Caught the bit on lesswrong and figured you guys might like.
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> Yarvin turned to the new right’s fountain of meaning: technology. The captive’s cell would not be bare. It would include “an immersive virtual-reality interface which allows him to experience a rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world”.
Wait, so Moldbug just ripped off (and Torment Nexused) The Matrix less than a decade after it came out? That’s so *lazy*.
Yarvin seriously watched the matrix and thought cypher had a good point
How many technofash problems arose because these dopes were just functionally illiterate and didn’t know how to do even the basic New Critical analysis of the text that every 10 year old learns?
so many! sometimes the first tell that you’re reading techfash bullshit is when they lead in with the worst take you’ve ever heard about a work of sci-fi you’ve enjoyed. I firmly blame these fuckers for making cyberpunk boring as fuck, turning singularity fiction into a religion, and ruining post-scarcity sci-fi, all by way of stubbornly refusing to understand any of the work they’ll never stop trying to claim as their own
Musk, the boy, loved video games and computers and Dungeons & Dragons and “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” and he still does. “I took from the book that we need to extend the scope of consciousness so that we are better able to ask the questions about the answer, which is the universe,” Musk tells Isaacson. Isaacson doesn’t raise an eyebrow, and you can wonder whether he has read “Hitchhiker’s Guide,” or listened to the BBC 4 radio play on which it is based, first broadcast in 1978. It sounds like this:
Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former galactic empire, life was wild, rich, and, on the whole, tax free. . . . Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural because no one was really poor, at least, no one worth speaking of.
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide” is not a book about how “we need to extend the scope of consciousness so that we are better able to ask the questions about the answer, which is the universe.” It is, among other things, a razor-sharp satiric indictment of imperialism:
And for these extremely rich merchants life eventually became rather dull, and it seemed that none of the worlds they settled on was entirely satisfactory. Either the climate wasn’t quite right in the later part of the afternoon or the day was half an hour too long or the sea was just the wrong shade of pink. And thus were created the conditions for a staggering new form of industry: custom-made, luxury planet-building.
Musk, the boy, loved video games
And so he went on to make one of the worst Sega CD games. Bad show.
The kicker of that article is one of the best kickers I’ve ever seen, at least for readers of Hitchhiker’s:
(I know the image won’t appear on awful.systems but the article’s not paywalled and the entire paragraph is chef’s kiss perfect.)
neoreactionaries and lesswrongers are animu nerds to a man, and the answer to “what the arsing fuck??” is always anime
50% of things Yudkowsky believes about AI amount to Culture fanfic.
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Confession time: I have to this day not seen the entirety of The Social Network. As a friend of mine said back when it was new, “The only question is which asshole will end up with all the money. If I cared about that, I’d read the business section.”
Trent Reznor soundtrack though.
I was a teenager in the '90s; I don’t need to watch a movie for that. :-P
Buy the CD so you aren’t afflicted by Aaron Sorkin
btw, here’s a Culture x Matrix fanfic I enjoyed. (I think it’s the only one in that cross.) i would definitely blame yarvin.
Characters: Agent Smith, OC Culture Mind, OC Culture Ship, Neo, OC GSV
oh I can already tell this is going to be a ride
The apparent world-historical inversion, whereby the smart kids were also the rich and most powerful ones, was celebrated on iconic blogs and mailing lists such as Slate Star Codex and LessWrong (where users self-reported implausibly high IQ scores)
snerk
The IQ fetishists like to think they are living in a near future where they — the pure creative information workers imagined in the 1990s — have been elevated through their high intelligence and innate ability. They were not simply in the right place at the right time, bobbing along in a sea of liquidity in an era of zero interest rates. They were, like the staff at the Apple Store, geniuses.
also snerk
I’ll remember to do descriptions better next time!
The descriptions are already perfect
I feel like the article ends pretty suddenly, but maybe that’s just because I can already imagine the next 30 pages of explaining TESCREAL bullshittery in my head
The archive site just keeps throwing CAPTCHAs at me, so I can’t read it. Please provide more information about what this is supposed to be, thanks and happy weekend
So, this convo prompted me to finally address this, because it’s been annoying me for weeks not to be able to read archive links.
Went into Firefox settings, searched for DNS over HTTPS, scrolled to the right until I saw “manage exceptions” (why scroll to the right? Mozilla’s chrome CSS has been fakakte for a while) and added all of archive.(ph,today,is) to the exceptions list. Fixed the problem for me.
Hmm. Tried that just now, and it’s still broken.
@blakestacey damn, I’m sorry. 😞
Eh, it is what it is; computers were a mistake, etc. Thanks for the suggestion anyway (and maybe it works for other people, which is better than nothing).
Here’s a link to the original.
Much appreciated. This isn’t the first time that archive.ph has gone all GOTO 10 about clicking squares, but I don’t know what the cause might be.
this happens if you’re using Cloudflare’s or Google’s DNS servers — the 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9, and 1.1.1.1 ones. I forget the exact reason, but I do remember it’s basically an extremely petty network dispute
Oooh, Quinn Slobodian! Just read his book Crack-Up Capitalism, good stuff.
It doesn’t matter who it is, what faction, what job -
Basically everybody wants to be an autocrat now.
🎶 everybody wants to rule the world 🎶
