The loss of humanity always predates an authoritarian takeover. What will sober these little bitch boys up is the giant AI crash that is waiting in the wings. The decent enough AI is already in use; the rest of it is absolute garbage + only as good as the human inputs. Intelligence is human not code
being alive is so wonderful, I wish those people would stop workin against life & instead used their power to co-create utopia with everyone on the large blue rock hurling through space
Is the Altman v. Musk beef rooted in a difference of worship for their potential AI God? Curious if anybody has found anything as to how that feud works into this shared philosophy. Thanks.
They’re having more kids to increase the chances of survival for their offspring in the uninhabitable hot earth, we’re heading full-on into. AI could possibly be the final expansion of earth’s carrying capacity on our finite planet. The techno oligarchs are banking on making it through, with AI
Accelerating, possibly in order to get ahead and control the inevitable collapse. The broligarchs mindset of techno salvation conveniently marries the Christian rights end times “being saved” fantasies…
Yes. Religion is just another tool in the arsenal to attain power. Because ultimately that's the goal. 'Acceleration' is part of the fraud they're selling. In this vein, Musk is a lot like Trump. Thiel is using the Protestant tool. His protege Vance, Catholicism to grab power & execute their vision.
I wrote about these sorts of people in The Stone Canal and The Cassini Division, mainly from stuff I'd picked up from a magazine called Extropy. Hans Moravec was another source of the ideas.
I lurked on that list around about 1996 and yes it was a seedbed that is now flowering with triffids. Mind you it's STILL standing me in good stead for SF ideas.
Also, from my time there in the mid-90s while dating my ex, a lot of them got it from half-reading Robert Anton Wilson and him & Tim Leary's model of the brain as 8 'circuits'.
At 61 I am elated to be in the 4th quarter of my life. I am also ecstatic that I never had children. I’m ready to go back to stardust any time because I just know a lot of bad is going to happen on Earth from here on out
Ironically, one could argue that the Zizians are less constitutionally opposed to (biological) life than hardline billionaire TESCREaLists. Their primary point of schism was that they feel like the Rats are not appropriately modeling animal suffering in their utilitarian framework.
This is also 100% wrong. Ziz cited leading effective altruist Brian Tomasik as the primary influence on her thoughts on her animal welfare, and the only other person she acknowledged as "double-good" apart from herself.
I'm not sure how that conflicts? Yeah, there are EAs that advocate for veganism, but relatively few that also accept T(f)DT and are generally longtermist.
Thank you. "HP and the Methods of Rationality" is available in audiobook format. I started listening to it. It's not good. Can't imagine altering my worldview based upon that content.
I liked the idea and the the first however many chapters I read, when I was 14/16.
But even I got tired eventually. The writing is sufferable, but there reaches a point it's just ego boost soliloquies, one after the other.
I can see why a teen would enjoy it. I read the first book and thought it was a fun story, but I was an adult, so I wasn't the target audience. I liked the movies.
I'm more of an Ellison fan. "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a story I can sink my teeth into.
These Broligarchs as they're more properly called flatter themselves to take on the nerd epithet. When was the last time any of them wrote a line of code? It's at least 18 years for Zuckerberg, some of them might never have done so even once in their lives.
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This is forcing their will on others.
Also, stating the obvious here, if humans are obsolete, why be pronatal?
There are many cracks in these pots.
Their quest for power is also 'accelerating' global collapse. They are their own destruction. Starlink is capable of causing Kessler syndrome.
They're making many enemies
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But even I got tired eventually. The writing is sufferable, but there reaches a point it's just ego boost soliloquies, one after the other.
I'm more of an Ellison fan. "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a story I can sink my teeth into.
It feels very much like "Raised by Wolves"
Mixing religion and the fate of humanity...er Humanoidity.
Or, Mecha vs Orga
Also...they are rather self important goobs.