Re: <nettime> At Doge, AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism

[Stefan Heidenreich via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

> Perhaps there's a step before “AI is God” that we need to keep a close eye
> on: it's “anti-AI is the devil.”

wasn't that what Roko's Basilisk was about? And the other ste before God 
is eugenics, as described in Gebru's TESCREAL paper.

 This equivalence should get a lot of
> traction in those in power, be they populist, techno-accelerationist,
> or/and Christians.

We seem to have to deal with bundles of formerly conclifting positions.

Trump: tech-accels + Christian + reactionary + pragmatic dealmakers

Dem: progressive + NeoCon + Military complex + aggressive hegemonialists

Euro: Green + progressive + repressive + non-diplomat + war obsessed

The only position all of them seem to share, is their suport for the 
nationalist/racist genocide in the Orient. Which teaches the rest of the 
world a dire lesson on 'Western Values'.

The overall background seems to be a desperate fight of Western 
oligarchies to maintain their global financial hegemony. That's the main 
goal for all of them: Trump and Biden and the Eurocrats. As Rosa 
Luxemburg pointed out, the capitalist financial Ponzi-scheme requires 
constant expansion, think of NATO-expansion and Anti-China policies.

However, from a European, and particularly German, perspective, Trump 
appears, for now, much less dangerous than the previous 
NeoCons/Democrats. DOGE goes way too far, but the dismantling of the 
Deep state / propaganda apparatus has some positive elements to it.

In Europe, the most dangerous development is the drive towards 
miliarization, that has been agreed throughout the centrist spectrum. 
We're back in the 30s. One can only hope, that Trump and his diplomats 
manage to put an end to the fantasies of Eurocrat warmongers.

Sadly, much of the academic scene goes all in for the most violent and 
aggressive politics - much more than the rest of the population. Very 
many people remain sceptic and are therefore being denigrated as 
'populist'. In that respect, one can only hope that the 'populist' 
population succeeds in resisting the violent 'elites'.

S


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