But the future of warfare is actually neither "based" nor "woke". It's all drones.
WW1 opened with horses, which were cut to ribbons by machine guns. Our vision of the military is similarly antiquated: fitness is great, but muscular men lose to unmanned drones.
Why are these ads being produced by the CIA and US military, after all? Because wokes are in control. These particular ads are misfires, but who's in control is not in doubt. And it's not the pushup guys.
Just because wokeness is laughable doesn't mean it won't endure for a while. People laughed at Soviet propaganda too, before they got executed for it.
Consider this Nasser video from 58. They all laughed at the idea of mandatory veiling. Then it happened.
In XCom, the physically fragile Sectoids have a key ability: mind control. Every muscular soldier they flip is -1 for your side, +1 for theirs.
Now apply this to wokes-vs-drones. Woke mind control flipped the pushup guys in the US military, but won't work on Chinese drones.
Why are psyops key to the military?
If 1000 drones are coming at you, you can shoot them down 1-by-1. Or you can hack them, to turn them around on their sender.
If 1000 soldiers are coming at you, you can shoot them 1-by-1. Or you can propagandize them to turn on their sender.
Because "woke" is better at mind control than "based", it is consolidating power at the national level in the US. After all: woke deplatforms based, not vice versa.
But there are more than 2 factions. Wokes can't easily mind control PRC drones or deplatform international crypto.
In the early 20th century there were many ideologies, which eventually fell away. And a title fight ensued between Communism vs Fascism vs Democratic Capitalism.
This century likewise may eventually reduce to Woke Capital vs Communist Capital vs Crypto Capital.
PS: I understand this view, but the only surviving ideologies will be those optimized for constant information war.
Wokes have decentralized censorship.
The Chinese have centralized censorship.
And Crypto has decentralized censorship-resistance.
The Counter-Decentralization includes ideological & technological measures by centralized states to fend off Decentralization. Xi Jinping Thought is like China's version of wokeness, American social media censorship is the US version of the Great Firewall.
@bariweiss has put together perhaps the most substantive public discussion yet between the crypto and fiat communities — represented by me and @profplum99 respectively.
The idea that inflation favors the digital world isn’t one I had fully put together till recently.
Basically, a rise in commodity prices is passed through to all physical products. If oil soars, flights are more expensive. But Zoom’s marginal costs don’t increase as much.
- Bootstrap avatar from someone’s photos, audio, and videos
- Implement some kind of speech2text
- Integrate GPT-3 for dynamic conversation
- Add scripts for various moods: working out, focus, etc
Nothing here is impossible, but getting it polished is hard.
Then there’s another version, which is the AI influencer life coach. Train on their podcasts and text and video. Ask for advice at any time.
Maybe the influencer themselves gets a cut for use of their likeness?