1/Like a billionaire's space station on an asteroid, I continue to mine @adambecker.bsky.social's book for content. The lunacy of the effective altruists is lessened only slightly in the effective accelerationists (e/acc) seeking to colonize (their word, usually) space with Dyson sphere-sized egos. - ThreadSky

kyloson.com • 4 hours ago

1/Like a billionaire's space station on an asteroid, I continue to mine @adambecker.bsky.social's book for content. The lunacy of the effective altruists is lessened only slightly in the effective accelerationists (e/acc) seeking to colonize (their word, usually) space with Dyson sphere-sized egos.

Reposted from Matt Pogue

1/Started on a doozy of a book, Adam Becker's "More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity" (bookshop.org/p/books/more...). I didn't think it possible for me to respect Silicon Valley billionaires any less. Little did I know! 💙📚

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kyloson.com•4 hours ago

2/What struck me this morning? Jeff Bezos' "1000 Einsteins" quote (https://www.sciencealert.com/bezoss-vision-for-1000-einsteins-doesnt-take-into-account-37000-serial-killers). Adam makes the 1000% correct point (since we're throwing around nonsensical stats) that Bezos is completely dismissing any potential Einsteins that might be alive RIGHT NOW, living in poverty.

kyloson.com•4 hours ago

3/Bezos, Musk, Andreesen, Thiel - I think they're all bummed they missed the good ol' days of the 1800s when a white man could by God run his business without any pesky laws or regs getting in the way (he could also murder minorities and women with impunity, but I'm sure that's beside the point).

kyloson.com•4 hours ago

4/Manifest Destiny was unbridled wealth and expansion for the few, oppression and death for the many. Their ideas of a Manifest Destiny for space have a similar feel - no laws, and only the worthy get a seat. After all, there's no room for "useless eaters" on Mars. There's really nothing new here.

kyloson.com•4 hours ago

5/Conservatives to this day still rail against Obama's "you didn't build that" speech (https://www.factcheck.org/2012/07/you-didnt-build-that-uncut-and-unedited/), completely ignoring the bountiful harvest they've all reaped at society's expense, with Musk being the biggest hypocrite of the bunch. He really IS a repugnant human being.

kyloson.com•4 hours ago

6/Musk's companies reap $billions in govt. largesse - loans, contracts, tax breaks - not available to most. As the competition closes in, he wants to shut off the tap to prevent anyone else from benefiting. Even his Mars vision relies on govt. propping up SpaceX while he figures it out.

kyloson.com•4 hours ago

7/Unlike his fellow robber barons, he's in a unique position to sweep the few crumbs allowed for the rest of us into his own pocket too, gutting social programs while leaving his contracts untouched. DOGE is capturing the whole of govt. right now, as we sit back helpless to do anything about it.

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