Well, that was the point of my recent link:
The Fake Futurism of Elon Musk
https://youtu.be/5OtKEetGy2Y
There's a trend away from good old fashioned futurism to this Tony Stark
near-radical thing, analogous to the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeal to the
youngsters. I blame it on comics and super hero movies. Pffft. Irony is dead.
Subtlety is dead. It's all about the bling, baby.
On 1/24/22 16:19, Marcus Daniels wrote:
SFI sponsorship seems like very much a fideistic declaration. It would be
interesting to see how that influence network feeds into a D.C. influencer
network and real money. There are some linkages, like Brookings, but
leverage-wise it all seems much softer than with LANL and the DOE. And it all
seems so fussy and indirect compared to slapping down a few billion dollars to
build a Starship. That's the appeal of Musk: I'm f'ing doing this.
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Well, that ain't true, either. Like Epstein, when you "invest" in the SFI or
people like Steven Pinker or Bill Clinton, you're simply transferring from one store to
another ... buying influence. If, e.g., the CIA contracts with the SFI to adapt a CAS
modeling tool into a broad spectrum simulation tool, they are not only buying a
(questionable) piece of software; they're buying *leverage* over people's salaries,
loyalty, etc. So those VCs *will* see that money again, perhaps much less of it,
depending on the efficiency of the transaction, or in fringe storage types (able to get
past the receptionist after eating over-priced peri-Mexican food in order to have tea
with smart people).
On 1/24/22 15:31, Marcus Daniels wrote:
Some of them sponsor SFI for goodness' sake! They'll never see THAT money
again!
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glen
Theorem 3. There exists a double master function.
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