The advertiser fled and reportedly value of X. But Musk didn’t buy Twitter to make money. As Tan says, the real goal was to replace existing institutions with parallel versions. But the word “parallel”, like “moderate”, is not the most appropriate expression.
Naomi Klein (do not have of Other Naomi) coined the term “mirror world” to describe strategies in which things are twisted, turned upside down, or reverse themselves. Consider, for example, how Mr. Musk upended Twitter’s verification blue check system. Among his first actions was stripping experts, journalists, and celebrities of their official positions, changes aimed at elevating the voices of right-wing trolls and flattering subscribers. Met.
If Mr. Tan’s vision matches Mr. Musk’s, it is clear that he is not trying to start a centrist revolution. No, this is clearly an extreme brand of politics, but not necessarily revolutionary. Tech bros like Tan think they are reinventing the entire system and come up with terms like “effective accelerationism” to describe their philosophy. But the ancient Greeks had already named their central idea more than 2,000 years before him. For example: plutocracyor control by the wealthy, and tyranny, ruled by a dictatorship. More recently, Emile P. Torres and Timnit Gebru have used the term tescreal (transhumanism, extropianism, singularism, cosmism, rationalism, effectiveness) to explain the accumulation of esoteric beliefs behind new technological ideologies. I created an acronym called “altruism, long-termism”.