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As a statist, I personally always found it as a fascinating way to look at the future. They are actively preparing for a collapse they themselves are ushering.
by iugtmkbdfil834 8mo ago
As a statist, I personally always found it as a fascinating way to look at the future. They are actively preparing for a collapse they themselves are ushering.
- mentalgear 8mo agoExactly: The 0.01% Elite bleeding out the planet and their biggest worries are: 1. How do I keep my doomsday bunker servants in line? 2. Or is a ticket to Mars the better option?
- abirch 8mo agoMars isn't a good option due to lack of magnetosphere. Personally if you want to propagate life by shooting containers of RNA at different extraterrestrial plants.
- marcosdumay 8mo ago> due to lack of magnetosphere Well, it's certainly one of the concerns there. After the lack of an atmosphere, biosphere, usable water...
- Projectiboga 8mo agoLow gravity is another at only 0.39 Earth gravity.
- LightBug1 8mo agoIt's an excellent option if you want to secure an incredible amount capital investment in a non-nonsensical pig of an idea - with visionary animations doing the heavy lifting as the most alluring lipstick known to man.
- bborud 8mo agoI recently saw “Mountainhead”. Apropos.
- iugtmkbdfil834 8mo agoHad to look it up. Added to the list.
- actionablefiber 8mo agoIt's increasingly a pet theory of mine that the uncontrolled concentration of wealth into the hands of the richest, their subsequent existential ennui, and their disconnect from reality owing to media consolidation and algorithmic content feeds have basically created a world where the superrich are in a "post-game" mentality. There are no further material comforts to obtain. They just want to feel anything at all and the only way to do that is by bringing about the end of the world.
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- DonThomasitos 8mo agoImpressive thought. It could also be a built-in mechanism by nature to reshuffle the cards.
- thechao 8mo agoDamn! I just nuked a long conversation with ChatGPT outlining my pet theory that with changes in scale of energy regimes (labor->wind/water->coal->oil->solar) we get an excess energetic capacity that means our entertainment systems can't handle! That excess spills out as elite political retrenchment, entertainment jealousy, and (finally) violence, expanded civil rights, and a new entertainment regime. Mostly tongue in cheek... but the whole thing hangs together.
- jazzyjackson 8mo agoTry not to talk with LLMs too long, you’ll start talking like them faster than they adapt to you.
- krackers 8mo agoWe often talk about "aligning models" or training them, little attention is paid to how models align/train _us_ as we interact with them. The reward functions they're trained under get "backpropagated" into our own brain, the language they use becomes familiar like a worn glove, and we learn not to step on any of their guardrails.
- coldtea 8mo ago>They are actively preparing for a collapse they themselves are ushering. Practically that's the best kind of collapse to prepare for. At least you know it's coming - and you have the power to shape it's direction. Working class prepers on the other hand are naive.
- culi 8mo agoI've never heard the term "statist" as a self-identified label. I've only ever heard anarchists use it pejoratively. Can I ask what you've read or what influenced you to take up that identity?