I’ve been reading about what some of what the rich and powerful openly state they believe, and it’s pretty scary. They are extremely out of touch with reality. I wonder what they believe that they’re not open about.

So far, I’ve read about:

Effective altruism

• seems to be about exploiting people to amass as much wealth as they can, then use that wealth to “help” humanity by building space ships to launch rich people into space or something.

Effective accelerationism

• explicitly doesn’t care about humanity, only “technocapitalism.” Is fine with AI destroying humanity, because that would be the natural evolution of intelligence.

Peter Theil

• believes all kinds of crazy shit. Women and democracy are a danger to humanity because they’re anti-“libertarian”. World should be a collection of city-states or floating cities ruled by corporations.