This is from 1 month ago:
“Bannon calls Musk 'evil' and 'racist' as MAGA civil war boils over”
“Peter Thiel, David Sachs, Elon Musk, are all white South Africans,” Bannon said. “He should go back to South Africa. Why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, white South Africans, we have them making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States?”
Bannon hates Musk. In a wider sense, it’s a conflict between two large groups on the ‘new right’.
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A largely Christian, largely evangelical, largely middle aged, largely middle-American wing, descended from ‘classic’ Fox, Breitbart, OANN, Newsmax. Pro-Israel, pro-troops, sometimes isolationist, not-necessarily pro-NATO, shades of Buchanan at times minus the historical conspiracies, but also within the mainstream of US conservative opinion. This is where Bannon and his ‘permanent coalition’ of 60% of whites, 40% of Hispanics, 20% of blacks is. Opposed to mass immigration, but especially including H1B immigration. Especially distrustful of big tech. Want to preserve existing US demographics and may stereotype but have no overt or intellectual racial animus towards black Americans.
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Tech right, ultra online, ambivalent toward H1Bs, pro in Elon’s case, disproportionately non-white, Silicon Valley, e/acc, government waste, very pro free speech, largely parrot’s Musk’s views but also associated closely with Thiel and some other VCs. Like /pol/ often performatively racist, especially toward black people, but actually quite diverse themselves. Blue tribe, lives in big cities, probably works in tech, DOGE staffer, likely not religious except in a possibly tradcath or orthodox aesthetic-only sense, redscarepod listener or subreddit user, new right press involvement in some cases. HBD believer, read Moldbug and Land in 2010 (if they’re older, read their views rephrased in online infographics in 2017 if they’re younger).
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In addition to these you have combinations of more esoteric racists, third-worldists like Fuentes, extreme antisemites, ultra culture war obsessives still cataloguing video game wokery like it’s 2015, people who primarily have contempt for women and the wider Tate-sphere, zoomer Muslims who’ve adopted a hybrid of Islamist and western dissident right ideologies, Russophiles and nazbols like Hinkle, BAP’s gay bodybuilders and so on, and overt feds like Carlson, but they’re relatively less relevant to this current dispute.
2rafa
1hr ago
Right, what Spencer famously did after Trump’s first win was to shout “hail victory” ie the literal translation of “sieg heil”.
Possible if running on Google servers that the request is somehow queued up or prepared at least in the testing phase which they appeared to have been invited to.
2rafa
3hr ago
Maybe, but powerful men are disproportionately older and so more likely to have that same weepiness resulting from lower t.
2rafa
3hr ago
start acting like histrionic, childish retards obsessed with make-up and clothing
As you well know, mtf trains are far more likely to be obsessed with 4x strategy games and computer programming than they are with actually feminine interests.
2rafa
14hr ago
it didn't pose the question
The question was “why are some bacteria resistant to antibiotics”, ie one of the most important questions in medicine.
2rafa
15hr ago
So the entirety of the “cathedral” that governed all of western civilization was reliant on a few billy from the US foreign aid budget and the FBI? Seems unlikely.
2rafa
15hr ago
AI built on language models will always reflect us because they’re trained on us in a fundamental way. They are the product of human civilization, their ways of thinking are ours, only faster / better. Where AGI is ‘evil’ it will be evil in a human way.
2rafa
15hr ago
From 5 hours ago: A complex problem that took microbiologists a decade to get to the bottom of has been solved in just two days by a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool.
Professor José R Penadés and his team at Imperial College London had spent years working out and proving why some superbugs are immune to antibiotics.
He gave "co-scientist" - a tool made by Google - a short prompt asking it about the core problem he had been investigating and it reached the same conclusion in 48 hours.
He told the BBC of his shock when he found what it had done, given his research was not published so could not have been found by the AI system in the public domain
Prof Penadés' said the tool had in fact done more than successfully replicating his research.
"It's not just that the top hypothesis they provide was the right one," he said.
"It's that they provide another four, and all of them made sense.
"And for one of them, we never thought about it, and we're now working on that.".
The researchers have been trying to find out how some superbugs - dangerous germs that are resistant to antibiotics - get created. Their hypothesis is that the superbugs can form a tail from different viruses which allows them to spread between species. Prof Penadés likened it to the superbugs having "keys" which enabled them to move from home to home, or host species to host species. Critically, this hypothesis was unique to the research team and had not been published anywhere else. Nobody in the team had shared their findings.
