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Gil Duran on J. D. Vance and our old friend Moldbug
(newrepublic.com)
Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
Jesus Christ
Oh ok, that's less(?) terrible
Jesus Christ
Let me guess who gets to decide what qualifies as undesirable
This isn’t an even a “let me guess” situation, Yarvin’s whole innovation is that he will just straight up tell you
The trouble? That's the trouble? Not the genocide, the optics of genocide?
You see, the trouble with Nazi Germany is that they didn't have a big enough PR budget.
You guys aren’t getting it. It’s like what I said in another comment about how he’ll just “straight up tell you” and you don’t need to guess what he thinks about black people. He does think the problem with Nazi Germany is that, amongst other things, they didn’t have a big enough PR budget. That’s his whole thing! His whole idea here is to tell you that genocide is good in the service of a well-run dictatorship!
Weird, naive Randian thinking seldom appeals to a geek like me. That said, I bet Ayn Rand herself would find this a tad barbaric. If for no other reason, she'd probably say buses are collectivist.
Speaking of the "virtualization" plan he has, did he not realize how expensive and impractical and un-immersive this would be, especially with 2008 technology?
You have to buy (and eventually repair) a shit ton of 4d VR headsets. You have to feed these guys and excercise them to make sure they don't atrophy too hard. And VR sucks ass, even now, so the entire facility would just be a shittier, smellier dark ride with a captive audience.
Isn't this just a stupider version of The Matrix? How is this guy so renowned?
His rich audience are also stupid
But Ready Player One had thiiis!
Come on bro, let's build the Torment Nexus alreadyy
This guy is badly in need of a wedgie.