Atheist/Transhumanist/Cosmist/Immortalist/Abolotionist/Hedonist. Center-right moderate. Dislikes the Woke Left and Woke Right. #Seinfeld fan. Memes.
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Humans have been running civilization for thousands of years and we still have wars, poverty, corruption and politicians who can barely string together a coherent sentence.
But apparently letting AI with vastly more intelligence run things would be an unacceptable risk.
Sure, let’s stick with the monkeys. 🙈
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One thing I find absolutely fascinating about the anti-AI movement is the apparent belief that technological progress requires their approval.
It doesn’t.
You can refuse to use AI.
You can boycott companies developing it.
You can spend every day posting about how terrible it is.
But none of that changes the fact that millions of people are discovering what they can accomplish with these systems.
Every day, the technology improves.
Every day, more people adopt it.
Every day, things that were previously impossible for an individual become possible.
You can choose not to participate.
But you don’t get to decide that the rest of humanity has to stop progressing with you.
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This is the postliberal right BS I’ve been talking about. Hindus didn’t fly planes into buildings on 9/11. They’ve done nothing to threaten the spirit of 1776. Yet here are the white nationalists using the term conservative ruining our brand. Disgusting!
“Dot heads”… really?
HAPPENING NOW: Absolutely chaotic scene as conservative activists Jake Lang and Thomas Allen storm a Diwali Hindu celebration at the Seattle Center Armory.
They held signs that read, "Deport All Dot Heads" and "Stop Hindu Replacement of Christians."
I just spoke to both men who say they are concerned about American culture being overrun by false idol worshippers and H1-B fraudsters.
Lang and Allen say they will be targeting other locations in the city this weekend.
They have yet to announce details of their plans due to possible retaliation by Antifa and other far-left activists.
Stay tuned.
@JakeLang|@Tommy4Trump420
Cartwright 🦃 🍽️ 🍁 retweeted
One of the fundamental fallacies of populism, which it shares with leftist identity politics, is that who believes a thing is more important than whether that thing is true.
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Low IQ if you're complaining about data centers on an app using data centers
Cartwright 🦃 🍽️ 🍁 retweeted
These far right morons with microphones doubled and tripled down on white nationalism and claimed that they had to do it for electoral reasons. Well not only did they contribute to chasing away minorities, they almost LOST the white vote. Democrats won the largest share of the white vote in decades. White grievance politics doesn’t even appeal to the majority of white people! Fix the economy.
"We mass imported a population from cultures that are diametrically opposed to the United States."
@JohnDoyle, @NickJFreitas, and @AuronMacintyre break down the impact that demographic changes and immigration have on the outcome of elections:
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“Immigrants lost the election for us” is the rightwing “Kamala lost because of racism”
You just prove you’re unfit to govern if your only takeaway from defeat is cope
"We mass imported a population from cultures that are diametrically opposed to the United States."
@JohnDoyle, @NickJFreitas, and @AuronMacintyre break down the impact that demographic changes and immigration have on the outcome of elections:
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Mississippi turning Democrat and Tim Pool says the Republicans need to embrace Nick Fuentes. Explain how that works when the deepest red states in the country are voting for the left.
Cartwright 🦃 🍽️ 🍁 retweeted
Sure, pause technological advancement and go back to the dark ages
This is literally a kill shot to the entire US economy!!
Cartwright 🦃 🍽️ 🍁 retweeted
The GOP and the American Right in general must embrace secularism if it wants to win.
Cartwright 🦃 🍽️ 🍁 retweeted
I want AI to replace politicians.
Think about it.
No donors. No reelection campaign. No ego. No insider trading. Doesn’t need to be liked. Reads every bill before voting on it.
Every time I say this, someone tells me it’s dangerous.
Have you seen the current system?
Cartwright 🦃 🍽️ 🍁 retweeted
LISTEN TO THIS POINT HERE. So many stupid right wing grifters openly trafficked in white nationalist rhetoric and claimed that it was the only way Republicans would win. Well not only did the party lose the minorities they JUST WON two years ago, but you lost young white men too. So what was the point?! All of that garbage didn’t even help you with the people YOU SAID YOU WERE DOING IT FOR. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
Cartwright 🦃 🍽️ 🍁 retweeted
it saddens me to see people becoming increasingly hostile toward ai.
not because the technology is above criticism, but because i think we’re standing at the beginning of something that could make life unimaginably better for billions of people.
Cartwright 🦃 🍽️ 🍁 retweeted
Prediction: The AI progress and data centers will not meaningfully slow down due to the midterms.
The DNC, in power, will face the same incentive structures, special interest groups, lobbyists, and geopolitical realities and quietly keep things moving along.
Yes, there will be some political theater around data centers, but in the grand scheme of things, they will still say that America needs to industrialize and they'll probably frame it like: "Building data centers brings good jobs!" and "Building chip fabs brings good jobs!"
That sort of thing.
It's all about framing.
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A word on this: the anti-Indian racism, at least in Texas, is partially a form of anti-tech/AI sentiment.
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You have to continue to win your coalition in every election. Spending two years alienating key elements of the coalition was the wrong tactic, full stop. They didn’t just blow an election, they blew a generational reshuffling.
As a practitioner of realpolitik, I spent the last two years saying things that were deeply unpopular in the online Right ecosystem, but that I believed were hard, realistic, and practical truths conservatives needed to hear. Chief among them:
Trump built a large and diverse coalition that pulled from the margins, bringing nontraditional Republican voters into a powerful voting bloc.
For Republicans to continue winning, they’d have to continue appealing to and pulling from those margins.
One group we gained ground with was Americans of Indian ancestry, among whom we managed to move from roughly 20% to 33% support. Not ideal, but better than we’d done historically.
Some influencers thought it would be more fun to mock Indian Republicans as “pagan poo people” and entertain fantasies of mass remigration (never going to happen) instead.
That 33% dropped to 16%.
“So what?! We don’t need them,” some had told me.
I disagree.
Politics is not a game where we should pursue the perfect at the cost of the good.
As Bismarck once said, “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable—the art of the next best.”
In politics, we must often contend not with what is best, but with what is next best. Politics is a chess game. You have to be realistic about the material conditions on the board and make decisions based on what is possible, what is attainable, and sometimes what produces the least negative outcome.
I’m not arguing that losing Indian support cost us certain seats, or that online hostility caused that decline. But I think these examples collectively spell trouble.
We need to carefully consider, going forward, whether we want to adopt the difficult but realistic strategies required to win, or whether we want to lose but feel good about our ideals, even as our country becomes a place where they will mean little.
Exhibit A: someone who confuses coalition building with pandering, and measures its success by whether we win a demographic outright.
Reducing your opponent’s margin among a group improves your position across the electorate. You don’t need to win every demographic. You need to assemble a winning coalition.
