No earthly force can withstand human greed
Bernie Sanders ratcheted up his AI safety campaign this week by again calling on Congress to regulate the technology. He pointed to polling suggesting that 81% of Americans believed their politicians should take action.
The independent senator for Vermont said: “We can’t allow a handful of greedy people to play God and determine the future of humanity – our economy, environment, democracy, privacy and more – without public input.”
Ideology is the sublime hustle. The use-value of ideology is as a tool for exploitation - the ideologue uses ideology to con you into letting him put his egoism above yours, in the name of altruism, morality, and the "general interest."
Our winning back in a positive connotation of a word like "greed" or "selfishness" - the central, universal, and mutually agreed upon prejoratives of the two extreme representations of modern capitalism, private capitalist and state capitalist ideology, which try to confine the totality of possible opposition within the universe bounded by their polar pseudo-opposition - is such an act because it locates precisely the point of their essential unity, a point of departure for a revolutionary movement which, by breaking away there, simultaneously breaks with both.
Narrow greed will turn against itself. No more powerful weapon against greed could possibly be found than greed itself. There could be no more formidable tool for transforming narrow selfishness than this selfishness itself.
The positive conception of egoism, the perspective of cryptoanarchist egoism, is the very heart and unity of our theoretical and practical coherence. This perspective is the essence of what separates us from both the Borgish left and the Nazbol right. We wont allow its fundamental importance to be obscured, or ourselves to be conscripted for either the statist right or the statist left.
WE MEAN IT MA-AAAN!
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