So I've started a new thing called BROTOPIANS
And you want to read it!
I’ve got a big announcement, which is that I’ve started a NEW THING, a sort of blog/newsletter thing on Ghost that I call BROTOPIANS. It’s about, well, brotopians, which is my name for a new species of techbro with utopian dreams, which tend to be pretty dystopian for the rest of us.
If you liked my coverage of some of the weirder aspects of AI, I think you’ll like this coverage of some of the weirder dudes in tech.
The new blog/newsletter will cover said brotopians, their wild dreams of perfect lives and perfect worlds (for them anyway) and the regular squashing of these dreams by reality. I will talk about everything from seasteading and failed charter cities to the weird diets of life-extensionists.
I will talk about Effective Altruism and Effective Accelerationism and why they are not at all the same thing. I’ll talk about the oft-professed love of Universal Basic Income amongst the AI elite and why that love is hollow since so many of them are Ayn Randians at heart. We’ll do peptide raves. I will explore why pretty much all of these techie utopians tend to be men, though that may become obvious after reading a post or two.
The first post is up -- it’s kind of an intro thing -- so go check it out!
--David