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The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction
If there is a coherent philosophy of the alt-right intellectual vanguard (I’d call it the unintelligentsia) supporting Donald Trump, it is the Dark Enlightenment, a term we will probably hear more in the years to come.
In the same way to “get” Reagan, you had to know Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman, the same applies here. And evidently Friedman’s grandaughter is involved.
An extreme libertarian point of view I bet you never thought of… and going by the bizarre internal logic, reading this risks virtual eternal damnation.
The anarchistic tentacles go all the way to Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk.
Scientology meets Lovecraft meets Rosicrucianism meets Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero on a bad trip meets Alex Jones in his party years.
The scary thing is, a couple of these true believers advise Sith Lord Steve Bannon, who advises our president, the top of the food chain of ideas. So in a way, in this particular dark timeline, Cyber Cthulhu is our ultimate master.
How’s this for a TL;DR:
“What appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy’s resources.”
Yeah.
