The Auron MacIntyre Show - September 02, 2026


Algorithmic Sovereignty and Post-Human Politics ｜ 9⧸2⧸26


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00:00:00.000 hey everybody how's it going thanks for joining me this afternoon i am orin mcintyre before we
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00:00:35.340 slash Oren to get $20 off today. All right, guys. So obviously we have flock cameras and we have AI
00:00:44.920 data centers and all of a sudden there's a lot of questions about how this new technology is going
00:00:50.820 to impact our lives. We've talked a lot about the possibility that AI will have revolutionary
00:00:56.860 effects on employment, on the economy, on art, on education, all kinds of different aspects.
00:01:02.680 But something we don't talk that much about is the impact it's going to have on the government.
00:01:07.460 And I think the impact it's going to have on government is actually just as, if not
00:01:11.100 more important than all the other areas that people focus on when it comes to artificial
00:01:15.600 intelligence.
00:01:16.600 So today I want to talk to you about a concept called algorithmic sovereignty.
00:01:21.460 It's something that I've been thinking about for a long time, something that I think has
00:01:25.200 big implications.
00:01:26.200 It's spun off of my work when it comes to the managerial revolution, the total state, all of that.
00:01:32.760 This is, I think, the next horizon that we can look to when it comes to developments in kind of government technocracy.
00:01:40.280 And I think it's really important to address this now because people are just starting to think about this technology in ways beyond, hey, is this going to take my job?
00:01:49.820 Is this going to make funny pictures for my parents to get fooled by on Facebook?
00:01:54.000 and they're starting to realize that this technology is going to warp literally everything
00:01:59.100 that we interact with and government is going to be no different again i think government actually
00:02:03.240 might be the most significant way that this algorithmic sovereignty impacts our civilization
00:02:09.360 so let's get a rough outline here what am i talking about when i talk about algorithmic
00:02:14.940 sovereignty well think about it this way recently obviously we had the war in iran
00:02:20.260 began. And when the war began, there was a question from the Trump administration when it
00:02:26.740 came to Anthropic, this AI company, because Anthropic did not want its tools being used
00:02:33.860 to operate weapons automatically without any human oversight, nothing that could kill people
00:02:40.440 without any human actually pressing the button. And they wanted the ability to guarantee that the
00:02:46.640 software that they're using, the algorithms, the technology would not be used to ultimately harm
00:02:52.680 innocent civilians, that there could possibly be some form of kill switch or some kind of override
00:02:57.900 that would ultimately decide whether or not that technology could be used in that way.
00:03:02.900 The Trump administration decided to try to label them as a kind of a domestic threat. There's
00:03:09.960 challenges, lawsuits, everything around that. It'll get hammered out in the court. That'll
00:03:14.140 be interesting, but that's not my main point when it comes to talking about this battle between
00:03:18.840 governments and AI companies. The interesting thing about the anthropic situation is that it
00:03:24.880 creates an additional layer of sovereignty in the command chain for the military that simply did not
00:03:30.520 exist previously. Obviously, there's a lot of steps between the commander-in-chief giving a
00:03:35.160 general outline of what a military should be doing and the direct on-the-ground leadership when it
00:03:41.260 comes to officers and non-commissioned officers, and then the soldiers actually carrying those
00:03:46.640 orders out. There are many layers of sovereignty, a chain of command, if you will, reaching from
00:03:51.920 the president all the way down to the grunt on the ground that kind of dictates normal military
00:03:57.600 behavior. However, Anthropic is creating a very different situation. AI is not some speculative
00:04:04.740 thing at this point. It's not just some chat bot that you talk to and people are silly because 0.81
00:04:09.360 they think it's going to take over the world it's literally being used in the iran war to
00:04:13.540 target things to put together targeting packages and the fact that we blew up a girl's school there
00:04:18.660 you know has some questions you know at what level was that a mistake of humans at level was that a
00:04:23.540 mistake of ai was it no mistake at all you know these are all very important questions and when
00:04:28.700 you have this ai lever layer in there it really complicates things because obviously what
00:04:33.560 anthropic is trying to do is keep the government from targeting things that they don't want it to
00:04:38.000 target. You know, if you if you talk about Anthropic having a kill switch when it comes
00:04:42.060 to targeting civilians, well, how far does that reach? You know, Trump has talked about repeatedly
00:04:47.700 targeting civilian infrastructure, water plants, electric plants, you know, all these things that
00:04:55.020 are critical rail lines, bridges. Does targeting those things equal targeting the civilian
00:05:00.300 population? Well, however you feel about that, that was a judgment that was made by elected
00:05:06.760 officials, people who at least theoretically have the sovereignty conveyed from the popular vote.
00:05:13.780 They have the legitimacy of that vote that's ultimately supposed to give them the ability to
00:05:18.880 make decisions on the part of the voting public. Anthropic has had none of that input. They are
00:05:24.000 accountable to no one, but they expect to have a layer of sovereignty built into their algorithm
00:05:30.240 that allows them to exert their will, what they see as critical moral concerns about military
00:05:37.040 actions in the middle of an ongoing conflict. Now, maybe you don't like what the United States
00:05:41.460 is doing in Iran, and you think that's a good idea. Maybe you think it's a good idea in general
00:05:45.840 for us to just have this built-in idea that you can't target civilians. Again, all of that is
00:05:50.920 rather irrelevant. That's an important debate, but that's not the debate we're having here.
00:05:55.140 the question is who decides that who gets to decide who is sovereign a sovereign is someone
00:06:01.720 who makes a decision without anybody else's input they have the final word they might listen to
00:06:06.180 other people but the sob but you know where sovereignty is because the sovereign makes the
00:06:09.780 final decision without dispute and in this case anthropic is injecting itself as an unelected
00:06:17.020 corporate sovereign into the u.s military's chain of command so whether or not you control your
00:06:23.160 algorithm in a military environment that is increasingly going to be dictated
00:06:27.240 by technology, by algorithms, by AI, that becomes a pretty important thing.
00:06:35.380 The Chinese, we found out recently, are training their AI algorithms to manipulate our social
00:06:43.600 media algorithms in an attempt to figure out how to manipulate our elections. They know that if 0.99
00:06:49.760 you message certain people in certain ways you can increase turnout decrease turnout you can change
00:06:54.360 public opinion of course pollsters already know this political strategists already know this they've
00:06:59.180 been using that for years but now china is trying to use this as a hostile actor they want to be 0.59
00:07:04.300 able to train their algorithms to manipulate our algorithms and thereby shift the electoral results
00:07:10.700 now china doesn't have this problem of course they're an authoritarian government you know they
00:07:14.520 have a technically communist but really kind of quasi-fascist government in China they don't
00:07:21.820 really have to worry about the stability of elections but the western system is based on
00:07:26.040 this idea that we're different we're special we're superior because we vote because our
00:07:31.020 freedoms are protected by our ability to kind of decide who's in charge through the electoral
00:07:38.760 process. And so the fact that the Chinese can use that legitimating mechanism as a weapon against us 0.99
00:07:45.500 through algorithms is really, really important. It means that the control of the algorithm could 1.00
00:07:51.160 have a direct control over who is in charge of your enemies. And so there's now an incentive
00:07:57.080 of basically every government, but especially governments that don't have to worry about
00:08:01.400 manipulations of their elections, to then manipulate our election. It makes perfect sense.
00:08:05.900 why is a hostile nation would you not use that tool on a regular basis if you can and so i think
00:08:13.000 this is really important because again most people have talked about the nature of our political or
00:08:19.000 cultural situation or economic situation when it comes to artificial intelligence but they have not
00:08:23.680 sufficiently thought through what this means for our political environment what major shifts this
00:08:28.720 is going to bring because what we're talking about here this is just the tip of the iceberg
00:08:32.740 This is the very beginning of AI.
