I love how traditional media dropped the ball so bad that now people seek wisdom from random places like effort.news, whatever the hell that is, or some rando on TikTok. And of course the newer versions are, well…

Aren't Guardian's journalists full time employees? Why is their salary being paid by an outside entity?

Wow, this is a great tool.

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Did you get this from the latest Tim Dillon podcast?

If not it’s funny at least several people are seeing the same pattern emerge.

I have to say u wasn’t a fan on this guy before when he was a Trump shill but lately he’s had some accurate and funny takes.

Did you read the article and the X thread? It is all tied to Anthropic. "Propaganda" is a more accurate description than "statements" when we're talking about paying bribes to religious NGO's for theological framing around AI and as a means for political connections and sway.

"The Future of Life Institute mobilized religious connections to support Anthropic and sway the Trump admin"

Series A Lead: Skype co-founder and Future of Life Institute co-founder/board member Jaan Tallinn personally led Anthropic's $124 million Series A funding round in May 2021 through his philanthropic/investment circles. [1] (https://siliconvalleyinvestclub.com/ar/investors/future-of-l...), [2] (https://dealroom.co/news/145208-anthropics-124m-series-a-cam...)

They're all in bed together.

There is funding for pro-AI as well, but the overwhelming majority of it is being funnelled into the doomer movement. Anthropic in particular is funding the opposite of pro-AI narratives and to promote the idea that AI is going to kill everyone unless it's heavily regulated. They've been trying for regulatory capture since the very beginning.

The Future of Life has funded 30 projects to develop AI safety content since launching a digital media accelerator last year. The application form on the nonprofit's website says it plans to spend $100,000 a month.

Anthropic's perspective is that if the open-weight models and open-source ecosystem is allowed to flourish, they'll lose trillions of dollars. They're desperate to do anything they can to prevent it from happening.

I remember at one of the Black Lives Matter protests seeing someone with a sign like “Tax Cuts for Paid Protesters!”

Let me know if you ever meet someone whose source of wealth was “HackerNews AI Astroturfer”.

> The 1% are mostly religious

I think this assertion needs evidence as it seems more probable to me that the rich are anti-religious. In any country where Christianity is the main religion it is a very unattractive belief for the rich (the "eye of the needle", "root of all evil" and "give all you have to the poor" ethos). Most other religions are suspicious of wealth too (to a Buddhist it is an attachment) In the UK we had a recent prime minister (Tony Blair) who concealed his religious beliefs. In the US JD Vance has been illustrating how difficult it is for a person in power to reconcile that with mainstream religious belief.

Of course you preface all this with the assumption that you are right about reality yourself which is a whole other argument.

Talking "false ideas about life and reality" like there's any way to test religious views with science. Spoiler alert, science explicitly ignores any supernatural effects because a theory where anything can happen is useless for explaining what happens most of the time. Not because it claims they don't exist.

Just say you're an atheist and move on, or say nothing because it's irrelevant to OP and you made a new account just to post this. 90% of people you meet will have zero problems with you being one. This "religion is dumb" thing just plays into stereotypes that all non religious people are annoying Redditors. It's pure self sabotage.

Religion contains delusion, but it also tends to contain centuries of philosophy, and a set of guidelines to living life. Irreligious people tend to keep the delusion part, and throw all the rest away.

Yep, but that's a third rail here -- plenty of otherwise intelligent people drank the kool aid (likely by their parents).

It needs to be understood by all citizens of the United States that there is an active effort to make it into a Christo-Fascist country. The current regime is all in on this.