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Weird - that's the 2nd mention of "Technate" I see in 24 hrs - never heard of that before today. (Other instance was PredictiveHistory‬ youtube here - https://

by Havoc 7mo ago

Weird - that's the 2nd mention of "Technate" I see in 24 hrs - never heard of that before today. (Other instance was PredictiveHistory‬ youtube here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk ). Guessing that's not a coincidence

y-c-o-m-b 7mo ago
I watch his channel regularly mostly for entertainment and to help form my own thoughts and opinions on the subject matter relative to other sources. I do think some of his content is accurate and useful, but a lot of it isn't. I've caught him regurgitating conspiracy threads from reddit in his teachings on more than one occasion. I think he reads those threads and possibly uses AI to design the topics around them along with a dose of some cursory research into those subjects. I'm guessing he got the term "Technate" off of reddit as well, as I've seen it mentioned there. EDIT: looks like it might be based off this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement#The_technate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement#The_techn... It's probably influenced by findings after Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin conspiracies started spiking in popularity in recent months
- Havoc 7mo ago
  I'd be a little reluctant to mark his speeches as "conspiracy". I don't disagree with that on a qualitative level, but predictive history is as the name suggests forward looking. We're by definition up to our eyeballs into speculative territory here, a lot of it may align with conspiracy. So yeah may land on the same ballpark, but still think "conspiracy" label does the dude a disservice.
oa335 7mo ago
Also noticed that… another consequence of convergence of culture due to algorithmic management of attention?
- Havoc 7mo ago
  Honestly I have no idea what to make of it. In my mind it could be: 1) Simple copycat - article author is watching predictive history which seems plausible given channels surge in popularity 2) Algo effects 3) Coincidence / think of pink elephant effect 4) An actual coordinated intentional campaign by [insert evildoer with insert evildoer motive here...or even 3 letter agency meaning well but ending up functionally doing same as evildoer] ...the fact that I couldn't tell #4 apart from 1-3 has me a little spooked
  - geomack2 7mo ago
    The essay was actually originally published last year, long before that Predictive History video came out

by Havoc 7mo ago

y-c-o-m-b 7mo ago

I watch his channel regularly mostly for entertainment and to help form my own thoughts and opinions on the subject matter relative to other sources. I do think some of his content is accurate and useful, but a lot of it isn't. I've caught him regurgitating conspiracy threads from reddit in his teachings on more than one occasion. I think he reads those threads and possibly uses AI to design the topics around them along with a dose of some cursory research into those subjects. I'm guessing he got the term "Technate" off of reddit as well, as I've seen it mentioned there. EDIT: looks like it might be based off this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement#The_technate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement#The_techn... It's probably influenced by findings after Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin conspiracies started spiking in popularity in recent months

Havoc 7mo ago
I'd be a little reluctant to mark his speeches as "conspiracy". I don't disagree with that on a qualitative level, but predictive history is as the name suggests forward looking. We're by definition up to our eyeballs into speculative territory here, a lot of it may align with conspiracy. So yeah may land on the same ballpark, but still think "conspiracy" label does the dude a disservice.

oa335 7mo ago

Also noticed that… another consequence of convergence of culture due to algorithmic management of attention?

Havoc 7mo ago
Honestly I have no idea what to make of it. In my mind it could be: 1) Simple copycat - article author is watching predictive history which seems plausible given channels surge in popularity 2) Algo effects 3) Coincidence / think of pink elephant effect 4) An actual coordinated intentional campaign by [insert evildoer with insert evildoer motive here...or even 3 letter agency meaning well but ending up functionally doing same as evildoer] ...the fact that I couldn't tell #4 apart from 1-3 has me a little spooked
- geomack2 7mo ago
  The essay was actually originally published last year, long before that Predictive History video came out