00:08:35.200 AI is only going to be stronger.
00:08:36.660 It's only going to be smarter.
00:08:37.800 It's only going to be more powerful.
00:08:39.380 It's only going to be more capable of manipulating things behind the scenes.
00:08:43.540 And so the problems we're facing now that we're already running into are the smallest
00:08:48.280 problems we will ever face when it comes to AI and its interaction with our government.
00:08:53.240 So we better be ready.
00:08:54.180 We better understand the world we're stepping into because I think it's going to be just
00:08:57.900 as radical a change as the fall of monarchies was.
00:09:02.080 I think we really are looking at that level of shift.
00:09:08.160 So to understand what kind of shift is going to take place, we need to contextualize this
00:09:13.100 in previous shifts that have occurred. So previously, of course, we've talked about
00:09:19.440 the industrial revolution and the rise of the managerial regime. I've done a lot of work on
00:09:25.800 this. If you are unfamiliar with my talks on this, I've written an entire book on this called The
00:09:30.120 total state you'll find several several episodes and entire playlists on the manager elite on this
00:09:35.100 channel so i'm not going to go back and explain everything about this i'm about to give you like
00:09:39.560 the back of the book description of the managerial regime so if any of this doesn't sound right if
00:09:44.600 you're confused go check that out there's plenty of material i explained it in detail and that will
00:09:49.940 get you up to speed as to where we are now so you can know where we're going but to give you that
00:09:55.140 5,000-foot view. Obviously, when the Industrial Revolution came about, it was a radical change
00:10:02.400 the way humans lived their lives. It moved people out of agrarian society and into cities. It
00:10:07.980 introduced people to the idea of mass production and mass consumption, the standardization
00:10:12.060 of the production of things. We recognize that governments could suddenly have vast influence
00:10:20.080 through things like mass media first radio and then television it was very clear that something
00:10:25.980 had radically shifted in the type of societies we had and every one of our societies had to make a
00:10:33.080 decision on how they were going to manage this industrialization this massification the increase
00:10:38.480 of scale in society uh james burnham famously wrote a book called the manager of revolution
00:10:43.840 where he forwarded the premise that whether it was communism in Russia, it was fascism in Germany,
00:10:51.280 or it was liberal democracy in the United States under somebody like FDR, every one of these
00:10:56.680 systems, even though they had very different forms of doing this, was only trying to figure out how
00:11:01.280 to manage their centralized mass production, mass consumption, and propaganda. This had destroyed
00:11:08.420 the idea that we're going to have little states or towns or independents of any level. We needed
00:11:13.380 to bring all of the power under the state we need to bring all of the authority under the state
00:11:18.360 communications consumption production economics education whatever it was the centralized state
00:11:25.160 needed to be involved right this is why the federal government started dictating what you
00:11:29.260 would be teaching in local schools all of a sudden that's not a mistake that's not an oopsie right
00:11:34.360 like the reason there's a reason that our our american government which theoretically was not
00:11:40.300 totalitarian, not about centralizing power. There's a reason FDR was basically centralizing
00:11:44.900 anything and everything he could at that moment. It's not just because he was a power-hungry
00:11:49.340 tyrant, though, yes, he was, but it's also because this was actually a real reaction,
00:11:55.520 a real-time reaction to what was going on in the world. He was facing a political reality
00:11:59.860 where every other nation, every other system was going through this revolution, and he recognized
00:12:04.540 the need to go through it, too. You can agree with his methods, you can disagree with his methods,
00:12:08.340 But there's a historical contingency attached to what happened here. These governments didn't just explode out of nowhere. They were a reaction to something important. And all of these functioned at some level on the managerial premise. The idea that this messy human politics of statesmen and voting and leadership and virtue, that was all in the past, right?
00:12:32.120 aristotle plato like not really relevant anymore what we needed now were educated experts in these
00:12:38.940 scientific fields that are going to produce the best results and you know guys like walter lippman
00:12:43.940 wrote books like public opinion about why good liberals needed to learn to manage public opinion
00:12:50.160 so they could bring about these new results right that the vote was too dangerous to be left in the
00:12:55.220 hands of the people you need to understand how to manipulate these people so that you got the 1.00
00:12:59.640 proper outcome so that these stupid idiots the rubes in the middle of the country weren't 1.00
00:13:04.260 overruling the people who really know what they were talking about the doctors the professors 1.00
00:13:08.840 uh you know the lawyers the politicians like that's what mannered mattered and so we saw a
00:13:14.420 transition from much more human stable forms of organization organic ones that have grown up
00:13:19.860 for thousands of years to the centralization of power across mass bureaucracies all of a sudden
00:13:25.640 every corporation, every institution, even academia, media, even churches became bureaucratic
00:13:34.160 organizations. They were all broken down in this managerial style. Everybody needed to go to
00:13:38.520 college. Everybody needed to learn these techniques, how to operate in this manner.
00:13:42.520 That became central to our forms of social organization, and it took over pretty much
00:13:46.760 everything we do today. So this birth of the managerial regime created what most people think
00:13:55.840 of as the deep state, but I think the deep state goes far beyond just the unelected bureaucracy
00:14:00.840 of Washington. I think it goes to everything in our society, which is why I call it the total
00:14:06.300 state. I think that is a better understanding of what's happening here. And this is why when you
00:14:12.420 elect a politician when you elect donald trump donald trump can't do the things he wants to do
00:14:17.280 you know they're even the trump administration understands this much better in its second term
00:14:21.800 than it did in its first its first term it was constantly blocked by the deep state constantly
00:14:26.100 blocked by procedure constantly blocked by the machine the managerial regime that existed that
00:14:31.600 actually ruled the country so we know that getting elected is not the same as being in power those
00:14:36.820 are not the same thing schoolhouse rock was wrong about how government works in the modern day
00:14:41.620 might have been true back in you know 1820 that is not the regime you live under now you do not
00:14:46.840 live in the constitutional order you have never lived under a constitutional order your parents
00:14:51.020 never lived under a constitutional order maybe your great-great-grandparents kind of knew what
00:14:55.520 a constitutional order was maybe but you have never seen it you do not live under the constitution
00:14:59.840 anybody who tells you different is just lying to you that's not true you live under the managerial
00:15:05.100 regime. And the managerial regime has gotten very good at denying wins to people who want to take
00:15:12.320 it down. Trump went in the second time with the idea that actually now we know that personnel is
00:15:19.340 policy, that we have to care about these institutions. We have to discipline them.
00:15:23.500 We have to assert power in this way. And there were big changes early on. You could tell there
00:15:27.340 was a big difference. It seemed like the state was really scared there for a minute. The
00:15:30.840 establishment was really scared as Trump started tearing up, destroying things like
00:15:34.900 USAID, downsizing things like community relations service, this horrific service inside the United
00:15:41.720 States government. It was very clear that the Trump administration was taking this very seriously
00:15:46.160 this time, understood that it needed to attack certain aspects of the deep state. Unfortunately,
00:15:50.880 it's still not working. The Trump administration simply cannot wrangle control of the executive
00:15:55.420 branch away from the managerial regime. It's trying its best. It's making a lot of impressive
00:15:59.660 headway. You know, I'm not decrying the Trump administration really in this area. It's something
00:16:05.260 that's incredibly difficult, was always going to be a monumental task. It's not surprising that
00:16:09.540 they haven't been able to completely do it in two years. However, it still shows that there's a
00:16:14.700 serious disconnect from the way we are ruled, right? Like half of Trump's own DOJ won't do
00:16:19.900 their job. The people in the civil rights division just don't listen to Armie Dillard. Like, yeah, 0.99
00:16:24.940 she has some dedicated people, but she also has plenty of people who are just doing their best
00:16:28.880 to avoid it or just left because they didn't want to do what Trump was saying and they
00:16:32.740 are having trouble restaffing it because all the people who are experts in that area of
00:16:37.180 civil rights law don't want to work for Donald Trump.
