AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
Max Read cites Whole Earth Catalog and Fredrick Turner, SVs particular hippie libertarianism. Brand likes the turmoil of the market, Thiel and others not so much. (His dad was a CQ subscriber, man, I feel old). Engineering, tinkering, autodidact mindset (for better and worse).
Burton: The Mage stance, Chaos Magick and Crowley etc. Big in SV underground. Appeals to the sense that we are elites who can shape reality. Nietzsche, power, memes as embodiments of power. SB and "We are as gods".
Ganz: Lord of the Rings mentality. Some people have powers, others don't.
Magic appeals to those with no power, but also to those with to justify and "rationalize" it.
meme magic for the terminally online.
Burton: "techno-vitalists" if we are in a Jamesian pragmatist universe. Functionalism, because nothing is real.G
Ganz: machinery, race, magic, all somehow related.