dZrNJxf-lODZ9MAphttp://taijjireality.substack.comhttp://patreon.com/taijirealityhttps://liberationreadings.wixsite.com/home Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe

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Inspired by a comment from Cameron Stevens during Bret Weinstein’s Coalition of the Reasonable, this video was made to present the ideas to Cameron and I figured others may find it interesting too (assuming he does).http://taijjireality.substack.comhttp://patreon.com/taijirealityhttps://liberationreadings.wixsite.com/home Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe

This one may be difficult to follow due to technical issues but I think it still makes sense and I (as always) hope it's worth the time and effort it will take to absorb.Listen on your preferred podcast platforms:https://www.youtube.com/@assemblyofsilencehttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjqYiaP_oR3BHAwjZzKdXIi-UWmf4CHqv&si=dZrNJxf-lODZ9MAphttp://taijjireality.substack.comhttp://patreon.com/taijirealityhttps://liberationreadings.wixsite.com/home Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe

This one may be difficult to follow due to technical issues but I think it still makes sense and I (as always) hope it's worth the time and effort it will take to absorb.Listen on your preferred podcast platforms:https://www.youtube.com/@assemblyofsilencehttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjqYiaP_oR3BHAwjZzKdXIi-UWmf4CHqv&si=dZrNJxf-lODZ9MAphttp://taijjireality.substack.comhttp://patreon.com/taijirealityhttps://liberationreadings.wixsite.com/home Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe

If you don't know the narratives you're missing the story. The world of humanity develops by the inspiration of our narratives and the entire planet is impacted as a consequence. The turning of the world is presently spinning at the rate of computer processing power. Think about it.http://patreon.com/taijirealityhttps://liberationreadings.wixsite.com/homeListen on your preferred podcast platforms:https://www.youtube.com/@assemblyofsilencehttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjqYiaP_oR3BHAwjZzKdXIi-UWmf4CHqv&si=dZrNJxf-lODZ9MAp Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe

Video versions of this episode can be seen either on Substack or YouTube.Dissatisfied with the standard analytical framework which treats politics, history, biology and evolution as if they were separate, here’s a tentative effort to bring them together into a common narrative. What do you think?Thank you for sharing, liking, subscribing, supporting…http://patreon.com/taijirealityhttps://liberationreadings.wixsite.com/homeListen on your preferred podcast platforms:https://www.youtube.com/@assemblyofsilencehttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjqYiaP_oR3BHAwjZzKdXIi-UWmf4CHqv&si=dZrNJxf-lODZ9MAp Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe

Please let me know if you would enjoy more short episodes like this one. Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe

The approach is simple but difficult, often painful but with perseverance: always rewarding.http://patreon.com/taijirealityhttps://liberationreadings.wixsite.com/homeListen on your preferred podcast platforms:https://www.youtube.com/@assemblyofsilencehttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjqYiaP_oR3BHAwjZzKdXIi-UWmf4CHqv&si=dZrNJxf-lODZ9MAp Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe

Continuing along similar lines to last episode…There's just no way for me to not see things the way I see them. That’s not because I’ve always had the same perspective. Quite the contrary. My POV has changed radically so many times, I have no idea how I would see things if I still saw them the way I once did.Seeing a terrible future is very motivating. But when one can see no reasonable course of action we are left to contemplate unreasonable options (this is perhaps the only fortunate dimension to the fact that the world does not operate on reasonableness).One unreasonable option is to try to fend off dark visions by articulating them as if they were going to happen. This leverages the indisputable fact that most predictions are laughably wrong. You may criticize this as mere superstition but I don't care. If I turn out to be wrong I'll know I was right. I don't see anything on the horizon that might change my present POV. I'm looking for it and will let you know if I find something.http://taijireality.substack.comhttp://patreon.com/taijirealityhttps://liberationreadings.wixsite.com/homeListen on your preferred podcast platforms:https://www.youtube.com/@assemblyofsilencehttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjqYiaP_oR3BHAwjZzKdXIi-UWmf4CHqv&si=dZrNJxf-lODZ9MAp Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe

I often find when I finally take a stand on something, it goes the other way. And so it comes as no surprise to me that my hopes for an Independent president have evaporated. Hopefully a similar fate awaits my present politically hopeless stance. I would love to believe the energy we've spent battling politics may ultimately result in meaningful positive reform. But what I've observed from recent experience in political action, it's a vanishingly small likelihood any of our efforts will result in meaningful change. The best we can hope for (imho) are superficial short-term palliatives. I'll be delighted to be proven wrong.If the situation is as hopeless as it appears - what to do? That's the focus of this new Season X of the Assembly of Silence. X represents the unknown factor. Our world is already burdened with devastatingly profound unknowns. Major instabilities on all fronts: biological, geopolitical, economic, political, social, technical, philosophical etc. We don't even know how much faith we can reasonable place in any data. The Cartesian Crisis goes far beyond the deep fakes and garbage information jamming the internet and legacy media outlets. It's in many of the academic journals of essentially every field. It's in the studies and experimental data (look up “reproducibility crisis"). It's in our personal, identitarian and national myths. AI generated content has only just begun to blow what remains of our minds. We are defenseless in the face of AI manipulation - even the experts cannot understand what LLMs are actually doing. AI is a black box with unknown consequences that's already plugged into the central nervous system of our global civilization matrix. It is now developing at a breakneck speed.Assembly of Silence Season X is an effort to prepare for a global transformation of biblical proportions. Even the most callous amongst us are now confessing the reality of this change, and many of us tremble as we see it unfold day after day. Let's see what we few Assembled can achieve before we finally fall Silent.http://taijireality.substack.comhttp://patreon.com/taijirealityhttps://liberationreadings.wixsite.com/homeListen on your preferred podcast platforms:https://www.youtube.com/@assemblyofsilencehttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjqYiaP_oR3BHAwjZzKdXIi-UWmf4CHqv&si=dZrNJxf-lODZ9MAp Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe

The finished article (which differs a wee bit from what's discussed on this podcast) can be read here: Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe

Another monologue meditating on the state of things.Apple Podcasts: Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe

You can find Judah here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/judah-veitel Video version:Apple Podcasts: Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe

A medium length monologue sewing together several Assembly of Silence themes. If you don't feel like hearing outlandish musings on institutional corruption, CBDC implications, evolutionary biology, organized crime, psychopathy etc. then perhaps it's best to just skip it. Get full access to TAIJIREALITY PUBLICATIONS at taijireality.substack.com/subscribe