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I agree. I think the IWW would be a good example of an org that fulfills all of the steps the post talks about.

Why...?

It's not trying to discourage you, it's an honest criticism and a lot to be gleamed from if you didn't already consider the points.

God, these fucking idiots in the comment section of that post.

"How does it feel to collapse society?"

"I wonder if programmers were asked that in the early days of the computer."

or

"How does it feel to work on AI-powered machine gun drones?"

"I wonder if gunsmiths were asked similar things in the early days of the lever-rifle."

Yeah, because a computer certainly is the same thing as a water-guzzling LLM that rips other peoples work and art while regurgitating it with massive hallucinations. A lot of these people don't and likely never will understand that a lot of technology is created to serve the will of capital's effect on structuring society and if not in the will of that but rather directly affected by the mode of production we exist in. Completely misses the point and wonders why each development is consistent with more lay-offs, more extraction, more profit.

"The current generation of students are crippling their futures by using the ChatGPT Gemini Slopbots to do their work" (Paraphrasing that one)

At least this one has a mostly reasonable reply. Educational systems obviously exist outside of technological impacts on society. It's the kids. /s

Do you post any of your writings/work on social media?

Understandable if not; but am curious!

JMG I have no idea about. His political leanings don't shine through at all in that all of his takes seem completely materialist. I don't think he's a Marxist, but I doubt he's a reactionary in any way. Perhaps apathetic/apolitical.

Yeah that's the kind of vibe I got from Isaac, right-wing libertarian albeit a more rational one than 99% of them. He seems like the type that would be open to dialogue about those things and perhaps changing his mind if you had a conversation with him.

I might be looking to deeply into it after all, but anyone using the term "thugs" always gets a little bit of a raising eyebrow from me, I dunno. Where did you hear the Trump supporter thing? Curious if I could find anything else he said; I believe ya though.

Now you gotta search for pink dye..

He's really good! No reactionary bullshit either, which was relieving for me. Love some JMG

Speaking of which, is there anything on Isaac Arthur? Sometimes, his "wording" gets me a little suspicious on his leanings/beliefs. He uses "thugs" as an unironic term for genocidal aliens in one of his more recent videos.

We have only ourselves really to go off of, but I'm not quite sure that they wouldn't find us particularly interesting. We catalogue all life on Earth; why wouldn't a civilization whom used science and discovery to get to the stars, which likely had a biological catalogue system of it's own in the history of it's scientific development, not be interested in exploring new life? To see what "filters" they might have missed?

Could dye one!

Alien AI and Von Neumann Data Collector by Joseph Michael Godier goes a bit into this.