@sunnyright If it’s affected by laws it’s political, that’s virtually everything in a democracy where the rule of law is supreme. So yeah, TV, movies, sports, all political. Every product, service, form of entertainment, is political.
@sondraa After sitting with it for a few months I think it’s one of the great romances of all time.
It’s almost like a reverse look at retroactive jealousy, judging someone’s past not for past loves but past lonerism. But those two crazy kids made it work still.
Excuse my ignorance. Are there any concrete, spelled-out scenarios for AI-induced human extinction outside those discussed in Yudkowsky and Soares’ book?
Where? What were the scenarios?
(not enough in itself to say machines will get smarter than us; that’s a background assumption but not a concrete scenario)
It's here! Gil Durán's "The Nerd Reich" lands at a moment when the thesis it names, Silicon Valley fascism, has already left the page and entered planning law.
Free zones are the exit strategy. Freeports, SEZs, Investment Zones, AI Growth Zones: these aren't administrative tweaks; they're the mechanism by which the operators who can't win an election instead win a jurisdiction.
Ringfenced tax, disapplied planning, private governance carved out of democratic reach, all sold as "growth."
The zone doesn't need the state's permission once it has the state's land.
Millionaires and billionaires mostly stay quiet because the zone model doesn't threaten their class, it protects it. Every enclosure built this decade has been co-designed with capital, not imposed on it.
Silence isn't neutrality, it's participation.
The Network State philosophy makes explicit what the zones do quietly: exit rather than reform, sovereignty as a product you purchase, citizenship as a subscription.
If this is true, OpenAI seems to be violating one of the few redlines that exist in the AI industry.
Absolutely do not train your models like this - what is going on??