So I'm reading basically:

• yes draft

• yes eugenics

• yes war

• yes religion

• no free anything

• no social services

• no shaming rich people

• no cultural humility

Also, the definition of "peace" in there is suspect

National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

You first, Alex. I’m sure the military could use your help on the front lines in Iran. Go capture Kharg island.

Does every fucknut capitalist in Silicon Valley need to publish his own fascist/futurist manifesto? We get it, it's already been written a century ago. Just link to it and save everyone the trouble:

9. We want to glorify war — the only cure for the world — militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for woman.
10. We want to demolish museums and libraries, fight morality, feminism and all opportunist and utilitarian cowardice.

There. No need to buy Alex Krap's book.

So, a Theil manifesto.

ETA: I read it again. It’s like a treatise for a cult leader.

In headlines today: War company likes corporate fascism, news at 11.

Imagine being so desperate for racism to be socially acceptable that you're willing to advocate for a multicultural version of it.

I guess that's progress.

Full disclosure: this is a straight up straw man, because I don’t want to pay for the book to find out how they actually expand on this.

Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

I wonder where they’d place various Middle Eastern/North African cultures. By that metric, they’ve created wonders and made uncountable advances for humanity. And yet, I suspect the authors somehow land on European, five eyes parties, India, and East Asian cultures as the most advanced.

Let's be clear to all billionaires and their sycophantic accolades. You cannot hide from the masses. Your islands, your bunkers, your space stations. None of it matters. Wherever you are, we have already found you, we have already eaten your flesh, we have already ensured your genetic line does not get to survive. Fuck you and yours forever.

These people need to all be

We already have answers for many of the things he's trying to address, but they involve taxing the rich and using that money to support and educate the masses.

It's almost like there's an ultieror motive behind his desire to improve things for us dumb poor folks...

why can't this piece of shit stop behaving like a badly written villain? holy social ineptitude

The Kanye West of "AI".

Alex Karp is a freaking tweeker nut job. Just watch him in an interview. He should be institutionalized.

We need to build an Arkham Asylum

Downvote me if you want, but some of their points actually made sense to me. For example:

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

In a vacuum / without any additional context, they are right. Society - in general - has grown rather polarised IMO.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

This one is funny. As if we are in a political environment where the public overreacts to any minor scandal, instead of one where every line gets crossed and somehow it isn't far enough. What kind of pretend reality is this person living in?

This post had me in a bad mood all day, so I spent some time trying to understand who this guy is, since he's essentially being paid to spy on all of us now and has the ear of many, many elected officials.

This post is a synopsis of his book, which is a call for post-liberal, pro-American-power, anti-decadence, and defense-tech nationalism. Not exactly MAGA, not exactly neocon, and not exactly centrist Democrat, but basically saying: “the republic needs warriors, engineers, and belief.” It's like if you took W40K and shrunk it down to a global scale.

You will be drafted... and like it!

National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

And even if you are not, don't worry, it will come visit you at home.

Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime.

This AI is pro-religion... so I guess any criticism, of let's say the Pope, will become illegal?

The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted.

These points sure are pro billionaire... weird

When you use AI to write a book and it gaslights you into believing its good

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

Go down to your local recruiters office, asshole. Sign the fuck up and serve a tour before having an opinion on the matter of what everyone else should do. You'll happily volunteer us and our children for the shredder of your AI powered warfare, and act like it is a duty "we" all share, while doing nothing but profiteering in the process. Don't pretend like you'll put your own life at risk, dick, we know better.

Deranged lunatic that has never touched grass

For all the bluster about the US taking down fascism in World War II, it is with ghastly irony that you have these figures within US society, like Karp and Zamiska, who out right advocate for basically racism and fascism. They simply couch their recycled old bigotry into the vague, covert lingo of the modern post-civil rights America.

But, they project what they want in society. They want less regulation upon themselves, they want more military contracts with the US government, they want the public to give more credibility to the power of their surveillance software, they want the draft so their software can go far and wide, and they want the ability to pay people less and to ask them to work more.

Then they go on to make some obligatory comment about how America has brought such peace and prosperity. And, somewhat tellingly, they wax nostalgia for fascist Germany and Japan. They just don't say it in so few words. When the US SCOTUS declared that money can translate into political power, these unqualified persons are the symptoms.

I keep asking what the ASEAN members are thinking when they see this garbage while they're days away from running out of gas and diesel.

Some of the points don't sound bad, in and of themselves. But in this context just come off as dripping in bad faith

well, I mean

gestures at literally everything about them

What utter pieces of shit. The world needs a million more Luigi’s to solve this problem.

What a bunch of garbage words. It's sheer techno-fascism through and through. Anyone truly believing and espousing such ideals needs to have their head in a basket.

I swear to fuck, it used to be that I had my agreements and differences with both parties, but now it's like there is a huge group of people who simply have every single thing wrong.

However, were I writing a dystopian cyberpunk book, this would be some great world building.

For real Karp and Thiel are like cracked out pedophiles (Thiel was all over the Epstein files) that Batman would have thrown in Arkham Asylum.

"Country run by mentally-ill fascist corporate dictatorship, continues to display its mental illness."

Oh yeah, this guy definitely doesn't have AI Psychosis. He's is for sure a well rounded individual who regularly talks to people.

"The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal,”

Then they go on to list a bunch of anti-democratic suggestions. They also defend billionaires while criticizing "elites." It's less disinformation and more incoherent ramblings of wealthy, one-trick ponies trapped in an echo chamber of yes men.

Thiel and Karp are both mentally ill psychopaths. Thiel is a pedo. Dude is all over the Epstein files