00:16:40.340 They oppose Donald Trump.
00:16:41.620 And so even when you theoretically gain control of those institutions, can you actually wield
00:16:45.360 them because you don't control the staff because the staff have all left.
00:16:48.180 They've all gone someone else.
00:16:49.100 And because you're still playing by the rules of who's qualified and who isn't qualified
00:16:51.980 by the managerial rules.
00:16:53.340 Well, you don't have any personnel to fill those roles.
00:16:58.880 All right. So that's the managerial regime. Again, if you've ever been on this channel before,
00:17:03.100 you've heard about it. We've talked about it. Plenty of backstory if you need to know more.
00:17:07.480 But that's all about to change. The managerial regime is about to change. We're about to see a
00:17:12.360 huge, huge difference because the managerial regime is breaking down. I don't know if you've
00:17:18.080 noticed, but our government sucks. And I don't just mean like our government is evil. Of course, 0.99
00:17:22.740 you know, large parts of our government are evil. Our government is bad at what it does.
00:17:26.900 Like, even the people who are experts who are supposed to be able to operate this managerial regime, they're failing at it. 0.98
00:17:33.480 They're incompetent.
00:17:34.700 They can't get the work done. 0.99
00:17:35.780 There's too much bloat in the regime.
00:17:37.160 There's too much bloat in the bureaucracies.
00:17:38.920 There's too many extra incentives.
00:17:41.240 There's too many other interests.
00:17:42.980 It's dominated by personalities and all of these little tribal warfares going on. 0.89
00:17:48.020 The people in the managerial regime are failing it because a lot of them just are incompetent.
00:17:54.120 They can't operate the machine that other people built.
00:17:56.000 managerial regime might have had a lot of problems but at least it worked for a while it produced
00:18:00.320 the miracle of abundance the miracle of progress the miracle of america american expansion across
00:18:06.160 the globe both economically militarily culturally every way you can imagine and so again you might
00:18:11.740 not like the managerial regime but you understand why it worked you understand why it was in power
00:18:15.940 why people accepted its legitimacy despite the fact that it was basically spitting in the face
00:18:20.020 of the constitution we all had to come up with stories about why the constitution was still
00:18:24.360 working and still around, even though it's very clear it's being violated day in and day out by
00:18:28.960 the deep state. But whatever, as long as your pension continues to fill up, as long as the
00:18:34.460 prosperity flows, the life expectancies go higher, the next generation has promised something great,
00:18:39.160 well, fine. We'll put that aside. It's amazing what prosperity will do. People will surrender
00:18:44.960 quite a bit if they are comfortable. However, the regime has a problem. All of that is breaking down.
00:18:50.560 The additional complexity inside of it is no longer producing the marginal utility that it used to.
00:18:57.120 It is no longer producing the glorious outcomes that it previously had promised.
00:19:02.380 And so now you have an issue.
00:19:03.840 Things are getting worse.
00:19:05.620 Life expectancies are shortening.
00:19:08.860 People are less likely to own homes.
00:19:10.640 People are less likely to have families.
00:19:12.540 People are less likely to have economic and personal success.
00:19:16.380 And they're still living under this inhuman managerial regime.
00:19:20.560 So what do you do? If your population is getting more restless, they're getting more dissatisfied.
00:19:28.040 They're recognizing that the system is no longer working for them. They're noticing that you keep
00:19:32.420 importing, interestingly, a lot of foreigners who don't share their worldview, don't share their 0.91
00:19:36.960 language, don't share their religion or their culture. And those foreigners keep supporting
00:19:40.480 all the things that make their lives worse. They seem to be getting onto your game. So what do you 1.00
00:19:45.120 as a regime do? How do you pivot to solve this problem? Well, the answer is AI. AI can now do
00:19:54.240 the things that the manager elite used to do. And AI doesn't have a 401k. AI doesn't have a pension.
00:20:01.220 AI doesn't look for a promotion. AI isn't trying to play office politics with DEI. AI isn't, you
00:20:08.180 know, losing a step every single year because you're elevating dumber and dumber people due 1.00
00:20:13.740 their skin color or their sexual preference or their gender or something. AI just does the job. 0.99
00:20:19.480 And so AI can manage all the things, all the complicated bureaucratic tasks that the manager
00:20:24.660 elite used to do at scale. In fact, it can do it way better than they did way more thoroughly.
00:20:30.640 It can manage more people, more territory, more property simultaneously. And so artificial
00:20:35.980 intelligence has a massive advantage about this. And you can see why we're in the situation we're
00:20:42.440 in now? Why is it so important everywhere for AI to be developed? Why is every single country now
00:20:49.420 talking about the importance of AI, especially global leaders like America and China?
00:20:55.580 Well, part of it is war. That's the real part. When people talk about the changes AI is going
00:21:02.480 to make in war, those are very real, and we can't ignore it. Again, AI is already being deployed
00:21:07.120 in our missile targeting in Iran, that kind of thing, our bombing runs.
00:21:11.160 It's going to be used in all kinds of different ways on the battlefield.
00:21:14.940 It's going to be used to determine populations, invasions, ways to cut off different supply lines.
00:21:22.500 There's going to be a huge amount, obviously, where, you know, drone warfare is a huge thing.
00:21:26.840 We've seen how that's radically changed the war in Ukraine.
00:21:31.400 We've seen how it's radically changed the conflict between Iran and the United States.
00:21:35.840 this asymmetrical battle that Iran is able to participate in only really exists because the
00:21:41.140 American military was built to fight a last generation warfare. It's about a lot of aircraft
00:21:48.480 carriers and kind of Death Star units that make the defense industry rich and are very good at
00:21:54.140 taking on kind of, you know, dilapidated regimes in the Middle East, but are not prepared to deal
00:22:00.580 with regimes that have access to drones and that kind of thing. Now, that doesn't mean that Iran
00:22:04.760 is going to win this war militarily. If Iran wins the war at all, it'll be through economic pressure 0.57
00:22:10.180 and a lack of will from the United States, which I think might happen. That's why you should never
00:22:15.660 get in a war. You're not willing to kind of put everything into in the first place, but it's not
00:22:19.840 going to win the war in a one-to-one military slugfest. Like the only reason it's been able
00:22:24.100 to hang in so far is these new technologies and its ability to pressure the American economy,
00:22:28.340 but it's not going to like actually go blow for blow with American troops. And I think that's
00:22:32.700 the trick ultimately as much as technology is always promising to replace soldiers on the
00:22:36.860 battlefield it never does i do think drones are going to have a massive impact obviously already
00:22:41.200 had we can't deny that i don't think they're going to take the place of the infantryman i don't think
00:22:45.000 they're going to completely replace human combat uh people who tell you that are going to fall into
00:22:49.880 a similar trap that every previous technological innovation from aircraft to nukes has told you
00:22:55.300 that you know once we have this thing it's just we're never going to fight uh you know wars
00:22:59.140 between soldiers again never ends up being true that said it's obviously gonna have a huge impact
00:23:04.800 and whoever has the upper hand when it comes to artificial intelligence will have a major
00:23:09.860 advantage on the battlefield so the warfare aspect is real it is serious that is a very real reason
00:23:16.260 why every country is running towards ai the other reason is population control everybody is 0.77
00:23:22.480 converging more or less on the Chinese system. There's a fantastic article, kind of a long essay
00:23:30.080 called The China Convergence. If you have never read it, you should. It's very much a parallel to
00:23:37.700 some of the things I talk about in The Total State. And in that work, the author says that,
00:23:43.060 look, basically, the Chinese system has won when it comes to managing large populations.
