The rise of the new tech right
https:// archive.ph /qDg5i The rise of the new tech right
Caught the bit on lesswrong and figured you guys might like.
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
12I’ll remember to do descriptions better next time!
5The descriptions are already perfect
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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*.
12Completely aside, "Torment Nexus" would be an awesome name for a thrash metal band.
Having revealed my taste in music, I'm not in a position to claim high-brow cultural credentials - but even I can see that our would-be tech overlords are a bunch of culturally illiterate goons. Sam Altman complaining that Oppenheimer "missed the mark" on being inspirational to a generation of would-be scientists in the way the Social Network was to a generation of would-be startup founders was perhaps the tech take to end all tech takes.
10btw, here's a Culture x Matrix fanfic I enjoyed. (I think it's the only one in that cross.) i would definitely blame yarvin.
2Characters: Agent Smith, OC Culture Mind, OC Culture Ship, Neo, OC GSV
oh I can already tell this is going to be a ride
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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
9The 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
6So, 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.
6Here's a link to the original.
6Much 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.
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Oooh, Quinn Slobodian! Just read his book Crack-Up Capitalism, good stuff.
5It doesn't matter who it is, what faction, what job -
Basically everybody wants to be an autocrat now.
3🎶 everybody wants to rule the world 🎶
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