When I have time I will try and compile his twitter posts and
Other statements. Basically he's been promoting the version that says governments have super tech and they are hiding it, but doubts they are aliens.
Eric Weinstein's going on about the same thing!
https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1393981304698400772
there's a new dumb IDW bro theory to map out
Yeah I think this is at least part of the reason. He goes out looking for low status beliefs because he thinks there's a conspiracy in "elite" academia, and then gets taken in by the "evidence" because he's naive/a moron/confirms to his biases. I do find it ironic he trusts John Podesta and also the defense department when they release blurry UFO pictures but he doesn't trust NASA.
It gets messy, because tech bros have been tricked into identifying with the needs of the capitalist class. Very few engineers seem to realize that they’re actually labor.
Thats deliberate, engineers as a category/educational structure was designed as a group of skilled laborers that could be relied to side with management.
Eh. That's an oversimplification. I'm a tech guy (though not a bro) and I think we feel like this because working in tech is much more of a two-way street than other forms of employment right now. We're in demand, so employers actually try to listen to us when we're negotiating for our positions. We're comfortably compensated. We have good benefits as a standard. Our work is often interesting and leads us to learn something new regularly. We get to flex our creative problem-solving muscles. We're provided comfortable, laid-back, aesthetically pleasing work environments. We're given mostly free reign/trust to do our work because few people really grasp what it entails, often including our own bosses and project managers. It's really a form of privilege, because we're so immersed in this dynamic that some of us tend to believe that these conditions are similar to other forms of labor. Of course, they should be, but they aren't. Once you're at that stage of self-determination it's easy to fall into the libertarianism trap.
Despite this, I think we understand pretty well that they let us in, but they won't let us win. Once in a while we feel the full pressure from management and it's plainly clear that we're actually the "them" to their "us". In the end, I know my place but I don't mind taking VC money to work on interesting projects.
Once you find out Hanson, co-founder of the rationalist movement, believes in UFO conspiracy theories, everything makes sense.
But can he get another Nobel Rock by finding life on the first one?
Strange how XKCD is (probably) enjoyed by tech-bros without supporting (afaik) reactionary politics.
Nah, reference to the thing he is referencing.