00:23:49.120 If you want to manage a billion people, you want to manage a population at scale, you 0.98
00:23:54.500 basically need the Chinese system. 0.98
00:23:56.460 And since America wants more and more to be able to compete, it's going to look towards
00:24:01.680 the Chinese system to kind of ape what's going on there. 0.98
00:24:06.540 And I think that that's largely true, which means you're going to need social credit scores. 0.99
00:24:09.580 You're going to need constant surveillance.
00:24:11.540 You're going to need the very things that you see states like Britain and others implementing
00:24:16.000 on a regular basis.
00:24:17.000 This isn't just happening in the East. It's not just happening in what we call a totalitarian or authoritarian governments. It's happening here. It's happening in Western countries. It's happening in Europe. It's happening in the United States, and it will continue to happen.
00:24:29.380 so there's some key parts of this technology that are going to be critical uh to decide kind of
00:24:42.660 what's what's going to happen next one of the reasons i think data centers are inevitable
00:24:47.180 in the united states is the china issue when it comes to warfare i just don't think you're going
00:24:52.280 to be able to avoid the fact that there is a true existential crisis when it comes to competitive
00:24:58.240 advantage in military technology and data centers are going to be a part of that that said i think
00:25:06.340 that there is a lot that should be asked of data centers just because data centers are going to come
00:25:11.480 and they are going to exist and that's going to be the reality doesn't mean that you just give
00:25:16.780 these companies everything that they want without a fight i think there are critical concerns about 0.86
00:25:22.560 data centers that people need to recognize yes a lot of the arguments are dumb there are people 0.90
00:25:27.000 who think like you drop a data center you know in a community and it starts you know killing all
00:25:32.500 the birds and it makes the water undrinkable and it makes acid rain fall from the sky and just you
00:25:37.420 know most of that is is not true there are some water concerns but they're improving that you
00:25:42.600 know there are some issues however there are real concerns that communities have and they should be
00:25:47.800 addressed artificial intelligence uh you know it relies on data centers but data centers uh while
00:25:54.720 a lot of people are talking about how they're going to be self-sufficient, they aren't self-sufficient
00:25:57.940 now. Most of the ones that have been built and most of the ones that are being built still draw
00:26:02.600 on the local power grid, which radically increases the price of power for people in the areas where
00:26:09.180 they're built. Now, again, there are people who are already talking about building substations,
00:26:13.920 power plants, these kind of things as a requirement with the data center. And I think that should be
00:26:19.320 the case. I think every data center should be required to power itself. It should not impose
00:26:24.000 any cost on the community if it's going to draw any additional water or electricity it needs to
00:26:29.100 build the infrastructure for that to occur the other problem is that data centers while we're
00:26:34.760 often told are some economic boon really are not in most of the cases data centers are heavily
00:26:40.680 subsidized by the municipalities and states in which they are placed they're given the same tax
00:26:45.380 credits that other business startups are but the difference is that the ai data center only really
00:26:50.520 produces jobs when it is built. Yes, there are lots of blue-collar construction jobs that
00:26:55.640 suddenly emerge when you need to build a data center. But after it's built, how many people
00:26:59.660 do you really need to employ? You need to employ a few people to keep the servers running. You need
00:27:04.800 some security guards, a few engineers, management, that kind of thing. But in general, you're not
00:27:09.740 building a factory. You're not building a huge office complex where hundreds and hundreds of
00:27:14.920 people are going to work. You're talking usually about dozens of jobs at most when it comes to a
00:27:19.640 data center. And so the idea that you get the same sustained economic impact from a data center that
00:27:24.680 you get if someone drops a major car production facility or area, that's just not true. It's not
00:27:31.000 like you have a corporate headquarters that now employs 500 people. You have basically a warehouse
00:27:35.820 with a bunch of computer servers in it, and it takes a few dozen people to maintain it and guard
00:27:40.220 it and make sure no one runs in and steals anything. But that's about it. And so them getting
00:27:44.700 the same tax breaks or incentives, in fact, in many cases, more, there's often more incentives
00:27:49.300 coming from federal government, other avenues, that's nonsense.
00:27:53.940 You know, it should be the other way around.
00:27:55.380 These companies are planning to make billions and billions and billions of dollars,
00:27:58.820 often in scenarios where they expect to put lots of people out of work
00:28:03.140 in the long run with our official intelligence.
00:28:05.520 And so it's perfectly reasonable for people to say,
00:28:07.620 look, if you're going to install this thing in my neighborhood,
00:28:09.960 I'm going to need to see some upfront benefits.
00:28:11.900 Remember, most of the people who are building data centers
00:28:13.780 were the same people who locked you in your home during COVID.
00:28:16.560 They're the same people who made it clear that they were willing
00:28:18.820 to work with the federal government to censor things on social media, manipulate you, get you
00:28:22.520 to take a shot that was going to cause serious issues medically. I mean, these people have no
00:28:26.960 compunction about, you know, punishing the American population and working with the government to do
00:28:30.740 that. They lost a lot of trust from the average American, which they should. There should be a
00:28:35.120 cost for the behavior that they exhibited. And so rather than immediately turn around and reward
00:28:39.080 these people with big government contracts and juicy profits and tax benefits and everything
00:28:44.480 else i think it's entirely reasonable for communities to say all right i need to see
00:28:48.680 some goodwill here uh build a school build a hospital uh you know build bridges improve our
00:28:55.540 infrastructure build power plants it's a rounding error compared to what many of these people think
00:29:00.700 they're going to spend okay you think you're going to make like a billion dollars off this
00:29:03.520 data center well spend 50 million dollars to build something and help the community out or
00:29:09.240 we've seen some cases where for instance i think one of the data centers elon musk's building
00:29:13.600 the property taxes were in the area were like drastically reduced and the power bills were
00:29:18.740 drastically reduced basically his company is subsidizing both those aspects that's a good
00:29:23.380 way to build trust that that's the right model to do here okay the data centers are coming and
00:29:28.160 that's probably there's probably no stopping that so while i i'm hesitant about the role that ai
00:29:32.880 plays in our society in our future well i do think that there are real tangible downsides to data
00:29:37.800 centers, you know, I can see the train coming down the tracks, and I'd rather negotiate the
00:29:43.540 best possible deal for the communities in which that track is going to be laid, rather than sit
00:29:48.200 here and try to throw your body in front of the track and get nothing. I think we need to be
00:29:51.980 negotiating with these AI companies on the nature of data centers, how they impact the people around
00:29:56.880 them, get rid of any government subsidies, make sure it's the data centers paying for the
00:30:01.960 communities instead of the communities paying for the data centers. I think that's critical.
00:30:07.800 All right. That said, the other aspect that people are talking about with big AI right now is flock cameras. Obviously, flock cameras, we've had license plate readers before. That's not new. But the trick with flock cameras is, of course, they work in an AI database.
00:30:27.160 they're networked in real time. And so if you have dozens or hundreds of these things sitting
00:30:32.820 around, maybe thousands eventually in a municipal area, they basically can capture everybody who's
00:30:38.880 on any of the roads. They can mark every single car that's going by them. They can track where
00:30:44.960 they are in real time. This is something that previously would have required like a GPS tracker
00:30:50.060 where you would have needed a warrant to do that because of the fourth amendment. But ultimately
00:30:56.660 now you have this workaround where basically the law enforcement could have almost perfect
00:31:02.240 information of where every car on major streets is at any given time inside a community, but
00:31:08.760 they're not technically violating a law because of the current technological loophole that exists.
