How do you feel about the “red pill” they seem to embrace (Musk openly and Thiel by evidence)? Do you feel this worldview affects their actions? Do you think it is extreme? Which political affiliation does “red pill” seem to belong to—left or right? Do you believe in those “sexual markets” stuff? Thank you for your replies.
I would have upvoted but for the red pill paragraph, which seemed needlessly uncharitable to Thiel and Musk. Your comment here seems more like it’s spoiling for a fight than looking for a discussion.
IIRC Musk once tweeted ‘take the red pill’ with no context, a phrase which traditionally referred to any instance of people having a radical perspective shift. When asked, he said he didn’t know about the pick up artistry subgroup of the same name. I see no reason to disbelieve this, and I haven’t heard him say anything particularly in line with their views elsewhere.
The red pill philosophy is broadly associated with—though strictly unrelated to—right wing politics. What does that have to do with anything? Plenty of EAs are right wing. It’s not a pejorative.
To sum up my other comment, yes, I want to confront you with normalizing red pill. I think it’s fascist and dehumanising.
Yes, I also think it’s relevant to AI alignment, because a community that is not aligned itself, that is “at war” between it’s own genders (tech people), is unlikely to align something else well.
Saying this as a person from a fascist country who kinda supports an ex-fascist politician trying to do better and be kinder (see Navalny)
Saying this as a sexual abuser and mentally abused.
Saying this as one who apologized and saw that what I did was wrong. And one who now sees how stupid and unnecessary it was.
Saying this as one who talked to pro-Putin people a lot to understand how this all works.
There are ways to have both emotion and logic at peace and harmony. Together. Not at war.
Which “right wing” do you mean? I think it was about “small government” (but not “zero government”).
How is “red pill” related to “small government”? :)
You’re using the other “right wing”, which is something related to traditional family. That is one step there—a patriarch in the family. “Red pill” is asserting that it has enough explanatory power to overwhelm the aspect of free will in decisions of women and men, that the “sexual market” is a more clear explanation for how relationships go.
I’d say it’s a bit of an extreme step, because it claims a single simple objective for the whole of humanity: “women procreate, men fight”, creating a “stereotype of masculinity” being about “winning fights, physical or metaphorical”.
This theory completely ignores male singers who don’t seem to be into this stereotype. Some women loved Michael Jackson, and he doesn’t seem to be the “fighting type”, rather the feelings one.
This theory has blind spots, and is asserted quite forcefully: it has a mechanism of one being scared that they’re “poisoning their market value” if they do something out of line, seen in “chad/incel” memes for example.
Saying this as a person from Russia who saw the rise of fascism in our country, how our culture war went from the internet to the battlefield. I believed in this. I have seen this to be false. Saying this as a person who is responsible for sexual assault and who tries to heal and be better. “Red pill” is b.s. see my posts on Mastodon to see more on this.
It’s an extreme theory that ignores important corner cases (queer people), and tends to make people resentful towards anything not fitting in the theory, all while taking away “free will” to replace it with a “simple objective function”, without any research and clear outliers/exceptions, and is linked to male violence. Ironically, turning people into machines, the very thing the real “red pill from the movie” was not really pro: the concept name itself is stolen from a movie by trans authors and basically turned upside down in an evil twisted way: Neo was like “I’m gonna talk to the machines and bring peace to y’all. The war is gonna end”. Red pillers are like “we like guns, force and fighting and don’t like to talk about complex things much” 🤷♀️
“Small government” right wing is not a pejorative. “Traditional cisgender relationship with a man deciding things” is ok too if a women likes it too (and not forcefully taken into that). “Red pill” is, like, way out there for me—it’s a notion that a man can take any woman—nonsense if we consider that some women cheered when Trump was like “grab them and such”, and some women would not like a single violation of consent, like tagging on Twitter. Women are just people. People are different.
“If I loved him any less, I’d make him stay
But he has to be the best , player of games”
She asserts she is aware of the ongoing “push-pull” pickup artistry from him, but refuses to apply it herself to achieve her goal, then says thay the dude is always at work basically
I’d say by the video, using subjective holistic judgement, that he’s legit red-pilled.
And my post above says that red pill is extreme and linked to fascism.
And I say it’s related to so many cases of sexual assault in tech, EA, finance—people see “simple markets” where there’s just so much more complexity, and not much markets necessarily :)
So you don’t have any further reason to think Musk has anything to do with red pill philosophy, but you’re going to cast a bunch of aspersions on him and then randomly insult me at the end.
How do you feel about the “red pill” they seem to embrace (Musk openly and Thiel by evidence)? Do you feel this worldview affects their actions? Do you think it is extreme? Which political affiliation does “red pill” seem to belong to—left or right? Do you believe in those “sexual markets” stuff? Thank you for your replies.
