The only pogroms that have happened in the past year were against muslims, bud. A bunch of racist Israei soccer hooligans disrupting an event in a foreign country, tearing down Palestinian flags, and then getting their asses beat isn't a pogrom.
Just so we’re clear: there’s the kind of e/acc that’s just techno-optimism, and the kind where you want to build the technocapital singularity that will devour Earth. Beff can’t seem to decide which one he is.
Big AI lab eng: BE VERY AFRAID. THIS TECHNOLOGY IS THE SEEDLING FOR ASI.
Customer: Cool is it useful for my workflow?
Big AI lab eng: HOW DARE YOU QUESTION THE POWER OF THIS GOD-LIKE TECHNOLOGY.
Customer: Can it automate even 20% of my workforce?
AI lab eng: THE BASILISK WILL PUNISH YOU IF YOU KEEP ASKING SUCH QUESTIONS
Customer: Ok I'm done. Will check back in 3 models from now.
e/acc seems like it's been too focused on AGI lately.
Should I found a start-up to build massive rapid human intelligence augmentation based on genetic engineering and brain-computer interfaces?
Here we see a far-left extremist making fun of a conservative man for being (allegedly) gender nonconforming.
To these people, the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.
Emile Torres is camouflaging their true motives here. They say their primary concern is environmental, but in other posts, they've made clear that the only thing they care about is minimizing suffering, and they wouldn't care if humanity died out.