[komali2]

I recently met a guy that goes to these "San Francisco Freedom Club" parties. Check their website, it's basically just a lot of Capitalism Fans and megawealthies getting drunk somewhere fancy in SF. Anyway, he's an ultra-capitalist and we spent a day at a cafe (co-working event) chatting in a conversation that started with him proposing private roads and shot into orbit when he said "Should we be valuing all humans equally?"

Throughout the conversation he speculated on some truly bizarre possible futures, including an oligarchic takeover by billionaires with private armies following the collapse of the USA under Trump. What weirded me out was how oddly specific he got about all the possible futures he was speculating about that all ended with Thiel, Musk, and friends as feudal lords. Either he thinks about it a lot, or he overhears this kind of thing at the ultracapitalist soirées he's been going to.

[kranke155]

It seems quite a reasonable output to the current input we are having. Elon having an army of robots is... well it is what it is. Yet that is the direction we are going.

[tcoff91]

So basically a bunch of rich tech edgelords are just doing blow and trying to bring about the world as depicted in Snow Crash?!

Guess I’ll have to get a Samurai sword soon and pivot to high stakes pizza delivery.

There are a disturbing amount of parallels between Elon and L Bob Rife.

It’s really disturbing that we have oligarchs trying to eagerly create a cyberpunk dystopia.