Posted on 04/23/2022 5:30:36 AM PDT by Pollard
If you take this guy seriously, you’re living in a simulation
Elon Musk holds out the promise of restoring “free speech” to Twitter. Yesterday the Tesla CEO offered $43 billion dollars to buy the social media platform outright. Conservatives are intoxicated by the idea. If by some miracle the shareholders take the offer, Musk promises to relax speech-policing and make the algorithms open source.
Presumably, he’ll continue shitposting from his toilet.
If we take Musk at his word, his intention is to open real debate and save our democracy. Then again, he also told us “China rocks,” robot slaves will replace every worker, universal basic income will soon be necessary, all vehicles will be autonomous, AI will achieve a god-like status, brain implants will connect us to that god, and ultimately, there’s a billion-to-one chance our universe is just a computer simulation.
A cynical listener might suspect this cyborg car-dealer is taking the public for a ride.
Even so, in the case of Twitter, the excitement is understandable. Starting with the Great Meme War that led up to Trump’s 2016 election, the platform laid waste to the funniest dudes on Frog Twitter—from Ricky Vaughn to Kantbot2000—and eventually, the cyber-Stasi banned the sitting President of the United States.
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“China Rocks” according to Musk. He sees China’s economy being 2-3 times the size of the US and wants in on it. He’s not just building Teslas there. He thinks he’ll sell a lot of them there. He’s a very high functioning autistic person but autistic people tend to be naive.
A common tell in people like Musk, is admiration of the Chinese government and their people, just for the sake of his business associations.
I don’t trust Musk anymore than I have access to his money. He talks “chit” that plays to the audience he is addressing at the moment. That is why one finds so much contradiction in the words he utters, for it all depends on who he is talking to as to which Musk you get to see & hear.
He’s not a natural-born citizen, for real. Unlike many certain stuck-on-stupid folks try to disqualify based on their own contrived definition of NBC.
Never derail a problem solver.
Hey, Lets give the guy a chance.
certainly “Transhumanism” is the deadly sin incarnate.
but if God could use a man like Trump in 2016 to change the course of American history, He can certainly use a grifter like Musk to do the same, now.
I don’t have to love., hate, or fear Musk to admire him and approve of his takeover of Twitter.
My cat has an account there @CatsOfTwitter and it’s good fun. Political tweets are all WW3, nasty as they come. You should see the haters responding to DeSantis. I took a look and immediately bailed out.
“Grimes” is the singer he had a child with. Don’t know that she’s a commie, but she’s serious about taking care of the child and wants to live in a nice upper middle-class gated community where their family will be safe. She says that Elon is a terrific father, very involved with their child. They want three more.
Vanity Fair magazine had an article about it a month or so ago. I listened to her music, not something I’d like and you wouldn’t either, rather a tinny voice, but she does have an audience and makes plenty of $$$.
Not the way you or I would live, but for younger people, not so bad.
I don’t believe Musk has any evil thoughts or plans but once neuralink is perfected, others will get a hold of it or duplicate it for not so good reasons. Of course if he doesn’t do it, someone will. The technology is just that far along.
The other thing is secular people that think AI will be god like. I don’t think God will be thrilled with that.
Then there’s addiction. How many are addicted to tech already? Just wait for VR to come further along. Then attach it to the neural system. People won’t leave their houses. They’ll be busy banging a virtual 10 year old with full sensation.
There’s a movie called Strange Days that’s along those lines and while it does have murder scenes and possibly rape, it’s all adult characters. Been a couple of decades since I watched it.
Others like Klaus and Co wish to be superhumans that have the lifespan of someone from the Old Testament, 900 years. The military will want a different type of augmentation.
Then there’s the whole Skynet becoming self aware aspect of AI.
I probably won’t see those things but my kids aren’t even 21 yet.
Joe Allen is hard on Musk because the possible future scares the crap out of him and Musk is as far along with it as anyone. That and Musk isn’t really based in reality in some ways. Gonna colonize Mars because this planet will be uninhabitable soon. Compare conditions here to the climate of Mars. I’m sitting here surrounded by springs that pump out a gazillion gallons per hour of potable water. Not perfect but potable. A good ceramic water filter makes it very potable and clean. No way this place is going to be worse than Mars in the next millennia.
Not sure about others, but the whole
“Rah! Rah! Go, Chamber-of-Commerce! Everybody is doing it!”
stuff leaves me a bit cold.
Thanks... and agree w/ your points, Theoria
Totally agree.
Received Joe Allen’s book “Dark Aeon” today . Read the Bannon foreword and now reading the preface.
Have also been reading Old Testament Samuel….The Lord smites those who raise false gods and worship false prophets…. Pretty bloody annihilation.
Agree….though a year ago I held out judgment.
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Just received this book today and looking forward to reading. Seems well researched and documented including index and bibliography. I am a critical reader.
Keep me informed as to what you learn. I have a hard time reading books anymore with my macular degeneration.
My person belief at this point is the transhumanism is somewhat akin to the climate change. A claim to take control and obtain power. IOW mostly a hoax.
BTW, Joe Allen’s new book Dark Aeon looks like it may be a worth while read, but I do not give much credence to it all. Maybe it is just beyond my comprehension. 😋
“Dark Aeon” is a book by Joe Allen and Stephen K. Bannon that exposes globalist visions of humanity’s future from Silicon Valley to China. Allen argues that humanity’s salvation is within our grasp, only if we refuse to avert our eyes from the impending twilight before us. The book is the first comprehensive critical analysis of the planned post-human future. In Final Fantasy X, “Dark Aeons” are antagonistic counterparts of aeons and are superbosses. They have a red spot somewhere on their body and appear as darker-colored palette swaps of the aeons Yuna can summon.
The word aeon /ˈiːɒn/, also spelled eon (in American and Australian English), originally meant “life”, “vital force” or “being”, “generation” or “a period of time”, though it tended to be translated as “age” in the sense of “ages”, “forever”, “timeless” or “for eternity”.
Steve Bannon has him on his warrom show quite frequently.
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