Quinn Slobodian
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708 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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So illegal immigrants, people who we perceive to be somehow in a great replacement theory kind of way, acting as the permanent voting base for the Democratic Party, are kind of offline computer viruses who need to be identified and removed.
So that way of kind of shifting constantly between online and offline thinking is, you know, hopefully pretty foreign to most of us.
But you need to kind of make that turn to understand the way Musk sees things.
And it actually then helps explain why the X.com platform is so important to him, because it is a kind of closed ecosystem in which his way of thinking can be kind of propagated at scale.
And where this is one of my favorite things, looking on that website through the burner account I have that only follows Elon Musk, is that it has this little feature called...
It has a feature called Today's News, and it tells you what apparently today's news is.
Yesterday, you know what today's news was?
There were two items.
One is, Musk questions whether colonialism made Africa poorer.
That was the first headline.
The second headline was Argentine President Javier Millet praises Musk's battle on the woke mind virus.
Oh, my.
That was today's news.
And that's, you know, that's what Musk is going for.
He wants to create a communications ecosystem in which only those most dogmatic kind of Pravda like talking points can be repeated back to him.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, and if you're interfering, you're somehow debris or dross in the system.
No, I mean, 100%.
I mean, we walk you through that argument in the end chapter of the book.
Because one of the more outré parts of that effective altruism, long-termism moment was this thing called the simulation theory, which was proposed by Nick Bostrom, who's someone who Musk blurbed his book, very important in that community, kind of spawned the whole field of AI safety or AI alignment.
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