> What I want is to change the world, not build a large company and teaming up with OpenAI is the fastest way to bring this to everyone.
do no not make me feel all warm and fuzzy: Yeah, changing the world with Tiel's money. Try joining a union instead.
Ever since I was four, I've dreamed of doing my part to bring that about.
Whatever the origins of the term, it now seems clear it’s kind of the direction things are going.
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.
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.