Where Did Tech Bros Get Their Ideas From?

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In this video I summarize a narrative of how Tech Bros in these modern AI companies got their reactionary tendencies, specifically focused on how the history of political propaganda in science and the systemic ignoring of Félix Guattari enabled this highly reactionary movement to proliferate unchallenged.

Edit: I want to make clear that while Chomsky's immature behavior contributed to the landscape that lead to accelerationists proliferating, he's not like, an evil person or anything. Extremely immature, and angering because of what damage he did to people researching the French. But it's not like he's on the same level as Bricmont or Singer on actually evil level. I thought I made this clear due to the more light hearted tone of that part of the video but some people seem to feel that wasn't clear.

0:00 Notes
0:13 Introduction
3:47 Accelerationists Don't Understand Deleuze & Guattari
8:55 Science, Anti-Leftism and the Cold War
15:18 Richard Dawkins' Philosophical Development
23:33 Noam Chomsky and the French
30:53 Jean Bricmont
36:19 Deleuzians, Nick Land and the Internet
45:17 Codes Run on Machines
51:14 Peter Singer's Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm
58:16 The Effective Altruism Movement
1:05:56 The Machine It's Running On - Faciality

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