On Saturday 14 March @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com will discuss their forthcoming book 'Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed' at @arminiusdebat.bsky.social.
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I'm embarking on a little Europe tour with @quinnslobodian.com to talk about our new book Muskism over the next couple of weeks.
We'll be doing events in Berlin, Zurich, Vienna, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and London. More info below
🆕 Muskism - A Guide for the Perplexed
Join us for the launch of @quinnslobodian.com & @bentarnoff.com's new book: 'Muskism - A Guide for the Perplexed', featuring the authors in conversation with IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & PhD Candidate Iacopo Gronchi.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/dlw2Ddw
Can’t believe this legendary Italo-disco duo are getting back together
MUSKISM by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff THE PERFECT MOMENT by Isaac Butler
Forthcoming books by @quinnslobodian.com @bentarnoff.com and @isaacbutler.bsky.social!
Quote: “Muskism proposes something more like social war, compensating for inequality through a language of violent exclusion and the vilification of outsiders.”
Around the world, states have become dependent on Elon Musk and his infrastructure.
What is Musk’s unprecedented rise a symptom of? And what does it mean for state sovereignty?
We spoke with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com about their new book Muskism.
🔗 verfassungsblog.de/muskism/
This hadn’t gone exactly how they’d like. In December, Bloomberg reported recently, “a senior US defense official posed a hypothetical scenario” to Amodei: What if a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile were hurtling towards the US with only 90 seconds to spare, and Anthropic’s AI were the only way to trigger a missile response to save the country, but the company’s safeguards wouldn’t allow it, the senior official mused in a December phone call. “Call me,” was how Pentagon officials interpreted Amodei’s answer, according to another senior defense official briefed on the discussion, who described being astounded by the billionaire’s response. LOL. Our beautiful generals have many medals and some even have battlefield experience, but I can say with some confidence that they have never engaged with a Rationalist online and are deeply unprepared for what it means to pick a fight with one.
![[Dario Amodei Bane voice] “Oh, you think stupid elaborate hypotheticals are your ally. But you merely adopted elaborate and weirdly specific hypothetical scenarios; I was born in them, molded by them. I didn’t see a normal argument until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING!”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f6yzeddlu7zjqbthmn37yvom/bafkreib7pecf4dbdvggwa5kwnnlvfhp3pzs7nzzdcnltn7ocx2dqeprjha@jpeg)
[Dario Amodei Bane voice] “Oh, you think stupid elaborate hypotheticals are your ally. But you merely adopted elaborate and weirdly specific hypothetical scenarios; I was born in them, molded by them. I didn’t see a normal argument until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING!”
one of the funniest things to keep coming out of the anthropic reporting is that the pentagon was trying to convince amodei by proposing elaborate hypothetical scenarios. buddy do you think an EFFECTIVE ALTRUIST has never considered a bizarrely specific and elaborate hypothetical scenario??
Join us on March 16 at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social !!
What a pleasure to host @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com talking about #Muskism
"He propagates what we call cyborg conservatism."
I spoke with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com for this week’s @verfassungsblog.de editorial about their new book "Muskism" and the fusion of political authority and machine power.
📖 Read the full interview here: verfassungsblog.de/muskism/
Ein Foto von Quinn Slobodian und Ben Tarnhoff mit dem Buchcover und den Eckdaten der Buchpremiere.
Quinn Slobodian und Ben Tarnoff präsentieren ihr neues Buch »Muskismus« in Berlin. Wie fordert Elon Musk die Demokratie heraus? Wie wurde er zu einer Ikone der Rechten? Diese Fragen diskutieren @quinnslobodian.com und @bentarnoff.com mit @czykchick.bsky.social hier: shrk.vg/Buchpremiere-B
Rikap's theory of "intellectual monopoly capitalism" is the most persuasive thing I've found so far on the political economy of big tech
Just finished this book and it's so good. Essential reading for understanding the current iteration of computerized capitalism
Also all-ages DIY music venues in every city in America. We will repair the social fabric one hardcore band at a time
Oh so it does have phd level intelligence
Der edition suhrkamp-Band liegt auf weiß-silbernem Hintergrund.
Wer die Welt verstehen will, die Elon Musk erschafft, muss die Ideologien verstehen, die ihn prägten. @quinnslobodian.com und @bentarnoff.com zeigen, wie Disruption zur Religion wurde, der Mythos vom Tech-Helden entstand – und rechte Meme-Kultur in den Mainstream sickerte: shrk.vg/Muskismus-B
Yeah this is yet another case where there can be no symmetry between "left" and "right" approaches. The political question for the right is, as usual, much easier
In other words, there are political reasons that people may be disinclined to re-examine their assumptions
It makes sense that there's an analytic lag for thinking about AI given the pace of AI developments, but it also seems possible that this lag may not be equally distributed across the political spectrum -- that is, it's longer for "the left," broadly defined
I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!
I was about to ask you about this
Wow
MUSKISM in Berlin!
with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com
Tues, March 10, 14:00, HU Berlin
socializationproject.de/event/muskis...
This is interesting
I wrote something about my friend Asad Haider for the new issue of @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
At the door of history!
Not sure we’ll ever get back to a moment in interviews for this book when @bentarnoff.com summoned Deutscher on Trotsky to describe the world historical turning point when Sven turned Musk away from the door at Berghain.
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