00:31:15.160 The trick with AI cameras, with flat cameras specifically, is that they are obviously
00:31:21.780 an anarcho-tyrannical technology, right? A lot of people will say, hey, well, these are going to
00:31:30.320 help us with crime. It's going to help us to catch people. But the issue is, you know, I worked as a
00:31:34.640 crime reporter for several years. I interviewed a lot of officers, a lot of prosecutors, police
00:31:40.520 chiefs. I'm radically pro-law and order, man. Like, I really, you know, I believe we should
00:31:46.600 introduce corporal punishment back into the system. We should radically expand the death
00:31:52.480 penalty, what it can be applied to. We should be expediting executions. I am not some soft
00:31:58.040 on crime civil libertarian. That is not who I am. I'm not like, oh, if the government has power,
00:32:03.560 we're all going down. That is not me. If you've paid attention to this at all, you know that's
00:32:09.360 not me. In fact, most of those people call me an authoritarian on a regular basis. I am woke right
00:32:13.780 for believing that the government should have authority.
00:32:16.960 However, there is currently this trend to ignore
00:32:20.140 what's actually going on with flock cameras.
00:32:23.060 So flock cameras, they capture all this information.
00:32:26.860 That's great.
00:32:27.420 Here's the only problem.
00:32:28.560 They don't solve the underlying issue
00:32:30.420 with crime in the United States
00:32:33.100 because crime in the United States is a issue of will,
00:32:37.020 not an issue of technology.
00:32:38.560 We know who commits crimes,
00:32:41.220 but we don't want to say because...
00:32:43.780 That could get messy. That could be dangerous.
00:32:45.960 We know where the crimes happen, but we don't want to reveal
00:32:47.960 that. We don't want to focus that. We don't want to put
00:32:49.680 all the extra cops in that area
00:32:52.000 because then it'll be clear that we're targeting
00:32:53.940 certain demographic communities. Because
00:32:55.860 we are. Because they're the ones that do the crime.
00:32:57.840 If you're going to police the areas where crime
00:32:59.880 happens, you probably have to move to the neighborhoods
00:33:01.720 where there's crime, and
00:33:04.040 those are going to be neighborhoods
00:33:05.880 of very specific minority
00:33:07.700 populations in the United States, for the most
00:33:09.900 part. We know
00:33:11.820 that we need to
00:33:13.780 capture people we need to arrest them we need to properly sentence them and we need to properly
00:33:18.820 properly charge them but we don't do that because it messes with our crime stats so we have you know
00:33:24.280 da's cutting deals prosecutors cutting deals you know constantly trying to avoid having too many 0.99
00:33:29.300 many minorities show up in our crime statistics and we know that putting people in prison for 1.00
00:33:34.500 extended period of time is the best way to improve quality of life for everybody who's a law-abiding 1.00
00:33:38.860 citizen but we don't want to do that because then we'll realize that we've got too many black people 1.00
00:33:43.980 in prison that's it like that's the answer that's the real reason we can't do any policing in the 0.99
00:33:49.620 united states look we have these teen takeovers happening in the u.s right now and to be clear 0.61
00:33:55.980 they're not teen takeovers they're black race riots you know they're they're organized crime 0.98
00:34:00.560 of black teenagers or oftentimes just you know black people in their 20s or 30s running around 0.99
00:34:06.680 stealing things you know breaking things doing uh you know vandalism assaulting people a lot of 0.88
00:34:13.720 stuff's on camera in fact in many cases these people are filming themselves right they're
00:34:18.360 filming themselves but we're not seeing hundreds of arrests we're not seeing police go out there
00:34:22.880 and capture everybody who's filming themselves running through a grocery store or running through
00:34:27.020 a downtown smashing things stealing things we all saw the blm riots lots of that was on camera we
00:34:33.460 knew who was doing the crime, but we didn't arrest them. So what are flock cameras going to do? Who
00:34:41.320 are flock cameras for? Will having more pictures of BLM rioters on flock cameras allow us to capture 0.85
00:34:47.620 them? No. We already had their pictures. We already knew who they are. Will having more
00:34:53.560 teen takeovers on flock cameras improve our ability to stop them? No. We already had all
00:35:00.620 of these people they were filming themselves we knew who they were so what are flock cameras for
00:35:07.380 you know a lot of people tell me you know pro flock people they say well you know everybody's
00:35:12.640 got a phone in their pocket and they've got ring doorbells on their doors you know there's there's
00:35:17.420 a gps and a camera and a microphone in your pocket at all times so what's the big deal with flock
00:35:22.800 cameras you know what why are we anti-flock camera when you're already comfortable with all
00:35:27.360 this surveillance and this is a terrible argument for like several reasons one well if i've already
00:35:34.600 got the gps in my pocket why do you need the flock camera if there's no difference between my phone
00:35:42.680 and my pocket in the flock camera why do you need the flock camera and the answer is obvious because
00:35:47.960 there's a huge difference there's a massive difference otherwise municipalities wouldn't
00:35:51.900 be spending millions and millions of dollars we wouldn't be see people see people spending
00:35:55.800 billions of dollars nationwide to install the flood cameras why would why would they all spend
00:36:00.780 billions of dollars if they already have the technology available they just like spending
00:36:06.660 the money that's the is that the explanation here of course not the answer is that the phone
00:36:12.880 is something i voluntarily purchase i could turn it off or leave it in fact a lot of people in
00:36:17.600 europe who have been you know standing against the government have learned that they need to
00:36:22.320 leave their phones at home because guess what look at britain they had tens of thousands of women 0.99
00:36:28.740 white women raped in their country by these rape games by these islamic rape games they have tons 0.98
00:36:35.720 of cctv cameras everywhere i think the statistic is something insane like if you live in a major 0.99
00:36:41.960 population center in the uk and you go outside you're on camera like you know 50 of the time
00:36:47.500 or something insane and yet these cameras were not used to bust the rape gangs why well because
00:36:55.140 the government already knew about the rape gangs the government was assisting the rape gangs they
00:36:59.160 were protecting the rape gangs they were on their side so all the cameras in the world weren't used
00:37:04.220 to stop those crimes you know who they were used to stop the people who protested those crimes the
00:37:09.600 fathers the brothers who got together and tried to stop what was happening that's who the cameras
00:37:15.180 were used on why is it going to be different in the united states answer is it's not going to be
00:37:20.740 different in the united states if the phones were enough we would just use the phones but you're
00:37:26.360 not allowed to use the phones because there's a fourth amendment protection against that
00:37:30.720 and that's why they want the flock cameras so they can get around it but if they have the
00:37:36.460 flock cameras and they're you know supposed to be for criminals but they want to arrest the
00:37:41.360 criminals and they already know where they are and they already know what they're doing they
00:37:43.860 know who they are they already have evidence the criminals are filming their cells half the time
00:37:48.680 if they won't enforce the law then why will they magically enforce it now that they have flock
00:37:52.520 cameras no one ever answers this question literally no one will do it i pose this question to every
00:37:58.280 person i have seen who is pro flock camera and not a single one of them has ever answered this
00:38:03.600 question and the answer is because there is no answer to this question there is no answer to
00:38:09.000 this question. They don't have one, because flock cameras aren't for criminals. They're for you.
00:38:16.320 Flock cameras are for population management. That's why they're an anarcho-tyranical technology.
00:38:25.300 The government refuses to already arrest the criminals they know exist. They won't go
00:38:31.060 where the criminals are. They won't charge those criminals or arrest those criminals.
