So tldr on "supremacy" thing: yarvin backchannel-baited aaronson into overreacting to some aspirational overreach by a band of the awokened ones, thereby turning it into actual overreach. These people all deserve each other
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And it's going to happen in China first, complete with a neo-cyberneticist governing ideology and the sensory-actuatory apparatus of a muscular surveillance state
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Near-future sci-fi idea for somebody with a masochistic deathwish: a band of blockchain-coordinated BronzeAge transhumanist types carrying urbit-powered personal computing packs in their exoskeletons taking on China-as-AGI with a cybernetic-machine-learning -panopticon presence
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Gonna see the star wars movie this afternoon, and it cracks me up that the coding of the signifiers in the latest trilogy is almost exactly backwards, makes the viewing campy as hell
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Ann Leckie may have already written something like the book I'm thinking of :Dhttps://twitter.com/zem42/status/1208477850652725253 …
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Ancillary Supremacy is basically the Fukuyama Last Man thesis. A big AI-type deep state staffed by daughters who kinda rule it. Like how in anthills the queen is actually the slave of the "daughters" in genetic terms.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1208459177607102464 …
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