It read like a C- college sophomore dudebro who read some Ayn Rand and Raspail and Yockey and said "I fucking am John Galt", hit a bong, and got to scribbling their 'manifesto'.
All three of these suggestions are likely true. I’ve never done Ketamine but I’ve heard it can seriously degrade the user’s “quality control” of their ideas, meaning that ideas that they have, or ideas they get from others, that are intellectually subpar appear to be quite brilliant. The dissociation is also helpful for overcoming moral qualms if they were ever present.
Combine that with speed and a insular SV culture steeped in the ideology of Ayn Rand and Nick Land (who likely suffered from amphetamine psychosis) and you get something like this Palantir manifesto.
I would feel sorry for them if they weren’t building skynet.
I can't really, because I read the whole thing and I don't see what you're saying at all. Like not even the worst one could I interpret as anti human. I don't get it.
"21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful."
This is incredibly racist, ending thinking at "well, some types of people just suck, and other types of people are better" without considering the complex and nuanced factors over the course of human history that result with the world we have today.
So you genuinely believe that every culture is exactly equal in value? I don't even see how that's possible to believe. There are cultures where women are subjugated routinely and cultures where gay people are beheaded as a matter of course. Those cultures are not as good as western cultures, sorry. This has nothing to do with "rac[e]" or "types of people".
You just see what you want to see in that paragraph. Without a way to determine 'better' and 'worse' we cannot have a way to determine how our society and culture should develop. That is deeply antihuman. Personally I think it should develop away from beheading gay people; not sure about you.
Do you not think Western democratic culture isn't superior to, say, fundamentalist Islam, Soviet style communism, or even totalitarianism in the current Chinese mold?
