The article doesn’t mention SSC directly, but I think it’s pretty obvious where this guy is getting his ideas
“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen.
10/10, no notes
Him being into idea guys explains a lot.
I’m here from !all but decided to read the article. This man is crazy af and cringe af.
The Grays’ shirts would feature “Bitcoin or Elon or other kinds of logos … Y Combinator is a good one for the city of San Francisco in particular.” Grays would also receive special ID cards providing access to exclusive, Gray-controlled sectors of the city. In addition, the Grays would make an alliance with the police department, funding weekly “policeman’s banquets” to win them over.
What if the Technocracy Movement fucked NASCAR
What if Nazis but the uniforms are Gildan instead of Hugo Boss
What if fascists were stopped with atomic wedgies instead of atomic bombs
“Reds should be welcomed there, and people should wear their tribal colors,” said Srinivasan, who compared his color-coded apartheid system to the Bloods vs. Crips gang rivalry. “No Blues should be welcomed there.”
Balaji goes on—and on. The Grays will rename city streets after tech figures and erect public monuments to memorialize the alleged horrors of progressive Democratic governance. Corporate logos and signs will fill the skyline to signify Gray dominance of the city. “Ethnically cleanse,” he said at one point, summing up his idea for a city purged of Blues (this, he says, will prevent Blues from ethnically cleansing the Grays first).
got it, Balaji’s future is a lot like if the classic dystopian game Syndicate was written by a 6 year old. but something tells me this crayola Nazi shit mostly exists to make Tan’s equally monstrous and insane plans look reasonable by comparison, so Tan can continue to pay journalists to call him a moderate Democrat and shift the Overton window as far right as he can.
Ah yes, the Bloods and the Crips. Because those two gangs are well known for peacefully coexisting (?!?!?!?)
Actually there was a truce for a while. (Still is?)
Yeah, but there was a lot of blood under the bridge before they could make a truce. But I’d never heard of the truce, that’s beautiful. ETA: sadly it seems the truce didn’t hold more than 10 years, which is still pretty good. The original Israel-Egypt treaty it was based on seems to have held for about 4 years
no no, this is the bloods and the weird nerds with fucked vibes they keep around because ???
Unadulterated baby-brain hitler nonsense
So allI have to do to “fit in” is rob a dude of his shirt at gunpoint? Let’s see how this plays out…
not true! you also have to take his ID, hidden where you’d never look for it (right next to the cash in his wallet you’re already taking)
You don’t understand, the Gray Tribe’s unique connection with the police, in conjunction with the crime-prevention drones developed by Anduril, will entirely eliminate crime like mugging. There will only be Grays hunting Blues for sport.
Identity theft it is.
Though even with all their toys I also significantly doubt their ability to actually eliminate crimes like mugging, tbh.
You have no faith in the power of AI, typical Blue attitude.
“A huge win would be a Gray Pride parade with 50,000 Grays,” said Srinivasan.
How many farts do I need to huff before I am able to say this with a straight face?
One thing I never got, even if I understand lot of things is the obsession with Gay Pride. So many things make sense from the techbro/tech nerd/technofascist/reactionary etc mindsets, but that so many of them are obsessed with Gay Pride just doesn’t seem to make sense to me.
E: Don’t get me wrong, I can make up reasons and make them fit into some ideological framework, but they always feel like rationalizations/excuses to me, and not the real issue.
I have written about Balaji’s amazing brain previously. Wait till you get to the PiTato. He’s one of the VCs who was super scared by GPT-3, I think because you could replace his twitter with an LLM and the quality would go up.
I mean yes this is all very off the rails fascist but I can do better.
- bribe the government for nuclear bombs and detonate them in volcanoes to trigger The Big One and separate the bay area from america
- Install high powered laser to roof of salesforce that sweeps the bay
- clone elon musk
I have plenty more where that came from. Money please, m4s a8n
I initially deleted this because these ideas aren’t really that fascist, so I was gonna take a second pass. Then I remembered that thinking of fascist ideas makes me feel awful so here we are.
conveniently all information needed to make american-pattern nukes already is in california (LLNL and UCLA)
with all their finesse techfash trying to get CNWDI would definitely cause a considerable incident
man its not even good sci-fi
