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officerripley<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maxstreaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#maxstreaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hbomax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hbomax</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tv</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#movies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mountainhead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mountainhead</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techlords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techlords</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techbros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbros</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SiliconValley</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/singularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#singularity</a>Just watched Mountainhead on Max/HBOMax. Excellent & for verification of the reality of the thinking, u must read this excellent book by <a href="https://mastodon.social/@adambecker" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@adambecker</a>:

officerripley<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techbros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbros</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techlords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techlords</a> Stupid Quote of the Day:"I don't even know why we study history...[W]hat already happened doesn't really matter...In technology, all that matters is tomorrow." ~~Anthony Levandowski, Waymo cofounder

officerripley<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/read" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#read</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techbros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbros</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techlords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techlords</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SiliconValley</a> Just finished the fantastic book More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity by Adam Becker. An amazing book; you must read it!

officerripley<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#atheism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techlords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techlords</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techbros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbros</a> Lol, the techlords & techbros are always saying they're atheist but have elevated that Singularity & Transhuman crap to cult levels.

officerripley<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#resist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techlords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techlords</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techbros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbros</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a> Today's quote: "To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating." ~~from "The Rise of End Times Fascism" by Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor, theguardian.com (<a href="https://tinyurl.com/yx3satah" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/yx3satah</a>)

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Mark CarriganFrom Parmy Olson’s Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World loc 643:<blockquote>To handle his anxiety, Altman got into meditation, sometimes sitting with his eyes closed and concentrating on just his breath for up to an hour at a time. Over time, he later said, he developed an increasingly diminished sense of self. “One thing I realized through meditation is that there is no self that I can identify with in any way at all,” he told the Art of Accomplishment podcast. “I’ve heard that of a lot of people spending a lot of time thinking about [powerful AI] get to that in a different way too.”</blockquote>To be fair, I’ve <a href="https://www.artofaccomplishment.com/podcast/sam-altman-leading-with-crippling-anxiety-discovering-meditation-and-building-intelligence-with-self-awareness-3" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">read the transcript</a> and he doesn’t describe himself as enlightened. But he does use what I believe are real meditation experiences to construct a public image of himself as spiritually refined: from the talk about “no self”, reports that “I feel incredibly joyful all of the time” through to how you “deeply feel” “nonduality” and distinguishing himself from the strung-out non-enlightened tech bros around him. And yet this man with no self he can be find spends a lot of time and money preparing for doomsday. From loc 653 in the same book: <blockquote>The idea of death seemed to terrify Altman. He was a self-described prepper and spent a great deal of time and money preparing for a catastrophic global event, like a synthetic virus being released into the world or being attacked by AI. “I try not to think about it too much,” he was quoted as telling a group of start-up founders in his New Yorker profile. “But I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.”</blockquote>The description of Altman’s relationship with Paul Graham reminded me of what I’ve read of how Macron cultivated the backing of elderly billionaires in France. The capacity to position yourself as a dutiful discipline to powerful men is a unique skill, even if Paul Graham is younger and less wealthy than Macron’s sponsors. The reality is that, as Olson clearly conveys in an otherwise weirdly hagiographical book, Altman positioned himself at the centre of an innovation network, at exactly the right moment, with increasing returns as his social and financial capital grew. From loc 621:<blockquote>His place at the top of YC meant he was better positioned than many other venture capitalists to win jackpots like that, getting an intimate view on hundreds of companies who’d already been carefully screened, and in the middle of one of the greatest bull market runs in history. Getting pitched by all those start-ups also helped him see into the future.</blockquote>This is why his self-construction is so interesting to me. The obvious parallel is Musk who, as Dave Karpf once put it, possibly constitutes the most dramatic case of survivor bias in human history. If you dimly sense that your wealth and status accrue from the accumulating gains of being at the centre of the right network at the right term (relying in Musk’s case on government contracts and interventions to a degree unparalleled amongst the 21st century class of tech lords) then there’s a psychological and strategic need to construct an image for others (and yourself) as a visionary preoccupied with lofty purposes unlike the banal fixations of the others within your class. <a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/10/19/sam-altman-the-billionaire-prepper-who-believes-he-has-achieved-enlightenment/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://markcarrigan.net/2024/10/19/sam-altman-the-billionaire-prepper-who-believes-he-has-achieved-enlightenment/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/big-tech/" target="_blank">#bigTech</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/billionaires/" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/digital-elites/" target="_blank">#digitalElites</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/elon-musk/" target="_blank">#elonMusk</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/open-ai/" target="_blank">#openAI</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/parmy-olson/" target="_blank">#ParmyOlson</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/sam-altman/" target="_blank">#samAltman</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/supremacy/" target="_blank">#Supremacy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/tech-lords/" target="_blank">#techLords</a>

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