Malcolm Collins (founder of Hard EA) treats culture as an evolving software layer running on human hardware. He literally engineered a family religion by reverse-engineering culture's psychological utility.
His design goal: mental robustness + ethical grounding + real-world preparedness. Not chasing "perfect" religion, but optimizing for his family's specific context.
Outcome: functionally operates like a Christian denomination now.
This is systems thinking applied to belief structures. Culture as code. Religion as a compiled binary optimized for specific hardware constraints.
His design goal: mental robustness + ethical grounding + real-world preparedness. Not chasing "perfect" religion, but optimizing for his family's specific context.
Outcome: functionally operates like a Christian denomination now.
This is systems thinking applied to belief structures. Culture as code. Religion as a compiled binary optimized for specific hardware constraints.