Literally more scientific than orthodox neoliberal economics.
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At one point he was just the typical tech oligarch failson who was sort of just quietly awful behind the scenes while collecting accolades for other people's work and getting fluffed up by credulous tech "journalists". He managed to grift some successful contracts using that publicity and his PR team leveraged it into more and more bullshit hype for businesses he owned and he just failed upwards over and over.
Even after he had a midlife crisis and started just doing lots of drugs and showing his whole ass on twitter all day every day he still had all that inertia and machinery of hype and graft behind him to feed him more and more wealth and power despite anything he actually did. He had to actively piss off enough people that that system started clogging and breaking down to even suffer the most mild of consequences. Hopefully it keeps going and everything he had and has falls apart so he can't just go back to a quietly parasitic existence like most other tech oligarchs.
What about Shikanoko's Basilisk, which can be bought over with deer crackers?
Great man theory isn't wrong in that certain people with power and influence didn't have a huge impact, it's wrong because it's just sort of assuming that they're this a priori source of change instead of themselves being a result of change and broader movements. Lenin did great things and had a huge impact, but he came out of the context of a larger movement that preceded him and existed without him rather than simply manifesting fully formed to create that movement the way liberal Great Man "historians" portray it.
i think people will just forget to nuke us.
The Posadas gambit.
The key idea of a space elevator is that it's being held in tension by a counterweight just past the point of a geosynchronous orbit. The problem of course being that even being in tension like that we don't have anything that could support its own weight let alone the capacity to construct and place such a massive structure.
I think that's probably what he heard from some pop-sci ~~article~~ video summarizing actual evolutionary biology, and then he proceeded to misunderstand it in the dumbest possible way and incorporate it into the writhing mass of brainworms animating him.
Company: *actively commits fraud in a very blatant way*
The media: "wow, looks like they're being sneaky little rascals, those scamps!"
The general fevered absurdity of the worldview in them sometimes makes you forget the absolute malignant evil lurking behind it. It's easy to laugh at how weird and cringe they are and lose sight of just how monstrous theocrats are on every level.
If that were applied accurately it does actually describe some subset of fascists, who are so incoherent and built on load-bearing warrior vibes that all they want is to actualize themselves through hurting others and destroying things. There's a long history of the most incoherent fascists adopting the label of nihilist, as well as of outright neo-nazis adopting it to try to smuggle their ideology in under a new label and/or to be able to keep the "N" in the acronym they want without admitting that it stands for "Nazi".
Touch controls are only acceptable when something absolutely needs to cram a large variety of granular controls into as small a space as possible. Anything where its just showing a picture of analogue buttons should just be analogue buttons and dials instead, and anything with the space for it should have a proper control scheme instead.
Smartphones should not exist, they are an abomination and using them to do anything is like pulling teeth. Tablets should be low-powered e-readers or hardened industrial terminals, not this "it's like a shitty computer with the worst controls anyone has ever made" shit.
I'm convinced the hyperfocus on generative ai models somehow iNfRiNgInG upon holy copyright protections was entirely a corporate psyop to begin with, because at the end of the day that line of arguing further enshrines the power of corporate property and gives an easy pivot to whitewashing proprietary corporate "not InFrInGiNg" models.
The closest to ethical that AI gets are open source models that can be run locally, and they're coincidentally the most "infringing" models, while the least ethical ones are the secretive proprietary corporate models being trained on data that's laundered by corporations unilaterally claiming the right to license it for that purpose.
Like what are the biggest problems? Endless mountains of low-grade slop, mostly coming out of corporate hosted models; companies trying to replace workers with dogshit chatbots, which are 100% proprietary corporate services; media companies threatening to eliminate actors using internal proprietary models they claim they have the property rights to train; etc. Not one problem comes from copyright not being expanded to also cover being able to license and restrict how someone looks at a copyrighted thing, and almost every problem comes from huge corporate property holders with most of the rest coming from petty bourgeois grifters.