Slowly it's becoming clear that ASI is already with us. Imagine if you handed someone from 100 years ago a smartphone or modern networking technology. Even after explaining how it worked, it would take them some time to figure out what to do with it. It took a long time after we invented wheels to figure out what to do with them, for example.
The technology to automate 80-90% of white collar labor already exists, for example, with current-generation LLMs. It's just about interfaces and layers and regulation and safeguards now. All very important, of course, but it's not fundamental technical challenge.
2rafa
16hr ago
And in any case, It looks like for a ~500k$ people will be able to run their own OS AGI in isolation, meaning moderately rich efilist lunatics could run their own shitty biolabs with help and spend as much time figuring out jailbreaks as needed, with no risk of snitching.
Possible, but also possible that you can just cheaply run massive automated genetic testing on trillions of particles, with billions of sensors located at every major human transit point that can pick up on those pathogens before their delayed death sentence kicks in and before they spread as widely as their proponents hope. It's all fiction for now, we'll see who wins (or perhaps not). I'm pretty optimistic humanity will survive beyond 2030.
2rafa
17hr ago
Why risk 35 years of comfortable sinecure because of 2-4 years of mild discomfort?
2rafa
18hr ago
how normalised it is that young women will just have random crying fits
It’s literally hormonal, men in middle age who have low t often get weepy before being prescribed hormones, so do mtf after being on them. I would reserve judgment until you get old and experience it for yourself.
2rafa
19hr ago
It’s not just that, if he was willing to tolerate a market crash he could just engineer a catastrophically restrictive import policy, currency controls etc and have a positive balance of trade overnight.
2rafa
21hr ago
The tariffs are ideological, but plenty of politicians have ideological commitments they don’t act on, or only partially do so. Trump’s practical concern is the stock market, it appears to be the primary metric by which he judges himself, and I actually think it is - to him - the central source of his own legitimacy, maybe as much or even more than the vote. I also think he’s amenable to advice, at least from some people, and if a trusted adviser says some tariffs will cause a market crash, he’ll be cautious.
2rafa
21hr ago
Surely there are enterprising businessmen just driving western and Japanese cars over from Armenia or the Stans?
2rafa
22hr ago
as I have no desire to buy a Chinese car when it costs more than a German car before the war.
Is that because of big tariffs on Chinese auto imports?
2rafa
23hr ago
He does have personal ideology, it’s just much more limited than many think. He feels strongly about trade policy and tariffs, and that’s mostly it.
2rafa
1d ago
They certainly were stigmatized for it as a vice, opposition to it was a huge thing in Victorian England. Small-l liberal instincts merely meant (and still mean) it wasn’t a crime.
Zelensky never wanted a war with Russia, won on a campaign of rapprochement with Russia, speaks better Russian than Ukrainian, had prewar business interests that extended into Russia and refused to believe Russia was going to invade until it pretty much happened (the CIA and MI6 tried to convince him months before he believed it). Then, after Ukraine’s surprising successes early on, it took Boris Johnson LARPing Churchill to persuade him into not signing the first reasonable deal Russia put on the table. This is all a matter of public record.
I think accusing Zelensky of being a warmonger seems therefore unreasonable. It seems very unlikely that a Russian-speaking PMC Jewish comedian and entertainment executive is some kind of hardcore blood and soil maximalist Azov Ukrainian ethnonationalist.
2rafa
1d ago
It’s a pseud meme, like young men reading Dostoyevsky and Melville or young women reading Didion or Woolf, or the /lit/ canon list in general. ‘Basic’ among a certain class of humanities-PMC types.
2rafa
1d ago
This assumes their wives acquiesce to sex whenever they want, which is surely untrue in many cases.
2rafa
1d ago
Yeah, I mean the sexual revolution has significant downsides and was probably a bad idea. Both men and women now have more sexual partners over the course of a lifetime than they did a hundred years ago; it is entirely reasonable to consider this socially deleterious - I do! But it’s also not some special treatment for women, promiscuity is now more accepted for both sexes than it was back then and the architects of the sexual revolution (and most of its biggest fans) were all men, so take it up with them.
I think AI will take most jobs, for sure. But I also think a lot more human interaction is going to have to take place in person from now on because how easy it will be to fake even HD video calls that are imperceptible very soon.
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