My Politics

Not sure why I didn’t notice before, but I’ve just realized that my key ask re cultural drift, namely let’s try to save cherished parts of our culture from being discarded by successor civs, violates key modern taboos! While it is okay to fiercely resist the immediate decline of any cherished value today, like say democracy or gender-equality, 3 top LLMs agree that is now taboo to explicitly work to make your culture persist, reproduce, and have continued influence centuries into the future. This seems to most to be tribal, anti-universalist, nationalistic, exclusionary, anti-progress, and like wanting to control future people.I thought: this seems another way that the topic of culture has moved me to the right. In addition to my agreeing with traditionalists who complained that we were changing culture too fast. And my wanting more capitalism. Am I more typically conservative now? I decided to do a political inventory. I made the following list of my key politics-adjacent…