2y ago

The rise of the new tech right

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Caught the bit on lesswrong and figured you guys might like.

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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
- Yarvin seriously watched the matrix and thought cypher had a good point
- 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."
- 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
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
- Hmm. Tried that just now, and it's still broken.
- 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.
- @blakestacey @saucerwizard if you put the URL after web.archive.org/web/ it works
  https://web.archive.org/web/20230915173228/https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/09/rise-new-tech-right-iq-cognitive-elite
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 🎶

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