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Against truth - by Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge

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I try not to get too meta in this space. Aside from my end-of-year posts, I don’t like to talk all that much about the general project of Numb at the Lodge, what it is I’m doing here and why; in general I think my work does fine just expressing itself without having a load of explanation slathered on top. Anyway, too much talking about the talking starts to feel like audience interaction, community-building, that sort of thing, which I’m deeply against for reasons I’ve gone into at tedious length before. I’m also against paying too much attention to the discourse, especially when it’s happening on Twitter, which is a Victorian freakshow you can’t enter without becoming one of the exhibits, owned by a man who thinks saying the word ‘meme’ is in itself funny. But sometimes, you have to make an exception. My most recent essay here, ‘The law that can be named is not the true law,’ has now been read by more than 50,000 people. This is not all that much in the grand scheme of things—it’s sti

Against truth Also against rationalism, utilitarianism, AI, and Eliezer Yudkowsky in particular Sam Kriss Jul 27, 2025 225 Share I try not to get too meta in this space. Aside from my end-of-year posts , I don’t like to talk all that much about the general project of Numb at the Lodge , what it is I’m doing here and why; in general I think my work does fine just expressing itself without having a load of explanation slathered on top. Anyway, too much talking about the talking starts to feel like audience interaction, community-building, that sort of thing, which I’m deeply against for reasons

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