The massive progressive censorship push only lasted a decade, but you already forgot what it’s like for people to be generally aligned with giving others the benefit of doubt, trusting their own judgement and allowing diversity of opinions, instead of blindly following media coordinated smear campaigns directing them to divert their eyes and ears from any dissenting actors. Grokipedia’s articles on specifically Wikipedia’s locked down articles for the political events and scientific debates that became culture war battlegrounds is a great example of what an actually sober, neutral coverage would look like; and this includes one where Nick is allowed to go around and say what he believes with others forced to contend and debate it, considering millions of people agree with his views, and they’re less and less afraid to say it. Vibe shift.
What I’d like any safety advocate to answer is how they contend with the fact all safety regulations limiting efficiency on exclusively the western hemisphere’s AI industry would only directly contribute to risk given every regulation hampering US/EU industry is a competitive advantage for unregulated, full accelerationist China, whose industry sees alignment as a baizuo joke and poses the greatest threat of producing unaligned AGI. I believe you guys refer to this as an “own goal”
Miya spoke of this. Time moves in both directions, you can influence the past with action today. Those who study for a test after taking it score higher than those who don’t. Karma is real.
When I’m quote tweeting it’s never meant to be responding to someone specifically but sermons using the comment as a foil, and when I sermon, it’s usually not for the active contemporary timeline but to the archivists, researchers, academics and archaeologists who will inevitably be assigned to piece together the source theory and trajectory of our collective ascent years from now. Everything happening here today is the history of this decade, and this decade is the history of the century.
The thing is this is just art still committed to the dealer-critic-gallery model that defines the contemporary art world, which in the last 2 decades got aggressively optimized to the point of being a purely cynical pseudo-art financial complex, and merged entirely with the MFA university pipeline, critics killed and replaced fully with planted press, no pressure on artists to actually do engaging art, rather than just produce brand work following their agent’s guidance with just enough pretense of depth that can be pitched to give plausibility to the paid praise secured to prop up a market between the dealer and gallerist. That’s why it feels so empty and dead, because it is; and that’s why the new art is not art to any insider, because art is just whatever can be productized in the institutional complex known as “the art world”, and the new net art is not just a rabid guerrilla outsider, but invisible to their own incentive matrix— they don’t care at all about pioneering art itself, this was a job for the few rare independent critics, who have all been starved to death after 15 years of only dead art.
We have pioneered an entirely new avant garde with avant NFT, achieving entire new modes of art taking both finance and network art to scales previously impossible; “blockchain art” has not done anything of any remotely similar note. Temporary prestige is assigned to the latter only because it’s restricted itself to maintaining the mores and limitations of presentation in legible institutional form— this is not why they fail to approach an avant garde, but it is an obvious symptom of that failure— but history will not care about small fry critics and dealers glazing their empty niche, especially not when the avant garde standing next to you has exploded open the study of both finance & network, the two conditions that will define this century— as it goes: “google me next century retard”. If you don’t agree, debate me, end the art media embargo on Fang, cover the thesis, cover what is clearly been the most impactful, influential movement in american art in the last 5 years, give my longposting interview in an actual outlet—not some throwaway twitter space or podcast— so all the hack artists can finally face the fact a real art has come back, and all the real young artists can see where it’s come to be and saved before they’re lost to cynicism of the corrupt art world, pressure to them to defend themselves, they’ll lose in every situation they can’t escape by pretending not to see it.
Crypto trenchers promoting bags are all playing chicken games— “LFG, bullish, to the moon, diamond hands, wagmi” working their bags means lying expressing false belief to convince the other guys in the room how committed you are, everyone collectively gaslighting each other in the other’s commitment trying to pump the price up until they defect and exit: it’s all a big game of chicken, and everything they have to say about their bags is chickenshit. No one believes in their rugcore NFT’s, their roadmap shitcoins, the yearly new “ETH killer”, their VC chains; the only thing they believe in is if they feed you chickenshit lies about believing in the dogshit, it might keep you in just long enough for them to get out over your head— and then right onto the next one, winner winner chicken dinner. “Degen” remiliocore pumpfun style memecoins are actually much more honest than the coins with “narrative” by being entirely transparently they’re just hypergambling memes.
Trying to treat transgenders like wholesome reddit gay marriage chungus was an idiotic hill for the left to die on, but they will continue on as radical transhuman body mod collective fetishization subculture, only the first of many more self-organizing memetic gooner viruses to come; this was an early warning sign of the social pandemics that will heavily characterize post-Wired reality, especially as we enter into the age of live deepfaking and ever-present AR/VR—much like COVID was only the first widely spread engineered virus pandemic. Why would it be the last? More and more and more will follow.
I use semicolons for a greater pause and more structured phrase separation than the comma especially when operating a run-on form—I use the run-on because it’s hypnotic, I use repetition for the same reason; and it helps deliver my dense battery of points in short form—and em-dashes for an aside or counter. Both to both help legibility but also to structure the rhythm of the post to better meet natural speaking cadence (parentheteses and colons are avoided because: they don’t have a clear reading rhythm as they’re very much non-literary punctuation).
Everyone naturally projects their own intelligence—and their empathy & ethical levels—onto everyone else, and everyone also stubbornly assumes they understand everything and everyone, so people are very good at running on miscommunication with neither party realizing they’re entirely speaking past each other; it requires conscious measured awareness to remember as a reasonably intelligent person how dumb the average person actually is, and as any actually intelligent person, that most people cannot functionally understand you unless you make a conscious attempt to slow down and ELI5; in most conversations you thought they did, if you ask them to repeat back what you just said, they’d fail, try it. I think most of the social dysfunction seen as a correlation in the extreme IQ ranges is due to oppressive loneliness as a result of having no one to communicate with if not lucky enough to be raised in elite circles, and a false populist sociology that buries the reality of the IQ communication barrier, making the simple facts of their suffering illegible.
