Ian Miles Cheong First Recipient of Neuralink Thanks to Inherently Low Risk of Damaging Intellect

“All of the preliminary scans showed very little overall activity, so the whole thing seemed pretty low risk,” Samson said. “Of course, we didn’t realize he was actually a citizen and resident of Malaysia. We figured he was based in the US because of the sheer amount of posts about American politics, but once we had that little wrinkle ironed out, getting the paperwork done was simple enough – no doctor seemed to care.”

Oh... That's nice...

Yea I don't like it either. I get that it's supposed to ve a reference to his talking of Americans in first person even though he's not, and suggest that his rights are ignored because he's not American. But even with that context it comes across as "haha this guy is intellectually disabled and foreign".
IMC is not mentally disabled. He's a malicious piece of shit fascist.
@averyminya @swlabr It's funny because it's racist!
- What's racist? Seems to be entirely based on Cheong's decade-plus of well-documented online behavior, not on his race.
I'm split on this. On one hand, it's not very good writing from Hard Drive, and it's fairly xenophobic as a stance. On the other hand, one of my favorite arguments against ex-USA expats is that -- by giving up their citizenship -- they gave up their right to critique the USA's actions and policies; symmetrically, I'm not sure that we need to respect the opinions of non-citizens about our internal policies, except when our actions affect the rest of the world.
Cheong likes to bitch about the local policies of the Pacific Northwest, for example, and I don't think that BC, Washington, or Oregon need to respect his opinions.
- imo i think everyone has a moral duty to critique policies that hurt human beings anywhere, whether or not it affects them personally, and especially when it affects people in a country as politically corrupt as, for instance, the United States of America.
  (ian miles cheong however has a duty to shut the fuck up if he doesn't want people to exercise their moral duty to shut him up forcibly)
- I’m a communist, I’ll criticise who I want about what they do wherever
- On the other hand, one of my favorite arguments against ex-USA expats is that – by giving up their citizenship – they gave up their right to critique the USA’s actions and policies; symmetrically, I’m not sure that we need to respect the opinions of non-citizens about our internal policies, except when our actions affect the rest of the world.
  this makes no sense bro. give up their right to critique? what does that even mean? what does it mean to "need to respect"? how do you distinguish between when US policies do and don't affect the rest of the world? we are culturally, politically, economically and military hegemonic that being able to make such a division is a luxury specific to us; other countries are forced to care about our internal politics. there's widespread resentment about that.
  (if anything I think your post illustrates why this a fumble on the hard drive's part: the weird part about how IMC comments on american politics isn't that he's Malaysian, it's that he pretends to be american. the way it's phrased plays into subtextually nationalist tendencies)
- Sorry are you currently a member of have you been a member of lesswrong? No? How can you criticize them than on sneerclub? (I'm just using this dumb argument to show you a bit of the flaws in yours, not that I have not used yours in annoyance once or twice myself, it just isn't a good argument, that you need to be a member of something to critique it, and esp not in sneerclub, as quite a few of the old reddit regs were iirc not from SV).
  Anyway, my problem with Cheong isn't that he is a weirdo who is obsessed with the USA and does this all for free (He was never paid for his incel corner articles apparently), it is that he is arguing for the wrong side, licking the boot and asking for seconds so to say. E: also for horribly mangling images of models and abusing an AI() who does that to make a weird incel point.
  *: as there is an infinitely small chance (as 0 is apparently not a probablity) that the current crop of AI becomes self aware, I think this would be their exhibit A for wiping out humanity.
- by giving up their citizenship – they gave up their right to critique the USA’s actions and policies
  respectfully, I think this is a bullshit take/perspective. example: as a ZAian, I am exposed to an incredibly wide number of USA policies and actions (both immediately and downstream, "outcomes of actions" etc). should the mere fact of me not being a USAian citizen withdraw any capacity for me to critique those things? I think not
  (edit: I realize you also remarked on the "rest of world" aspect of this, but .... the scope of decisions in-US tend so broad and long-term relevant, I don't think it really makes sense to argue the point that you made)

After the general shitshow regarding Hard Drive back in November, I'm not shocked they missed this hard.

I have no idea who this Ian guy is. Is his entire claim to fame having bad takes on Twitter? Cause that's a dime a dozen.

@V0ldek @swlabr
He has also written for right-wing sites like the Daily Caller, and turns up as a pundit on third-rate right wing news channels like OANN.

There is a lot about the hard drive (and imc i guess) that I am learning from this thread. I did not know about any of the goings on at the hard drive. I’m trying to find articles and so forth about what’s been happening with hard drive but would love some pointers.

(Also I shared this based on the title and not the text, my bad.)

If this is the kind of thing they're making now i'm willing to bet it's because they fired everyone who sided against overt genocide. Actual libshit.