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c1357bab | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 The Wide Angle: Understanding TESCREAL — the Weird Ideologies Behind Silicon Valley’s Rightward Turn

https://washingtonspectator.org/understanding-tescreal-silicon-valleys-rightward-turn/

thanks to @6dd55ceb
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c1357bab | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @6dd55ceb 

'we should also harness far-away planetary surfaces inhospitable to biologic life to build giant server “farms” from hypothetical materials like “computronium” — a kind of “programmable matter” that could host vast pools of mechanical Einsteins that could lead to the next big breakthroughs for intelligent life.'

mm-kay
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c1357bab | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @6dd55ceb As for this: "Effective Altruism aims to reframe philanthropy in terms of both efficiency and ultimate outcomes. Rather, say, than giving a blanket to the freezing person right in front of you, it might make more sense to devise systems to insure specific people get different resources to maximize their long-term chance of impacting the world." -- it's just another form of trickle-down theory.