Evinceo

Agreed

When he talks about LLCs, the real thing he’s referring to has to be capitalism. The “unaligned AI is already here, it’s corporations” trope has been around for a while, and I don’t think it convinced a lot of people to become socialists.

Nah, this is the threat as he describes it:

Every moment that we remain stuck in the enshitternet is a moment of existential risk. At the click of a mouse, Trump could order John Deere to switch off all the tractors in your country

He doesn't need tanks to steal Greenland. He can just shut off Denmark's access to American platforms like Office365, iOS and Android and brick the whole damned country. It would be another Strait of Hormuz, but instead of oil and fertilizer, he'd control the flow of Lego, Ozempic and deliciously strong black licorice

He's not saying that "corporations are a parasitic species we created that will devour our precious planet and ability to survive and turn it into shareholder value for our corpses to enjoy" no sir he's saying we need to switch to open source replacements for Office 360 and get Right To Repair for our tractors.

It's not just that he fails a purity test it's that he basically only cares about his pet issues like right to repair and hating copyright and positions himself as a social activist while twisting real social issues to fit into his framework of 'copyright bad, hackers fix this.'

This has been getting posted repeatedly on a reddit sub I follow and it's funny that we're still finding Harris fans who somehow didn't catch on for all these years that the dude is just straight up racist and hates Muslims on an individual basis. The fact that he was probably the most commonly mentioned podcaster on the slate star codex sub is a sign!

I'll steal my general remark from one of the threads on DTG:

Sam, if you're allowed to call the mayor an Islamist because his wife liked some posts on social media, can we call you a racist for having a notorious racist on your podcast to yammer about the woke menace?

Let's just ignore the parts of the globe that also got raped and pillaged under colonialism and didn't turn into moontouching superpowers I guess.

That was when he got a very gentle NYT bio and flipped his lid.

Aella showed up.

in a nation that has been quietly cultivating a culture of heroic violence for decades we shouldn’t be surprised to see people trying to inflict that fear and rage upon the outside world.

Nay a culture where every citizen is entitled to one armed crashout and threats of such have been an important lever used by the party that believes in that entitlement for decades.

His substack reads like LW.

If they understand that AI is like germs I do not care if sometimes people eat food off the floor following the ten second rule. But we aren't even there yet, people think it's like gold or mana from heaven or something.

I would once again like to gloat that I called it.

After the first copycat maybe some calls got made /tinfoil