Remain In Hell Without Despair on Mythryl: “The increasingly decadent global oligarchy seriously believes in…”

The increasingly decadent global oligarchy seriously believes in Triumph of the Will, aka the Power of Positive Thinking, aka Prosperity Gospel, aka magick. It works in the same way Wile E. Coyote can defy gravity until he looks down.

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social

"In 2019, as Sam Altman was leaving his role leading the tech incubator Y Combinator to become CEO of OpenAI, he wrote a blog post extolling the virtue in founders with “too much self belief … almost to the point of delusion.” We need to ask why we as a society keep getting got, and how to stop.

26/10/26, 7:36 pm5 reposts13 likes

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