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David Culley @[email protected] · 2026-03-23 · 19:29 UTC

Longtermism (L) is a continuation of effective altruism: It assumes that humanity will succeed in colonizing the entire universe or creating virtual worlds that would then contain unimaginable numbers of posthumans. Under these assumptions, it would create much more total "value" in the universe if today's limited resources would be spent to the benefit of these future posthumans that will only be born in billions or even trillions of years from now, than to the benefit of the humans living today. Believers claim to aim to positively affect the greatest number of people possible. In this belief system, most people who could exist, will exist in the far, far future. Believers argue that humanity should stop focusing on currently living people and their contemporary problems, unless it would influence the distant future, because this approach is a suboptimal use of resources on the mission to maximize total value. Humanity should instead focus on what would benefit the population in the far, far future, which adds more total value to the universe due to the unimaginably larger number of people in the future population. This suspiciously somehow always seems to coincide with what benefits billionaires today.

Representatives of each toxic ideology have been platformed on the #LexFridman podcast. From Ray Kurzweil to Nick Bostrom to Ben Goertzel to Eliezer Yudkowsky to William MacAskill to Elon Musk.

I've watched colleages fall victim to these toxic ideologies because they didn't understand them. They naively and cluelessly thought of Lex Fridman as a role model and an intelligent, disciplined bigger brother who is good at playing guitar and martial arts. They'd thought the platformed guests were just random people with interesting ideas, rather than a concerted effort to spread these toxic ideologies among young (and not so young) men.

And I haven't even mentioned effective accelerationism or figures like Guillaume Verdon or Marc Andreessen yet. They want to maximize the likelihood of the realization of AGI (see singularitarianism) by turning the knobs of capitalism to eleven. And everyone should know this means fascism.

Sources: The TESCREAL paper and the relevant Wikipedia pages

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#lexfridman #tescreal #capitalism #fascism

David Culley @davidculley · 2026-03-23 · 19:29 UTC

Longtermism (L) is a continuation of effective altruism: It assumes that humanity will succeed in colonizing the entire universe or creating virtual worlds that would then contain unimaginable numbers of posthumans. Under these assumptions, it would create much more total "value" in the universe if today's limited resources would be spent to the benefit of these future posthumans that will only be born in billions or even trillions of years from now, than to the benefit of the humans living today. Believers claim to aim to positively affect the greatest number of people possible. In this belief system, most people who could exist, will exist in the far, far future. Believers argue that humanity should stop focusing on currently living people and their contemporary problems, unless it would influence the distant future, because this approach is a suboptimal use of resources on the mission to maximize total value. Humanity should instead focus on what would benefit the population in the far, far future, which adds more total value to the universe due to the unimaginably larger number of people in the future population. This suspiciously somehow always seems to coincide with what benefits billionaires today.

Representatives of each toxic ideology have been platformed on the #LexFridman podcast. From Ray Kurzweil to Nick Bostrom to Ben Goertzel to Eliezer Yudkowsky to William MacAskill to Elon Musk.

I've watched colleages fall victim to these toxic ideologies because they didn't understand them. They naively and cluelessly thought of Lex Fridman as a role model and an intelligent, disciplined bigger brother who is good at playing guitar and martial arts. They'd thought the platformed guests were just random people with interesting ideas, rather than a concerted effort to spread these toxic ideologies among young (and not so young) men.

And I haven't even mentioned effective accelerationism or figures like Guillaume Verdon or Marc Andreessen yet. They want to maximize the likelihood of the realization of AGI (see singularitarianism) by turning the knobs of capitalism to eleven. And everyone should know this means fascism.

Sources: The TESCREAL paper and the relevant Wikipedia pages

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#lexfridman #tescreal #capitalism #fascism

David Culley @[email protected] · 2026-03-23 · 19:29 UTC

Longtermism (L) is a continuation of effective altruism: It assumes that humanity will succeed in colonizing the entire universe or creating virtual worlds that would then contain unimaginable numbers of posthumans. Under these assumptions, it would create much more total "value" in the universe if today's limited resources would be spent to the benefit of these future posthumans that will only be born in billions or even trillions of years from now, than to the benefit of the humans living today. Believers claim to aim to positively affect the greatest number of people possible. In this belief system, most people who could exist, will exist in the far, far future. Believers argue that humanity should stop focusing on currently living people and their contemporary problems, unless it would influence the distant future, because this approach is a suboptimal use of resources on the mission to maximize total value. Humanity should instead focus on what would benefit the population in the far, far future, which adds more total value to the universe due to the unimaginably larger number of people in the future population. This suspiciously somehow always seems to coincide with what benefits billionaires today.

