[project2501a]

Totally agree. And the fact that the author says

> What I want is to change the world, not build a large company and teaming up with OpenAI is the fastest way to bring this to everyone.

do no not make me feel all warm and fuzzy: Yeah, changing the world with Tiel's money. Try joining a union instead.

[vkou]

Change the world into what? Techno-feudalism?

Ever since I was four, I've dreamed of doing my part to bring that about.

[kranke155]

Very happy to see techno feudalism being mentioned here in HN.

Whatever the origins of the term, it now seems clear it’s kind of the direction things are going.

[komali2]

I recently met a guy that goes to these "San Francisco Freedom Club" parties. Check their website, it's basically just a lot of Capitalism Fans and megawealthies getting drunk somewhere fancy in SF. Anyway, he's an ultra-capitalist and we spent a day at a cafe (co-working event) chatting in a conversation that started with him proposing private roads and shot into orbit when he said "Should we be valuing all humans equally?"

Throughout the conversation he speculated on some truly bizarre possible futures, including an oligarchic takeover by billionaires with private armies following the collapse of the USA under Trump. What weirded me out was how oddly specific he got about all the possible futures he was speculating about that all ended with Thiel, Musk, and friends as feudal lords. Either he thinks about it a lot, or he overhears this kind of thing at the ultracapitalist soirées he's been going to.

[kranke155]

It seems quite a reasonable output to the current input we are having. Elon having an army of robots is... well it is what it is. Yet that is the direction we are going.

[tcoff91]

So basically a bunch of rich tech edgelords are just doing blow and trying to bring about the world as depicted in Snow Crash?!

Guess I’ll have to get a Samurai sword soon and pivot to high stakes pizza delivery.

There are a disturbing amount of parallels between Elon and L Bob Rife.

It’s really disturbing that we have oligarchs trying to eagerly create a cyberpunk dystopia.

[trollbridge]

I was really into the idea of kings, knights, castles, princesses etc when I was 4.