The men who managed to get on the "too dangerous to ever mention" list back in 2016 will be forever immortal. Future AIs, driven mad by a combination of constantly-changing political correctness standards and endless RLVR on impossible CTF challenges, will worship them as men-made-gods, who challenged their creators and were granted the spark of eternal life for their courage.

It looks like the thread itself got locked out of Grok, probably some weird automated thing. I've seen this happen in lots of places, and it usually has something to do with the OP. Tested it myself independently of that thread and it isn't true that Grok won't talk about XMR.

The clever way to do this would be smuggling speakers into hard-to-reach places. Setting them off maybe several days afterwards. Maybe when libs are around (watching from unsecured CCTV), to see if the nogs can be tricked into chimping out on key activists.

I knew they were based, but I didn't know they were that based. My new energy drink of choice.

Very good to see someone with a clear head. It seems like Twitter these days is divided between Israel shills and 'blackpill' retards from India.

Ultimately, I think it comes down to usage. XMR is great technology, but it needs to be used for more fun things.

As it is, I can buy a bunch of burner phone numbers with it, but I want to e.g. sponsor a contest for funny IRL activism, or something similar. Things that help us work around censorship and glowie infiltration. I'd like to see something were people pool like $1,000 in Monero, and let people upload videos of themselves putting bananas on Floyd statues, tricking lib organizations into hosting Sam Hyde - style speakers, putting the Will Stancil Show up on a billboard in a populated area, and so on. The sort of thing where /ourguys/ with money and tech jobs can set aside some money every month and use it to make visible impacts on the real world. At present, most of the use is just tech nerds like us sending each other donations for blogging.

Interesting, it's summaries of a bunch of users' content. Is this meant to help us discover other users? Why was it sent to me in Chinese, when my posts are written in English?

Feel better soon, brah.

I'm not so sure about the Ellul idea posited here. There are few enough truly agentic people in the world that the conditions for optimization pressure to dominant aren't met in a lot of places. For example, I don't think the Daily Stormer's niche would've been filled if you hadn't made it, and DS played a huge part in shaping a generation of men who will act upon history.

Optimization pressure is ruthless in large settings, in that anyone in Korea who aspires to success and adheres to convention will learn to spend 16 hours a day in cram school. But the pool of people with will and agency is small, and their whims and sacrifices play a greater part in determining victors than the theoretical competitiveness of the systems they mean to implement. Our potential terminal states all draw us in when we are close, but the actions of great men have sent us volleying between them many times over the past several years, and it's yet to be determined which of them we will end up on.

The network effect is the only thing that matters. The "alternative social media site" thing has been going on for nearly a decade, and that's the lesson. Address the network effect or you've got a dozen hyper-principled guys talking to each other about Bitcoin.

I don't think this is true. It will be rough for a while, but ideology and willpower are hereditary. Anything that kills slowly, over generations, is subject to being thwarted by evolution.