Identitarian Replacement Theory
Anyone strongly motivated by identity is probably easily replaceable by robots/AIs. I could get behind a conspiracy to actually do that.
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This is not a trivial hypothesis. I strongly suspect that the underlying identity factors that stabilize things like racial identity are actually productive capabilities in the form of highly stable and ritualized professions that should be possible to automate more easily
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I have never met someone with an overdeveloped social identity who didn't have a strong streak of John Henry going. The innermost layer of the identity is typically prowess at something GPT-3 could pick up on with the right scaffolding.
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This mini-thread inspired by the ongoing mainstreaming of "white replacement theory" by Carlson et. al. While the underlying organic demographic shifts are real enough, it is unclear to me how you would even design and execute a conspiracy to amplify it beyond basic immigration
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Nothing particularly "white" about this sort of identitarian replacement anxiety. In India there's a similar "Hindu replacement theory" that's been around for decades, fueled by vaguely confused child-bearing arithmetic around 4-wived muslims and "love jihad".
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In general, such theories are *always* favored by local majorities with a history of actually doing what they claim they fear is being done to them (drive out/ghettoize local minorities etc). Kinda projection basically.
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have you seen the recent studies that claim that the top n of the eg christian fb groups in the us are run by troll farms out of … russia? ukraine? lmk if it rings a bell or want me to search out a reference. evidence for this being amenable to conspiracy already
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