Look, I've long had an interest in futurism/transhumanism/extropianism, etc...more as a what-if scenario.

But if these fuckers are going to be the ones determining how it plays out, using their network state bullshit from weird creeps like Curtis Yarvin, Thiel, and the authors of The Sovereign Individual?

Well, they can fuck all the way off. They all strike me as johnny-come-lately bullshit artists with just a fuck-ton of money and only thinking of themselves.

Musk wants to make a backup of himself and move to a new star and recreate the world in his image. The real problem with that is no matter what it will never be him. I doubt its possible in his lifetime. This motherfucker will die with a surprised look on his face.

I was lucky enough to speak to a friend in the environmental space about 10 years ago. I was never a super fan of Musk but I casually muttered something about Teslas being good as electrics.

They interrupted the conversation and made it clear to the group that Musk was more of a bullshit artist than the public were aware and that we was unclear to do any good for the environment at least not reliably.

Then I spoke to someone in tech that clued me into the same perspective. I’d never realised how much of a cult of personality had been built around him until then. Seeing him unfold in this way since then has certainly been “interesting”.

Apart from the particulars of Musk, I think the lesson is to never get involved in a cult of personality.

Problem is they would (will) destroy Earth on exodus so no one could follow.

I am so down for this, Santa.

Back to the 90s, gotcha.

Was better in almost every aspect anyway (YMMV)

Honestly, I think this is one of the big questions of our moment.

How can distinct societies with different technological eco systems co-exist on this planet?

We’ve got extreme examples like monks in monasteries, the Amish, Orthodox Jews etc. But at some point, maybe now, there may be many who’d really like and even at a psychological level “need” to live in a different ecosystem quite different from the wants of “the global market”.

You can try to get a dumb phone or not use AI or whatever. But thinking in terms of hard exclusions and ecosystem health seems to me necessary.

It's going to be a mechanical turk to allow anonymous shell corporations. They'll do bad stuff, blame it on AI, and then everyone else will just shrug and act like there's nothing that can be done.