doug casey's great ai power crunch email https://substack.com/@lauvegys/note/p-179681267
Discussion
no expert but shit seems dire at a glance
really dont know what people are thinking out here. cant even imagine where heads are at and have been at to get to this place.
didnt go to school for this, not my area, not a tech person, not my dream, not my money, not my investments
so first of all: be very fucking grateful im even typing
at a glance it really just seems like a minority of people either unconsciously, subconsciously, or actually consciously hate life on this planet. like just wanted shit to be over.
would rather be dead than share
would rather be dead than be poor
saw poor people and the poor lives they led with derision only. like watching cockroaches with disgust.
that? is heartbreaking to me
i really truly hope of all things it is not that
cos i have no other reason i can fathom to come up with, for why anyone would make such unsound unstable and unsustainable choices.
it cant be to get some imagined girl
cos no girl worth having is into shit like that
people can watch succession on the coach yea and be like: kendall roy is babygirl but that isnt about kendall roy. as in, if kendall roy was incarnate and real a girl would want that and call him babygirl. that is about the camera's lingering attention, the music, the lighting, the editing, and the fact that jeremy strong, captivating nutter that he is, shines thru that character. like you watch succession and then watch how jeremy has ever dressed at any premier and you are just like: yea that makes sense.
so why are tech people fucking nuts
it clearly isnt for some delusional romcom reason
is it just a weird bubble? like overly compressed really gross soundbite philosophy? so you can tweet pithy shit for the twitter championships? your oh so rational Very Deeply Unique What A His Own Man He Is take to explain in some detached clinical way that for this reason, your very big brain casual reason, only plebs think sam altman should be "gulag'd"
everyone else missed it, cos too stupid, but this one guy, nailed it
he can tweet search in three years and retweet when sam scores a win and everyone will marvel at the oracle
so ahead of his time
what a visionary
oh please
in case you were wondering i did read a series of tweets today to this affect about sam and the gulag
and my eyes almost rolled out of my head like marbles
dude just huffing his own gas
as The Very Most Rational Man X Has Ever Seen
fucking vile
not hot
the most unhot series of tweets ever
who do we imagine that dude is writing tweets for? himself? the admiration of other men in his imagined cohort? a young impressionable girl who would feel comforted by this big brain world view?
cos no young girl rn thinks it is hot to defend sam
all young girls actually care about imminent climate collapse and are divesting from people who dont seem to give a flying fuck or worse, launder perpetrators accelerating it
young: 18-26 years old
so maybe not a young girl, maybe he was imagining a crone lol
a maven his age, disaffected, in tech, a not like other girls girl woman. they can wander bookstores. they can sneer at what idiots take off the shelves. they can lament the fall of, not rome, too passé, Carthage actually
upending expectations
~that~ smart
do you even count as a person if you don't have a dogearred copy of Gustave Flaubert's 1862 historical novel Salammbô on your nightstand?