They will come for you, they will come for your friends, they will come for your colleagues, they will come for your spouse, they will come for your child/grandchild, they will come for your boss and your institutions and universities and science bodies and oversight bodies and capital and your parties and your governments. They will tell astounding amounts of lies and will hide a lot from you and be good at it. And they will have quite a lot of their lies in the media and in research and consultants and bodies, to back them up when you attempt to check out their lies. They are also destroying search engines and the tools we use, moulding them to their needs, as well as the broader information landscape. Media, research, and science are not completely lost globally yet and I am grateful. But they are in the process of trying very hard on that. They are extremely active right now, globally, and going HARD right now. They will be friendly, seem professional at first, and sound knowledgeable and sound like good people you should listen to. Then, at some point, they might become a little pushy and have a sense of urgency. They will sound like they believe and are serious about what they say. (For some of them, that will be true.) TELL YOUR COLLEAGUES AND YOUR PEERS AND YOUR BOSS WHAT TO BE WATCHING OUT FOR. NOW. ("AI Safety", "human flourishing", "Abundance", "Progress" and more, all effective altruism groups and funding (Coefficient Giving previously Open Philanthropy, 80,000 Hours, Giving What We Can, many more. The movement is global and crazily funded. It has branches and activity and outreach everywhere. These are not 'less is more' people.) Nick Bostrom, Toby Ord, Wil McAskill, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares, Connor Leahy, Geoffrey Hinton, Ray Kurzweil, Max Tegmark, Toby Walsh, there are a bunch more of that ilk. So, so, so many, working within universities, and also a zillion organisations and foundations pushing the false ideas and their purposes. The histories of all of those foundations should be looked at prior to quoting them or their 'experts'. Then hundreds and hundreds of like infuencers, posters, bloggers who launder their agenda into the mainstream. Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Andy Masley, many more, and twenty zillion billion social media accounts everywhere. Dustin Moskovitz/Cari Tuna, Reid Hoffman, the Atlassian guys, Stripe, more. All of big tech, 100%, no exceptions, all of the frontier AI labs, every single one, and very close to all little tech & venture capital. Global.
Read this, spread it, circulate it, copy it, paste it, screenshot it, save it on a hard drive, send it to your officials and your members of government and your local leaders, your media. No matter where in the world you live.
Effective altruism is increasingly described as a cult. But as the movement’s billionaire adherents pour money into D.C., its obsession with
I will try to remember more and update this. If you read the above article fully you'll have some basics of understanding what they do. Then read the First Monday TESCREAL paper also. Then just imagine enormous resources and tonnnns of manpower to do their things via every possible avenue, and in a few different guises and brandings, around the world. They are armed with absurd amounts of money, and other types of... influence or... encouragement, that they can use on people. Who is under your oversight? What are they doing? Oversight bodies, whats happening with them? Anything unusual? Anything in general unusual happening around you, or above you, or below you? Now is the time to think about this topic. And be aware that many things that seem like different separate disparate things, most likely aren't. Look who Max Tegmark funds. That's only one example that was uncovered.
They will not show you anywhere near their full deal while they need your favours, cooperation, attention, or exposure, or while getting into your information sphere or institutions or economy. The fullness of what you should know will be hidden and will be vigorously denied. They lie as often and as smoothly as they breathe, exactly the same as the AI companies and the tech companies and the media-presence people they have. It is a fascist paradigm. This is who they work for. They will currently be platformed in mainstream media. Hardcore, open, 'oldschool nazis' will also. Who at your outlet is doing the final check on content? Who is allowing pitches? Who is doing your socials? Who invited you to an event or conference? What is it really? Do you know EXACTLY what it is and who funds it? You need to know ALL the people and groups and ideas you are on the watch for, and the various ways they will present themselves. They won't show up goin' "Heya! Lying Scheming Polite New-breed Nazi here. 😊" You need to currently ratchet your vigilance to seven thousand percent and you need to look again at who you've approved for things in the last few years, or ESPECIALLY anyone quite recent. You need to be aware that EVERYONE, all of our systems of information and credibility and influence, needed to be in this mode for the last 10, 20 years and wasn't. Now just sort of superimpose that fact and its implications on the environment around you, across the world. The past rules of thumb are not good enough for current times and will not work that well during current times. Their activity and methods have been designed to defeat normal levels/methods of vigilance. This goes for everyone, everywhere, doing everything. Even if you are a very small operation or solo or 'not something they'd target'. You will just be going about your normal business, and then you will find out you have platformed, promoted, or helped eugenicists, racists, genocide apologists, tescrealists, pedophile networks, abuse-riddled cults - the nazis of our new world. The time to get yourself and your WHOLE team, EVERY PERSON, and everyone you know aware of what to watch out for, and to spread "if you see something say something", is now.
What they believe and what they are doing is right there in their books and papers and talks. Who their associates and fellow travelers are is very relevant too.
We will not forget who you normalise, or who you give assistance to. Nor your failure to accurately cover so many things. It won't be forgotten.