00:38:35.340 they will not hold those criminals in jail that's already the state of play
00:38:39.800 they don't get the cameras and then magically start doing all that stuff no that's not what
00:38:46.300 the cameras are for what a flock camera is going to do is going to give the law enforcement perfect
00:38:54.840 knowledge of where all the law abiding citizens are and what they're doing basically think of it
00:39:01.460 as you know like facebook right like you're you're the product facebook isn't there for your
00:39:11.020 convenience it's data mining your information and then selling it off and that's what flock cameras
00:39:16.820 are for flock cameras the the the license plate reader technology is just the front door in what
00:39:24.740 flock is really building is a database a massive database of information which it will sell
00:39:30.240 it will it will absolutely sell it 100 or use it it will give it to tyrannical agents and they
00:39:37.500 will use it that's what flock is actually for so instead of you know facebook stealing all
00:39:44.080 your information but at least letting you you know catch up with your uh your friends from
00:39:47.960 high school or know what your grandma is doing it's going to send you you know parking tickets
00:39:52.540 and occasionally tell, you know, President AOC where she can kick your door in after you 0.99
00:39:59.740 were foolish enough to attend that pro-life march. That's what flock cameras are for. 0.99
00:40:05.860 That's why everyone's pushing for this technology, because they know we're all
00:40:11.780 converging on the Chinese system. Flock cameras are there so your country can look more like China. 0.93
00:40:18.660 Because the government refuses to solve the problem anyway, they're not going to solve
00:40:21.940 the crime problem. They're not going to magically
00:40:23.800 admit that the vast
00:40:25.960 majority of violent crime in the United States is committed 1.00
00:40:28.000 by black people because 1.00
00:40:29.400 you have a flock camera. 1.00
00:40:32.540 They're not going to admit that 1.00
00:40:33.940 minorities have a 0.98
00:40:35.120 vastly disproportionate
00:40:38.040 crime rate because
00:40:40.120 of flock cameras.
00:40:41.840 They're going to keep hiding that stuff
00:40:43.960 the same way they always have. They're going to
00:40:46.000 keep lying about it the same way they always
00:40:48.200 have, and then they're going to arrest
00:40:50.040 you. That's what the flock camera's for. It's to stop citizen action. It's to stop the middle
00:40:59.740 class from fighting back as the high and low turns on them. As the elites use the criminal
00:41:06.740 underclass to dispossess the middle class, flock cameras are there to make sure you can't fight
00:41:12.100 back that's what flock cameras are for flock cameras are for you okay like i just want to be
00:41:19.940 really clear and this is why algorithmic sovereignty to come back to our main topic
00:41:25.440 is so important that's why algorithmic sovereignty is the future because whether it's controlling
00:41:31.340 voting patterns or controlling civil disobedience you're going to need large-scale surveillance and
00:41:36.980 AI to control populations going forward. As we said previously, the Manigiro regime came to power
00:41:43.660 through its manipulation of large bureaucratic agencies, especially the media. In America,
00:41:52.200 we believe in the myth of popular sovereignty. We believe that that's what grants legitimacy to our
00:41:57.400 government. And so our elites figured out if they wanted to stay in power, then the thing they
00:42:01.700 needed to control was the public opinion. Again, Walter Littman said it explicitly. You could read
00:42:08.040 the book. He lays it out blow by blow. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to control
00:42:13.100 information to manipulate voters so we get the outcome we want. And he thought this was morally
00:42:17.780 good, morally required. And so that's what they've been doing. You know, the democracy,
00:42:24.980 mass democracy at least, has been ruled by television. That's what you're ruled by. You're
00:42:29.940 ruled by the television and everybody knows it everybody knows this at the end of the day this
00:42:34.820 is why money and politics matter so much because you can buy advertisements which means you can
00:42:39.280 literally brainwash people that's why money matters in politics because it's brainwashing
00:42:44.740 and the vast majority of time it works not every time there are some things propaganda can't
00:42:50.500 overcome but not much what is the covid pandemic except the beautiful demonstration of this type of
00:42:59.080 power so obviously television is what ruled us up until recently but now a new player is on the
00:43:07.160 field now that player is social media people don't get their news they don't get their opinions
00:43:13.300 their world isn't shaped solely by traditional television and movies anymore those still play
00:43:18.220 a role especially since the boomers are around but when that's gone pretty much everyone's just 0.94
00:43:22.580 going to get everything offline the idea of cable news and any real sense is going to die with them 0.99
00:43:29.080 And so it becomes really important to control the algorithm.
00:43:32.420 And China already knows this. 0.94
00:43:33.400 It's why they're trying to hack our algorithm to impact our elections. 0.95
00:43:38.340 If you can control the algorithm, you can control what people see.
00:43:41.300 If you control what people see, you control their reality.
00:43:44.160 And if you control their reality, you can manipulate their vote.
00:43:47.280 And so having sovereignty over the algorithm that delivers information to the people of your country is going to mean sovereignty overall.
00:43:57.880 in the same way military might created sovereignty sovereignty previously the digital warfare is
00:44:05.620 going to guarantee sovereignty going forward nations must be in control they will be in
00:44:10.940 control of their algorithm or they will be subjects to those who are in the same way that so many
00:44:16.260 countries are now basically satrapies of the united states colonies of the united states
00:44:20.440 satellites of the united states because the united states basically controls them militarily
00:44:24.720 there will be entire groups blocks of nations who are ultimately controlled by other actors
00:44:33.800 because they control the algorithm they deliver information into those countries and control the
00:44:39.060 population when you go to warfare you're not just going to go to war shooting you're going to go
00:44:43.220 to information war we've already seen this you've probably heard about this you know fifth generation
00:44:47.500 warfare stuff but it's only going to become more apparent that controlling and manipulating
00:44:52.040 information is the key, ultimately, when it comes to any government. So algorithmic sovereignty is
00:44:58.620 going to be absolutely huge. If you do not control the algorithm, you will not be able to control
00:45:03.580 the information. You also won't be able to control those population management devices that we talked
00:45:08.320 about, social credit scores, the flock cameras, the surveillance networks. If you don't have total
00:45:13.780 control of the algorithm, if some other nation, some other subgroup, some kind of corporation
00:45:17.800 has control of the algorithm, then as a sovereign government, you're going to lose control of your
00:45:23.460 people. You're going to lose your sovereignty. You have to control your algorithms. You have
00:45:27.120 to control your information environments. You have to control your population management devices.
00:45:31.320 So just as it was important to control media previously, control television.
00:45:35.460 In fact, in many, many cases, when it comes to taking over like some third world country in
00:45:41.760 Africa, the first thing people try to control is the airstrip and the television station.
00:45:47.060 You control who comes in and out, and you control what people hear and see. 0.96
00:45:51.540 And if you can control those two, then you probably already have the country.
00:45:55.180 The same is going to be true when it comes to algorithms.
00:45:57.440 The battle is going to be over who controls the algorithm, because that means you have sovereignty in the nation.
00:46:04.420 This is going to be post-human politics.
00:46:08.520 Previously, politics was the realm of the human.
00:46:12.700 It was defined by the human.
