Thread by @davetroy

1/Consider that Musk just casually dropped what many are hailing as the most advanced AI system ever, in the form of #ChatGPT.

Consider that Musk and Putin appear to be allied and acting in concert.
politico.com/news/magazine/…

2/Consider that Putin believes that leadership in AI will determine “who rules the world” and that this is a significant part of the concept of #Noosphere, which is behind his policy agenda.

cnbc.com/2017/09/04/put…

3/Here is a detailed piece of (archived) Russian propaganda that outlines the Noosphere concept, and its centrality for Putin.

web.archive.org/web/2021030417…

4/Consider that Musk sees technology like ChatGPT as a tool for “freeing” humanity; or, perhaps, he thinks a significant number of people are simply now superfluous and no longer serve any purpose. And that this will help humanity “evolve,” per his “longtermism.”

5/Consider that Barbara Marx Hubbard, mother of “conscious evolution” proposed eliminating (killing) the 25% of humanity that “could not evolve.” Consider stack-ranking at Twitter to eliminate “poor performers.”

https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1599008704237490176

6/It is unclear whether this presents a real national security risk; but it is arguable that Musk intends to present it as such a challenge, and that Putin is likely cheering it.

So it is appropriate to consider these developments within a framework of geopolitical intentions.

7/If Musk is intending this technology to (further) upend the existing world order (and perhaps it will, in some ways), those intentions should be taken at face value.

We should evaluate both what implications those intentions and alliances have, and appear to them to have.

8/Consider that Musk is intensely interested in ChatGPT’s performance and is also nursing a Trump-like grievance against the @nytimes for not gushing over it.