I would have upvoted but for the red pill paragraph, which seemed needlessly uncharitable to Thiel and Musk. Your comment here seems more like it’s spoiling for a fight than looking for a discussion.
IIRC Musk once tweeted ‘take the red pill’ with no context, a phrase which traditionally referred to any instance of people having a radical perspective shift. When asked, he said he didn’t know about the pick up artistry subgroup of the same name. I see no reason to disbelieve this, and I haven’t heard him say anything particularly in line with their views elsewhere.
The red pill philosophy is broadly associated with—though strictly unrelated to—right wing politics. What does that have to do with anything? Plenty of EAs are right wing. It’s not a pejorative.
To sum up my other comment, yes, I want to confront you with normalizing red pill. I think it’s fascist and dehumanising.
Yes, I also think it’s relevant to AI alignment, because a community that is not aligned itself, that is “at war” between it’s own genders (tech people), is unlikely to align something else well.
Saying this as a person from a fascist country who kinda supports an ex-fascist politician trying to do better and be kinder (see Navalny)
Saying this as a sexual abuser and mentally abused.
Saying this as one who apologized and saw that what I did was wrong. And one who now sees how stupid and unnecessary it was.
Saying this as one who talked to pro-Putin people a lot to understand how this all works.
There are ways to have both emotion and logic at peace and harmony. Together. Not at war.
Red pill ain’t it.
It’s extreme, agressive, ugly, stolen, perverted, dead.
Which “right wing” do you mean? I think it was about “small government” (but not “zero government”).
How is “red pill” related to “small government”? :)
You’re using the other “right wing”, which is something related to traditional family. That is one step there—a patriarch in the family. “Red pill” is asserting that it has enough explanatory power to overwhelm the aspect of free will in decisions of women and men, that the “sexual market” is a more clear explanation for how relationships go.
I’d say it’s a bit of an extreme step, because it claims a single simple objective for the whole of humanity: “women procreate, men fight”, creating a “stereotype of masculinity” being about “winning fights, physical or metaphorical”.
This theory completely ignores male singers who don’t seem to be into this stereotype. Some women loved Michael Jackson, and he doesn’t seem to be the “fighting type”, rather the feelings one.
This theory has blind spots, and is asserted quite forcefully: it has a mechanism of one being scared that they’re “poisoning their market value” if they do something out of line, seen in “chad/incel” memes for example.
Saying this as a person from Russia who saw the rise of fascism in our country, how our culture war went from the internet to the battlefield. I believed in this. I have seen this to be false. Saying this as a person who is responsible for sexual assault and who tries to heal and be better. “Red pill” is b.s. see my posts on Mastodon to see more on this.
It’s an extreme theory that ignores important corner cases (queer people), and tends to make people resentful towards anything not fitting in the theory, all while taking away “free will” to replace it with a “simple objective function”, without any research and clear outliers/exceptions, and is linked to male violence. Ironically, turning people into machines, the very thing the real “red pill from the movie” was not really pro: the concept name itself is stolen from a movie by trans authors and basically turned upside down in an evil twisted way: Neo was like “I’m gonna talk to the machines and bring peace to y’all. The war is gonna end”. Red pillers are like “we like guns, force and fighting and don’t like to talk about complex things much” 🤷♀️
“Small government” right wing is not a pejorative. “Traditional cisgender relationship with a man deciding things” is ok too if a women likes it too (and not forcefully taken into that). “Red pill” is, like, way out there for me—it’s a notion that a man can take any woman—nonsense if we consider that some women cheered when Trump was like “grab them and such”, and some women would not like a single violation of consent, like tagging on Twitter. Women are just people. People are different.
Musk’s ex-wife made a song about him.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ADHFwabVJec
“If I loved him any less, I’d make him stay But he has to be the best , player of games”
She asserts she is aware of the ongoing “push-pull” pickup artistry from him, but refuses to apply it herself to achieve her goal, then says thay the dude is always at work basically
I’d say by the video, using subjective holistic judgement, that he’s legit red-pilled.
And my post above says that red pill is extreme and linked to fascism.
And I say it’s related to so many cases of sexual assault in tech, EA, finance—people see “simple markets” where there’s just so much more complexity, and not much markets necessarily :)
Bite me :)
So you don’t have any further reason to think Musk has anything to do with red pill philosophy, but you’re going to cast a bunch of aspersions on him and then randomly insult me at the end.
Bye.
I’m not insulting you. I’m challenging your belief.
And, where is the insult? Which line?.. I’m saying that the red pill ideology is fascist. How does it insult you? Well, unless...
And yes, I think that if his multiple wifes all say kinda the same thing, it’s legit evidence. Yes.
And yes, I believe this is relevant for alignment. Directly. A community of red pillers creates an AI. Where would it go and what would it do?..