00:46:14.780 aristotle said that man is a political animal politics were the interactions between humans
00:46:21.540 struggling sometimes in mileways sometimes in full existential combat over who would have
00:46:27.940 resources who would have control of society culture religion control areas wealth military
00:46:36.540 like that's what politics was it was the clash of those things the negotiation of how those
00:46:41.620 resources would be distributed if they would be distributed at all but that's about to change
00:46:47.060 it already changed with the managerial revolution we saw politics become less human politics were
00:46:53.040 kind of absorbed into this background bureaucratic matrix that we didn't recognize was there for the
00:47:00.320 most part we were ruled by organizations we barely knew the name of functionaries we definitely
00:47:05.560 didn't know the name of guys like anthony fauci had enormous amounts of power before you even
00:47:10.160 knew their name. And when he did basically become the president of the United States for several
00:47:14.660 months, nobody voted for him. Nobody gave popular sovereignty to Anthony Fauci. He was simply in
00:47:21.600 charge because he was the expert and bureaucracies ruled the country. You had a scenario where guys
00:47:28.780 like Bill Gates were able to use the World Health Organization to basically run several countries
00:47:34.120 to make massive decisions outside any elected system in those countries on behalf of the people
00:47:40.840 of that country as a foreign actor with some kind of managerial regime. So already the politics
00:47:48.280 have become less about humans and popular sovereignty and all of these things and more
00:47:52.800 about bureaucratic organizations and systems and experts and momentum. But now we're going to move
00:47:58.460 to a point where the decisions aren't even made by humans anymore how much of human humanity is
00:48:05.800 in the political process when politics is entirely determined by algorithms when the chinese algorithm
00:48:12.980 is going to war with the american algorithm how many times are they actually checking in with the
00:48:17.720 humans that they're manipulating all of a sudden humans just become a battery in the very real
00:48:24.620 matrix sense right from the movie like you just become uh the the source of power that the
00:48:30.200 algorithm draws on to fight its combat you're just a resource you're one of millions of nodes
00:48:36.880 that the algorithm is trying to move around and use to generate you know economic output or
00:48:42.060 military output or whatever but you as your individual concerns you have no value to the
00:48:49.280 chinese algorithm it's not thinking about you as it tries to manipulate you into voting
00:48:52.920 so now your voting patterns your informational patterns are entirely informed by wildly 0.92
00:48:57.660 inhuman interests and this creates a feedback loop that well we'll get into more that's too
00:49:03.500 complicated to discuss here but suffice to say we're seeing how our politics are going to become
00:49:09.360 less human and i don't think there's a lot of ways to avoid this i think that a lot of this
00:49:14.640 is inevitable so you might say well orin you've delivered another doomer speech to me what do i
00:49:20.160 do now. Fantastic. AI is going to take over. Politics is going to become inhuman. I'm going
00:49:25.680 to lose sovereignty over my nation, and it's all inevitable. Thanks for the black pill. What do I do? 0.98
00:49:33.460 Well, the reason I'm telling you this is because we need to start changing the way that we approach
00:49:38.520 politics. Previously, the selection pressure on humans was largely one of survival. Could you
00:49:47.620 stay warm? Could you stay dry? Could you fight off predators or other humans that want to kill you?
00:49:55.220 Could you secure the number of calories necessary to survive? These are the things that humanity
00:50:01.500 selected for. But now humanity is capable of rather impressive abundance. There's a lot of
00:50:10.000 things about the current affordability in the United States, but ultimately most people are
00:50:16.140 not going to lack for calories. The quality of the calories might be different, but they're
00:50:21.980 probably not just going to die of hunger in the streets of the United States. That's not going
00:50:26.000 to be the selection pressure. However, what is going to make the difference is your ability to
00:50:31.900 say no. Your ability to say no. I am not going to become less human in the face of all of these
00:50:39.400 changes. I am not going to participate in this system. I'm not going to participate in this
00:50:44.360 simulacrum, this aping of reality. I'm going to stay in the human. I'm going to stay in the real.
00:50:51.180 How do you do that? Well, you choose to opt out of some of the abundance, about some of the
00:50:57.100 simulation of abundance. Maybe I'm going to be able to learn how to say, no, my child can't have
00:51:04.220 an iPad. My 12-year-old can't have a cell phone. No, they don't get to watch YouTube all day. No,
00:51:12.220 they don't get to have their entire lives, their entire belief system shaped by algorithms.
00:51:17.040 They're going to go outside and see sunshine and play with their friends and play football
00:51:20.740 and get in fights and learn to make mistakes and interact with girls and everything else
00:51:26.840 that a child needs to learn to become a real, fully functional human adult.
00:51:33.640 You're going to have to learn to make sacrifices so that you're not plugged in the system.
00:51:38.880 There are several great organizations right now focused on getting people self-sustained.
00:51:46.120 How do I learn to make money and pay the bills and maintain my status as like a breadwinner for my family without being connected to the system that is entirely dictated by these algorithms?
00:51:59.180 How separate can I be?
00:52:00.980 Can I make my own business?
00:52:02.320 Can I find different forms of income?
00:52:04.400 Can I diversify?
00:52:05.320 Can I pull myself off the grid as much as possible?
00:52:08.040 not that everyone's going to become a prepper, but not the worst idea. But how much can I become
00:52:13.320 autonomous? How much am I going to be dedicated to living in a community with people who have the
00:52:20.140 same goal? Am I just going to shove my kids in the government school where they're going to
00:52:25.320 learn everything on some Google laptop? Or am I going to find a classical education where my kid
00:52:30.540 is going to read paper books of great works and answer those questions themselves instead of just
00:52:37.120 typing everything into the government approved information machine like all this stuff
00:52:42.660 individually doesn't seem terribly important but this is going to be the project going forward
00:52:47.080 if you want to remain human in a world of inhuman politics the only way to do that is to deny
00:52:53.400 yourself these things to separate from your the system at some level now that doesn't mean that
00:52:57.960 you need to be an entire luddite you're still going to have to dive back into digital world
00:53:01.820 but it's going to be people who can draw the firewall
00:53:04.980 who can say here and no further
00:53:07.160 who can play in both the world of the digital and the real
00:53:11.100 who can maintain their humanity while still interacting
00:53:14.460 with that which comes next
00:53:15.960 that's what's going to be important
00:53:17.800 and so you need to start thinking about the idea of post-human politics
00:53:21.660 and what it will mean to stay human in that moment
00:53:23.940 because if you don't
00:53:25.880 this is not just going to radically change the political landscape
00:53:29.200 it's going to change you as a human being
00:53:31.080 it's going to make you less human your children less human your family your society your community
00:53:37.120 less human you're not going to be able to stop everything you're not going to be able to affect
00:53:42.020 this at the top national level the top global level but you can change it in your community
00:53:47.600 you can change it in your family you can change it in your church and that's what you need to
00:53:51.740 focus on going forward all right guys looks like we have a few questions from the people so i'll
00:53:58.280 check those out real quick bobby bob the nabob says i noticed a lot of dr content creators have
00:54:05.300 been doing uh are getting hammered lately with significantly decreased reach and almost no growth
00:54:10.280 of new viewers yes i have also noticed the shift in the algorithm again sadly we are as dependent
00:54:17.040 on the algorithm for discovery and growth as anybody else uh so if you are seeing a drop in
00:54:24.500 this guys couple things you can do if this is something that you care about and i want to be
00:54:28.880 clear here i'm fine i'm not here asking for money i'm telling you this is what smaller creators are
00:54:34.980 going to need people who don't have a major platform they're going to need financial support
00:54:39.180 if you can help them through patreon or substack or something like that by all means please do so
00:54:44.240 they also need you to go out there and share their work you know that one person doesn't do it all by
00:54:50.040 themselves. But if you have a lot of people regularly going out there and, you know, talking
00:54:54.960 to people, you know, word of mouth, sharing on social media, that kind of thing, that helps with
00:54:59.280 the reach that helps break people out of the artificial ghetto that is created by a lot of
00:55:04.220 these platforms. And of course, to the extent that you can, you know, help out the algorithm by
00:55:09.220 liking, subscribing, commenting, all those things that seem small, but they tell the algorithm that
00:55:15.120 a channel needs to be you know kind of elevated you know it might it takes you two seconds to
00:55:20.840 click and say you know like the video uh in the comment and that will do more for the creator
00:55:25.940 than most of the other things that you'll see so if you are noticing this change with some of your
00:55:31.300 favorite content creators make sure to do that because otherwise yeah they will get buried that's
00:55:36.640 just the case youtube has been very clear that they intended to shift uh content on the site to
00:55:41.700 approved outlets major outlets less and less you know kind of smaller content content creators
00:55:47.260 doing this gorilla you know kind of thing when it comes to making content they want it to all
00:55:52.840 be big in corporate that's what they want for youtube and so if you want to fight back against
00:55:56.900 that you have to go ahead and make those changes sm2 2049 says i have a different take data centers
00:56:05.660 scaled down due to tech advances i worked on many downsizes during the mid-2000s look all of this
00:56:13.160 is possible right like i'm sure there's going to be big changes in data centers elon musk is already
00:56:17.660 saying in like 10 years we're just going to launch him into space right uh and sure great right but
00:56:22.760 until then people live in the real world uh the problem is that people always promise these
00:56:27.360 technological innovations sometimes they come sometimes they don't uh and maybe they will maybe
00:56:32.360 you know all concerns with data centers will be ridiculous uh they're all going to end up being
00:56:36.980 you know they're going to go from being the size of a super walmart to being the size of a you know
00:56:42.060 post office or something you'll barely notice them when you drive by great right they won't draw on
00:56:47.680 power they won't pollute if that all happens fantastic you know but we're living in the here
00:56:52.080 and now and so that's what i'm actually addressing not the theoretical gains we might make in ai
00:56:56.580 technology data center technology any of that though by all means you know you might be right
00:57:00.680 about that and if you are fantastic the capitalismo says many cities are at a historic low population
00:57:07.120 and have energy water supply systems built for twice sometimes four times the current population
00:57:11.740 dc can provide the gap usage gap revenue to maintain those systems there are sure some
00:57:19.180 places like that there are plenty that aren't right and so this is one of those scenarios where
00:57:23.980 it's probably not actually a solution in most of those situations but there might be somewhere it
00:57:29.920 And for those communities to where it is a boom, great for them. Congratulations. But also artificially maintaining those systems through the data center kind of proves my point, right? Like we're now we're depopulating these areas and replacing these human resources, this human infrastructure with infrastructure that is only meant to be sustained by data centers.
