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So many dubious people with so much power.
The saints of the modern day: Juang, Thiel, Musk, Altman.
Some have better rep than others, but I think the overwhelming consensus is that these guys are bad news.
And yet... they influence governments on mass scale, shaping the policies that trickle down into the lives of ordinary citizens.
It's plain to see that these new-age manipulators have outsize influence on modern economies. Juang, for instance, could cripple the US by restricting chipsets if he really wanted to. NVIDIA is now worth $4 trillion, representing 3.6% of the US GDP. Around the world up to 800 million people use ChatGPT weekly, which is 800 million people that could be subtly brainwashed as ChatGPT redefines the status quo and sets a precedent for a new consensus reality; the powering of AI datacenters has already seen measurable increases in electricity prices that the average citizen bears the brunt of, yet will the fruits of AI be distributed with that same egalitarian moxie?
Musk and Zuckerberg host some of the world's largest social platforms and have the ability to censor those who represent a threat to their agenda. Nobody knows him, but a newly elected Niel Mohan represents YouTube, the main source of information for many. The customer retention model employed by corporations like YouTube ruthlessly addict their users, permanently altering where they direct their attention and in most cases supplying them with the information that shapes their decisions. Children and parents alike become submerged in these algorithms like tar, unable to wrench themselves from the hyper-engineered cycles of addiction with similar neurological influence to hard drugs: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10504808/
How many future Einsteins have been sabotaged through the technological addiction cycle? Can you pin an economic cost on all of the scientific and social progress that has been squandered? Unlike drug dealers however, the propagators of hyper-engineered addiction are not liable for any harm they cause.
Peter Thiel engages in the data collection of citizens through his Palantir; yet the man in charge of mass surveillance frequently endures accusations that he is the Antichrist, alongside voicing anti-democratic elitism.
If crypto tech bros hold such influence over the average citizen, doesn't it threaten the democracy of modern nations? Furthermore if all information is controlled, vetted and selectively broadcast through cultivated algorithms, does it not shape the landscape of political thought open to the masses? At what point do the political beliefs of the average citizen become their own if they have spent their whole life being fed select information from YouTube, X, ChatGPT...?
In my opinion our democratic systems may be under threat due to the vast influence that crypto tech bros have on our daily lives and government. Do you think I am overstating their influence on democracy? Personally I do not trust all of the billionaires like Larry Ellison or Musk influencing public opinion and government. Especially as Musk proclaimed himself as 'Dark MAGA'; this guy could easily be trying to make right-wingers look lame to fuel a secret leftist agenda. Just like this, they could easily push their own political agendas for the left or right wing and unfairly influence the democratic voting process that underpins the electoral system. I am not sure what Trump could do if these guys decided to wage war on the population...
The saints of the modern day: Juang, Thiel, Musk, Altman.
Some have better rep than others, but I think the overwhelming consensus is that these guys are bad news.
And yet... they influence governments on mass scale, shaping the policies that trickle down into the lives of ordinary citizens.
It's plain to see that these new-age manipulators have outsize influence on modern economies. Juang, for instance, could cripple the US by restricting chipsets if he really wanted to. NVIDIA is now worth $4 trillion, representing 3.6% of the US GDP. Around the world up to 800 million people use ChatGPT weekly, which is 800 million people that could be subtly brainwashed as ChatGPT redefines the status quo and sets a precedent for a new consensus reality; the powering of AI datacenters has already seen measurable increases in electricity prices that the average citizen bears the brunt of, yet will the fruits of AI be distributed with that same egalitarian moxie?
Musk and Zuckerberg host some of the world's largest social platforms and have the ability to censor those who represent a threat to their agenda. Nobody knows him, but a newly elected Niel Mohan represents YouTube, the main source of information for many. The customer retention model employed by corporations like YouTube ruthlessly addict their users, permanently altering where they direct their attention and in most cases supplying them with the information that shapes their decisions. Children and parents alike become submerged in these algorithms like tar, unable to wrench themselves from the hyper-engineered cycles of addiction with similar neurological influence to hard drugs: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10504808/
How many future Einsteins have been sabotaged through the technological addiction cycle? Can you pin an economic cost on all of the scientific and social progress that has been squandered? Unlike drug dealers however, the propagators of hyper-engineered addiction are not liable for any harm they cause.
Peter Thiel engages in the data collection of citizens through his Palantir; yet the man in charge of mass surveillance frequently endures accusations that he is the Antichrist, alongside voicing anti-democratic elitism.
If crypto tech bros hold such influence over the average citizen, doesn't it threaten the democracy of modern nations? Furthermore if all information is controlled, vetted and selectively broadcast through cultivated algorithms, does it not shape the landscape of political thought open to the masses? At what point do the political beliefs of the average citizen become their own if they have spent their whole life being fed select information from YouTube, X, ChatGPT...?
In my opinion our democratic systems may be under threat due to the vast influence that crypto tech bros have on our daily lives and government. Do you think I am overstating their influence on democracy? Personally I do not trust all of the billionaires like Larry Ellison or Musk influencing public opinion and government. Especially as Musk proclaimed himself as 'Dark MAGA'; this guy could easily be trying to make right-wingers look lame to fuel a secret leftist agenda. Just like this, they could easily push their own political agendas for the left or right wing and unfairly influence the democratic voting process that underpins the electoral system. I am not sure what Trump could do if these guys decided to wage war on the population...
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