{"id":59424,"date":"2023-08-30T12:04:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=58a2b7287dec6285fe68f03b3da04ec0"},"modified":"2023-08-30T12:04:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T16:04:14","slug":"two-years-unmasking-a-well-funded-silicon-valley-apocalypse-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59424","title":{"rendered":"Two years unmasking a well-funded Silicon Valley &#8216;apocalypse cult&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/articles\/before-its-too-late-buddy\/\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: There is, as always, a problem of extremes.  Thinking about long-term ramifications is _generally_ a good thing, but you run into camps of true believers who spend too much time huffing their own farts and get to some weird places.\n\nLong-term: \"Perhaps we should accept some short-term economic contraction in order to head off the effects of increasing climate instability\" - I'm totally on board. \n\nLong-term: \"We should let billions of the poor die horribly to accelerate the possibility that our progeny's progeny might live forever in pleasure domes floating through space\" - Go fuck yourself.\n\nLong-term: \"We should think about sustainable, humane ways to distribute material goods a society in which automation performs most of the actual labor.\" - Yup, that's a thing to think about before it becomes any more of a problem.\n\nLong-term: \"BRO DID YOU SEE TERMINATOR AND THE MATRIX? OUR SHITTY CHATTERBOTS ARE TOTALLY ON THE CUSP OF AGI AND WILL KILL US ALL!1!\" - no. touch grass.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=37324142\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59424\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}