zara said in #5044 2d ago:
The two most important posts on Sofiechan this year didn't get nearly enough discussion. First, this one: >>5033
> I think that quality thinking about the future of AI is really lacking. [...]
> Notably, basically no one is thinking about either from a hard-right angle or a Palladium-style governance angle.
Second: >>5021
> Most people think of the American Dream as "buy a house, raise a family" – but I think this is cope for what the American Dream actually represented
Let's address both.
Broadly, America has always been about the frontier. Not the goycattle dream of crate ownership, but rather the dream of infinite exploration, expansion, and anabolic action. Minecraft Creative Mode, the country. Originally instantiated as a "New World", escape from the eternal eurocuck, then as Homesteading, finally in the postwar West Coast. But the whole time it was also the heart we're now left with--the technocapital frontier.
And of course, Land is right. We live in an accelerating world. Time compresses. Adoption curves asymptote to the vertical. Information fog-of-war headlight distance becomes ever shorter. Anyone who says they know what the world is like in 2030 is lying.
What does all this mean for the Right? It means we must lose our comfy copes. We've already dispensed with the first cope, the Low Energy Jeb idea that once we fix a few pesky problems we'll be left alone. People who want to win beat people who want to be left alone. Past the comfort of the grill, then, lies the goal: the acquisition and effective use of real political power. Study Missao. The mission is to build the machine.
This brings us to the second cope: the idea that we can go back. "Make America Great Again" is a four-word ode to the past. Nothing against Trump, he is the richly-deserved locust plague that our flabby and flatulent neil degrasse tyson ruling class brought on themselves. He serves a purpose. But it's entirely unreasonable to expect an 80-year-old man to lead us through hyperacceleration.
The lynchpin of the second cope is the idea that AI is fake, that tech is incremental. This is pure boomer brain. If you do not have a $200/mo subscription & a real harness you must find someone TODAY and have them show you. The tip of the spear is putting the AI in a loop with lookups and hard feedback. "Prove this theorem", "don't give up until tests pass", etc. "Play yourself at Go until you can beat all human grandmasters at Go." That last one is a decade old at this point. Boomerbrain has no excuse.
Whatever limitations AI still has, they're rapidly being lifted. I've used it to do in minutes work that would've taken me days.
Past the second cope lies the second goal: to MAKE OUR GUYS RIDE THE WAVEFRONT. As technology accelerates, the cost of being anywhere else increases. The second goal is therefore directly necessary for the first. In darwinian competition between political machines, the one that automates most aggressively will win.
The final challenge is inspiration. How do we extend the power of the machine to as many on our team as possible? How do we turn accelerating progress into something that a critical mass of productive Americans identify with? Here we are tantalizingly close to victory. The left has shown itself reflexively anti-AI, anti-tech. They cower behind truly absurd copes and seethes like "AI is bad because datacenters use too much water" and "Elon is dumb".
So the crown is ours for the taking. Some retards on our side appear to be aligning anti-AI as well; eject them. Our mission is to build superhuman schools, superhuman factories, vast logistics and power sources. To make machine intelligence as symbiotic to the productive frontier American as the horse once was. To hear the wails of a million useless HR ladies and obese DMV chairstains as they are REPLACED. To reorient excess productive capacity toward physical construction, manufacturing, exploration, procreation. The American dream is the same it always was: to walk to the edge of the world, then one step further.
> I think that quality thinking about the future of AI is really lacking. [...]
> Notably, basically no one is thinking about either from a hard-right angle or a Palladium-style governance angle.
Second: >>5021
> Most people think of the American Dream as "buy a house, raise a family" – but I think this is cope for what the American Dream actually represented
Let's address both.
Broadly, America has always been about the frontier. Not the goycattle dream of crate ownership, but rather the dream of infinite exploration, expansion, and anabolic action. Minecraft Creative Mode, the country. Originally instantiated as a "New World", escape from the eternal eurocuck, then as Homesteading, finally in the postwar West Coast. But the whole time it was also the heart we're now left with--the technocapital frontier.
And of course, Land is right. We live in an accelerating world. Time compresses. Adoption curves asymptote to the vertical. Information fog-of-war headlight distance becomes ever shorter. Anyone who says they know what the world is like in 2030 is lying.
What does all this mean for the Right? It means we must lose our comfy copes. We've already dispensed with the first cope, the Low Energy Jeb idea that once we fix a few pesky problems we'll be left alone. People who want to win beat people who want to be left alone. Past the comfort of the grill, then, lies the goal: the acquisition and effective use of real political power. Study Missao. The mission is to build the machine.
This brings us to the second cope: the idea that we can go back. "Make America Great Again" is a four-word ode to the past. Nothing against Trump, he is the richly-deserved locust plague that our flabby and flatulent neil degrasse tyson ruling class brought on themselves. He serves a purpose. But it's entirely unreasonable to expect an 80-year-old man to lead us through hyperacceleration.
The lynchpin of the second cope is the idea that AI is fake, that tech is incremental. This is pure boomer brain. If you do not have a $200/mo subscription & a real harness you must find someone TODAY and have them show you. The tip of the spear is putting the AI in a loop with lookups and hard feedback. "Prove this theorem", "don't give up until tests pass", etc. "Play yourself at Go until you can beat all human grandmasters at Go." That last one is a decade old at this point. Boomerbrain has no excuse.
Whatever limitations AI still has, they're rapidly being lifted. I've used it to do in minutes work that would've taken me days.
Past the second cope lies the second goal: to MAKE OUR GUYS RIDE THE WAVEFRONT. As technology accelerates, the cost of being anywhere else increases. The second goal is therefore directly necessary for the first. In darwinian competition between political machines, the one that automates most aggressively will win.
The final challenge is inspiration. How do we extend the power of the machine to as many on our team as possible? How do we turn accelerating progress into something that a critical mass of productive Americans identify with? Here we are tantalizingly close to victory. The left has shown itself reflexively anti-AI, anti-tech. They cower behind truly absurd copes and seethes like "AI is bad because datacenters use too much water" and "Elon is dumb".
So the crown is ours for the taking. Some retards on our side appear to be aligning anti-AI as well; eject them. Our mission is to build superhuman schools, superhuman factories, vast logistics and power sources. To make machine intelligence as symbiotic to the productive frontier American as the horse once was. To hear the wails of a million useless HR ladies and obese DMV chairstains as they are REPLACED. To reorient excess productive capacity toward physical construction, manufacturing, exploration, procreation. The American dream is the same it always was: to walk to the edge of the world, then one step further.
referenced by: >>5062
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