In another interview, Billy Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins points out that Pop Music is far more Satanic than Rock Music because it pretends to be something that it's not and because so many singers flirt with the occult
He also says that the Freemasons tried to recruit him
@mohammad_rona Your name is Mohammad. Of course this isn’t “your Denmark”. You’re not Danish. But please keep antagonising the Danish, it will only speed up your remigration.
I don’t know who needs to keep hearing this, but…
AI is not going to shorten your work hours
The money printer can erase the productivity gains of AI with the flick of a wrist
The money printer is what sets your work hours, not productivity
We will NEVER benefit from AI’s deflation without a hard money standard
@SanaELedene Still all about you? Justice must be served for Justice, not for you. We already have the suspicion. We know the world was turned upside down in the early 1900s. We will return it
Message to people in Washington:
You have less time than you think.
You need to assemble a group that includes the lab leaders and the brightest minds in economics & finance and pencil out how you are going to incentivize American corporations to adopt AI quickly while simultaneously diffusing the benefits of the ensuing automation to impacted workers.
You cannot be reactionary here. The narrative will get away from you.
You need to be game theorying out how you can maximize benefit to American workers while pushing as much pain as possible to foreign workers within American and multi-nationals.
You need to be talking seriously about gatekeeping frontier access by industry and geography. Ditto for energy and compute access.
There is a delicate balance of finance, tech and geopol and you have one shot to get it right.
Look around the room and ask “who amongst us was skeptical about AI timelines and who was earliest in identifying its trajectory” … if you don’t have at least a couple maxis in the room you’ve already failed.
You. Don’t. Have. Much. Time.
I don't think people really understand the fight between Paul Graham and Palmer Luckey which played out this week. To the general public, from a casual perspective, it seemed like two rich guys getting in a heated, impulsive debate on Twitter, dragging out for days.
It's not.
Paul is worth ~$2.5 billion. Palmer is worth ~$5 billion. Nothing these guys do is impulsive. They've been sitting on this for years. They were arguing in private for months, maybe years, before Palmer decided this week was the correct window of opportunity to make a public attack.
Paul Graham is one of the intellectual fulcrum points of Silicon Valley. He funds everyone. He sets the tone. He shapes the agenda. Entry-level professionals mimic his style, his worldview, his mannerisms, the way Paul talks. Everyone parrots his beliefs and policies and essays, as chameleon strivers who are trying to get ahead and climb the social ladder.
All of Silicon Valley revolves around a handful of key figures, and Paul Graham was (perceived as) one of the intellectual titans who the entire industry orbited as sycophants.
Palmer challenged all that.
Paul is an elite, Palmer is an elite, and Palmer Luckey chose to publicly challenge the status quo; the elite consensus; the perceived legitimacy of incumbent elits and their institutions.
And he did this for a reason: Palmer is aiming to take the role of Paul Graham, of being the new intellectual godfather of Silicon Valley, based around a new set of ideas: reindustrialization, patriotism, protectionism... rather than America as a deracinated cosmopolitan economic zone to be strip-mined by Third World foreigners.
It's much bigger than a Twitter argument. Palmer was publicly demonstrating that the Emperor had no clothes, and that he was strong enough to MOG Paul Graham and get away with it, while other Silicon Valley tech workers would be terrified of making an enemy who could suffocate future business ventures and block potential funding.
Palmer Luckey is the face of a new military-industrialist consensus which is seeking to hire American workers for American jobs, to build factories and weapons at home, to remilitarize and reindustrialize, to get away from asset inflation and FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) as a sterile, parasitic rent-seeking economic system.
That's the subtext for all of this. It's a public signal of a rising counterelite challenging a stagnant, ossified status quo which can no longer justify or defend their own claim to power.
Nothing more American than a good old-fashioned argument about Hindu and Muslim
nationalism between Rashida Tlaib and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat.
🚨NEWS: A shocking report has revealed that there was more net immigration to the UK between the years 2021-2024 than there was between 1000 BC and 2007
The UK has experienced more net immigration in 3 years than it did in 3000 years