Representatives of each toxic ideology have been platformed on the #LexFridman podcast. From Ray Kurzweil to Nick Bostrom to Ben Goertzel to Eliezer Yudkowsky to William MacAskill to Elon Musk.

I've watched colleages fall victim to these toxic ideologies because they didn't understand them. They naively and cluelessly thought of Lex Fridman as a role model and an intelligent, disciplined bigger brother who is good at playing guitar and martial arts. They'd thought the platformed guests were just random people with interesting ideas, rather than a concerted effort to spread these toxic ideologies among young (and not so young) men.

And I haven't even mentioned effective accelerationism or figures like Guillaume Verdon or Marc Andreessen yet. They want to maximize the likelihood of the realization of AGI (see singularitarianism) by turning the knobs of capitalism to eleven. And everyone should know this means fascism.

Sources: The TESCREAL paper and the relevant Wikipedia pages

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#lexfridman #tescreal #capitalism #fascism

Walt Mankowski @[email protected] · 2026-01-26 · 00:10 UTC

@lexfri Patriots? Super Bowl? What are you even talking about? The NFL season ended 2 weeks ago! #GoBirds

#gobirds

David Culley @[email protected] · 2026-01-14 · 18:29 UTC

> I will definitely read your post and I will form my opinion about him.

Thank you.

> Have a good day.

Thank you.

> Surely I published that not to promote any of these terrible things you mentioned, but because I found the story about undiscovered tribes and huge anacondas interesting.

I get that and I believe you, and three years after my personal breaking point where I finally couldn't but accept who Lex Fridman truly is, I still struggle with that point. I watched the first episode with Rosolie and found it super interesting, and would like to see more if only I wouldn't be supporting Fridman that way, so I get you.

Please read this article to know what I mean and learn where I come from:
https://www.businessinsider.com/lex-fridman-podcast-anti-woke-elon-musk-ai

I love everything science and up until three years ago, I watched almost every episode. After I could no longer justify how Lex can remain friends with Musk, even in 2023, and even become friends with Mark Zuckerberg—I couldn't give Lex the benefit of the doubt anymore—I struggled and was in denial for a while. For years, I had watched almost all of his episodes, so it felt somewhat like part of my identity … that I now needed to let go off, when I finally accepted that Lex is playing us for fools with his both-sideism.

Analogy: When I learn that my favorite bar is owned by a Hell's Angel, I won't go there anymore, not even for a public viewing of the soccer world championship. Not even when that bar has the biggest TVs and best beer in town. Because going there would legitimize that bar. That's how I see it. Same with random interesting episodes from a podcast that shouldn't be legitimized.

#lexfridman

David Culley @[email protected] · 2026-01-14 · 18:29 UTC

> I will definitely read your post and I will form my opinion about him.

Thank you.

> Have a good day.

Thank you.

> Surely I published that not to promote any of these terrible things you mentioned, but because I found the story about undiscovered tribes and huge anacondas interesting.

I get that and I believe you, and three years after my personal breaking point where I finally couldn't but accept who Lex Fridman truly is, I still struggle with that point. I watched the first episode with Rosolie and found it super interesting, and would like to see more if only I wouldn't be supporting Fridman that way, so I get you.

Please read this article to know what I mean and learn where I come from:
https://www.businessinsider.com/lex-fridman-podcast-anti-woke-elon-musk-ai

I love everything science and up until three years ago, I watched almost every episode. After I could no longer justify how Lex can remain friends with Musk, even in 2023, and even become friends with Mark Zuckerberg—I couldn't give Lex the benefit of the doubt anymore—I struggled and was in denial for a while. For years, I had watched almost all of his episodes, so it felt somewhat like part of my identity … that I now needed to let go off, when I finally accepted that Lex is playing us for fools with his both-sideism.

Analogy: When I learn that my favorite bar is owned by a Hell's Angel, I won't go there anymore, not even for a public viewing of the soccer world championship. Not even when that bar has the biggest TVs and best beer in town. Because going there would legitimize that bar. That's how I see it. Same with random interesting episodes from a podcast that shouldn't be legitimized.

#lexfridman

David Culley @davidculley · 2026-01-14 · 18:29 UTC

> I will definitely read your post and I will form my opinion about him.

Thank you.

> Have a good day.

Thank you.

> Surely I published that not to promote any of these terrible things you mentioned, but because I found the story about undiscovered tribes and huge anacondas interesting.