00:57:54.040 I guess if you're in your brain, optimizing the amount of infrastructure being maintained is the goal, then yes, that meets that metric.
00:58:03.980 But I don't think it's overall amount of infrastructure that's the goal.
00:58:08.640 It's infrastructures meeting human needs that's the goal.
00:58:11.340 But this is the problem with post-human politics, right?
00:58:14.040 The problem with post-human politics is you stop thinking about the needs of people, you start thinking about the needs of systems.
00:58:19.540 And actually, in this case, that's exactly what we're kind of laying out here. 0.97
00:58:24.040 uh belgians are evil trust me says university of melbourne and austin government uh wrote 0.66
00:58:31.640 or an australian government uh wrote report uh calling anti-feminism violent extremism 0.98
00:58:37.560 uh female safetyism plus ai mass surveillance of so-called misogyny oh yeah i mean obviously
00:58:42.660 that's gonna happen like guys if you don't think that ai and uh flock hammer is going to be used
00:58:48.000 to punish thought crime i can't help you man like we just saw a woman convicted for saying the n-word
00:58:54.760 when a somalian sex pest was berating her and her child in a public park and that was only because
00:59:03.860 he filmed it on his own phone you don't think this is going to get even worse like obviously this is
00:59:09.500 going to this is exactly what technology is going to be used for if you can't see that i i just can't
00:59:14.040 help you you're you're completely lying to yourself manny you says the world you were born in no
00:59:19.160 longer exists and a brave new world is being born remember that always true man always true
00:59:25.240 uh he says but larian jihad or the great machine war will be more spiritual war than a physical
00:59:31.120 war against the machines yep i think that's exactly right uh or at least the the spiritual
00:59:36.040 war will precede anything else uh again the the decision to remain human is going to be an
00:59:42.380 intentional one, one you have to make with the help of friends and family, one that you have to
00:59:48.300 weave yourself in community to avoid. Remember, who are the people who ultimately avoided pandemic
00:59:53.900 hysteria the most, right? The people who are completely sold on like the 19th vax and the
00:59:58.860 fourth mask and the infinite social distancing and locking everybody inside. They were the people who
01:00:04.540 were already the laptop class, the educated class, the people who got all of their information on
01:00:09.220 the television. It's the delivery drivers. It's the people, construction workers, people who had
01:00:14.660 to be outside all day because that's what their job is. Who knew that this was all a lie? It's
01:00:19.520 all garbage. It's the people who are in religious communities, who are going to go to church no 1.00
01:00:23.160 matter what, who are able to resist. It's the people who are contacting reality on a regular
01:00:28.300 basis because they were involved in a very real way who avoided this. So how do you stay human?
01:00:33.940 go to church have a family be outside interact with people in your community interact with
01:00:41.520 local politics that's the stuff that your ai algorithms are probably less likely to manipulate
01:00:48.880 the ones they can control the least because so few people participate you and if you got a hundred
01:00:54.400 guys and you can show up to a city council meeting county commissioning meeting school board meeting
01:00:58.900 you're going to sway politics way more than an algorithm if you can do that on a regular basis
01:01:03.560 at the local level. So if you want to stay human in these moments, that's what you need to do.
01:01:10.480 Cyberchud said, but surely we need flock to stop people running red lights in childless,
01:01:18.740 in children's, sorry, let me try that again. But Orrin, surely we need flock to stop people
01:01:24.520 running red lights in children's gymnastic classes, church parking lots, and in front
01:01:29.360 of their ex's houses yeah he's already pointing the fact that flock cameras have been used by
01:01:33.980 people to stalk and abuse like ex-spouses uh that kind of thing uh i've noticed a lot of
01:01:40.760 flock cameras in front of my gun ranges and my churches but not as many in the ghetto curious
01:01:47.520 that huh interesting where flock cameras end up they're not in the worst neighborhoods in my
01:01:53.060 community they're in front of the churches in the gun ranges something to consider
01:01:59.360 spartan uh 60 or go 62 says the other shoe is dropping in regards to yarvin dark elves with
01:02:06.900 the flock uh look guys uh yeah some people have noticed that me and curtis yarvin have gone back
01:02:11.780 and forth on this issue um i think curtis is very wrong on this um and i don't think he's given any
01:02:18.200 really good arguments uh it's been very dismissive on this issue that said uh love curtis uh you know
01:02:24.480 have hung out with Curtis multiple times, have obviously, you know, interviewed him on this
01:02:29.340 channel. He's critical to the formation of, of a lot of what I understand when it comes to
01:02:33.580 political realities. Curtis has been wrong about politics before. This isn't the first time he's
01:02:38.220 been wrong. He's just wrong again. And that's okay. Like Curtis is right more often than he's
01:02:42.500 wrong. He thinks deeply on issues. Very few people think about and in interesting ways.
01:02:46.400 And even when Curtis is wrong, he's wrong in interesting ways, which makes him worth thinking
01:02:51.800 about one of the things that's great about philosophers like plato or aristotle is he
01:02:56.460 didn't know who they thought should like be the head of the county commission right like you only
01:03:01.180 have their most thoughtful works that have survived all you know thousands of years of history you
01:03:07.760 don't have their opinions on every given uh politician that they interact with or every
01:03:12.500 policy heck plato tried to help out the tyrant of syracuse how did that work right so uh you know
01:03:18.440 So great thinkers, great philosophers, important, you know, political theorists, they can be wrong in specific applications of their theory, but be right overall, or at least be interesting overall in ways that make us think.
01:03:31.140 So even though I think Curtis is wrong in this scenario, I'm not going to discard everything about, you know, what he said.
01:03:36.040 I'm not going to discard everything I learned from him.
01:03:37.740 I'm not going to denounce him or start being mean to him or not be friendly with him or something.
01:03:41.960 uh you know that that's not what we should take away from our interactions with uh you know kind
01:03:47.200 of thinkers in our current day like i just think that's a bad way to conduct yourself in the wrong
01:03:52.080 the wrong message to ultimately take away uh from that all right guys we're gonna go ahead and wrap
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