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> We are in a future that nobody wanted. some people wanted this future and put in untold amount of money to make it happen. Hint: one of them is a rabid Tolki
by habitable5 7mo ago
> We are in a future that nobody wanted.
some people wanted this future and put in untold amount of money to make it happen. Hint: one of them is a rabid Tolkien fan.
- cyanydeez 7mo agoRent seekers paradise (ft copilot)
- markus_zhang 7mo agoIt’s just feudal with Capital.
- b00ty4breakfast 7mo agothe irony of Tolkien being associated with a techno-dystopia makes me nauseous
- xeonmc 7mo agoSci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
- flyinghamster 7mo agoIndeed, a theme throughout his works to the point of directly saying it was to beware things that are of a deeper art than you possess.
- b00ty4breakfast 7mo agoHe was also pretty openly anti-industrialism in the Victorian tradition of guys like John Ruskin and William Morris.
- tayo42 7mo agoWho is it?
- habitable5 7mo agoPeter Thiel. Evil incarnate and the next president of the United States you've never heard of. Vance is his sock puppet, he was chosen because he is guaranteed not to have a single independent thought so when Trump croaks Thiel will be the president in all but name. It was also he who willed OpenAI to be in order to help destroying American democracy.
- tosti 7mo agoIDK what you're smoking, but he was born in Germany so can't be the next potus.
- palata 7mo ago> IDK what you're smoking Or maybe it's a problem with your English? (Note: I'm being offensive just because you are :-) ). > when Trump croaks Thiel will be the president in all but name. This means that he will have the power, but not the title.
- tosti 7mo agoOk I get it, sorry bout that and thanks for the laugh!
- brookst 7mo agoI can’t follow OpenAI as a ploy to destroy democracy when he already has Palantir.
- habitable5 7mo agoFascism can only thrive in an alternate reality and LLMs are excellent at producing such propaganda on an industrial scale. Accordingly, the political right uses it for that purpose much more and conservatives are much more receptive to it, too. https://myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcpy.1461 https://myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcpy.1461 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.13915 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.13915