I get that and I believe you, and three years after my personal breaking point where I finally couldn't but accept who Lex Fridman truly is, I still struggle with that point. I watched the first episode with Rosolie and found it super interesting, and would like to see more if only I wouldn't be supporting Fridman that way, so I get you.

Please read this article to know what I mean and learn where I come from:
https://www.businessinsider.com/lex-fridman-podcast-anti-woke-elon-musk-ai

I love everything science and up until three years ago, I watched almost every episode. After I could no longer justify how Lex can remain friends with Musk, even in 2023, and even become friends with Mark Zuckerberg—I couldn't give Lex the benefit of the doubt anymore—I struggled and was in denial for a while. For years, I had watched almost all of his episodes, so it felt somewhat like part of my identity … that I now needed to let go off, when I finally accepted that Lex is playing us for fools with his both-sideism.

Analogy: When I learn that my favorite bar is owned by a Hell's Angel, I won't go there anymore, not even for a public viewing of the soccer world championship. Not even when that bar has the biggest TVs and best beer in town. Because going there would legitimize that bar. That's how I see it. Same with random interesting episodes from a podcast that shouldn't be legitimized.

#lexfridman

David Culley @[email protected] · 2026-01-14 · 18:29 UTC

> I will definitely read your post and I will form my opinion about him.

Thank you.

> Have a good day.

Thank you.

> Surely I published that not to promote any of these terrible things you mentioned, but because I found the story about undiscovered tribes and huge anacondas interesting.

I get that and I believe you, and three years after my personal breaking point where I finally couldn't but accept who Lex Fridman truly is, I still struggle with that point. I watched the first episode with Rosolie and found it super interesting, and would like to see more if only I wouldn't be supporting Fridman that way, so I get you.

Please read this article to know what I mean and learn where I come from:
https://www.businessinsider.com/lex-fridman-podcast-anti-woke-elon-musk-ai

I love everything science and up until three years ago, I watched almost every episode. After I could no longer justify how Lex can remain friends with Musk, even in 2023, and even become friends with Mark Zuckerberg—I couldn't give Lex the benefit of the doubt anymore—I struggled and was in denial for a while. For years, I had watched almost all of his episodes, so it felt somewhat like part of my identity … that I now needed to let go off, when I finally accepted that Lex is playing us for fools with his both-sideism.

Analogy: When I learn that my favorite bar is owned by a Hell's Angel, I won't go there anymore, not even for a public viewing of the soccer world championship. Not even when that bar has the biggest TVs and best beer in town. Because going there would legitimize that bar. That's how I see it. Same with random interesting episodes from a podcast that shouldn't be legitimized.

#lexfridman

David Culley @[email protected] · 2026-01-14 · 18:29 UTC

> I will definitely read your post and I will form my opinion about him.

Thank you.

> Have a good day.

Thank you.

> Surely I published that not to promote any of these terrible things you mentioned, but because I found the story about undiscovered tribes and huge anacondas interesting.

I get that and I believe you, and three years after my personal breaking point where I finally couldn't but accept who Lex Fridman truly is, I still struggle with that point. I watched the first episode with Rosolie and found it super interesting, and would like to see more if only I wouldn't be supporting Fridman that way, so I get you.

Please read this article to know what I mean and learn where I come from:
https://www.businessinsider.com/lex-fridman-podcast-anti-woke-elon-musk-ai

I love everything science and up until three years ago, I watched almost every episode. After I could no longer justify how Lex can remain friends with Musk, even in 2023, and even become friends with Mark Zuckerberg—I couldn't give Lex the benefit of the doubt anymore—I struggled and was in denial for a while. For years, I had watched almost all of his episodes, so it felt somewhat like part of my identity … that I now needed to let go off, when I finally accepted that Lex is playing us for fools with his both-sideism.

Analogy: When I learn that my favorite bar is owned by a Hell's Angel, I won't go there anymore, not even for a public viewing of the soccer world championship. Not even when that bar has the biggest TVs and best beer in town. Because going there would legitimize that bar. That's how I see it. Same with random interesting episodes from a podcast that shouldn't be legitimized.

#lexfridman

David Culley @[email protected] · 2026-01-14 · 17:54 UTC

@pawelgrzybek Hi Paweł, I discovered you through the #neovim hashtag and enjoy your Neovim tips. I also enjoy your keyboard-related content as I use a ZSA Moonlander myself.

But I wish you would take this following post of mine to heart (and all my other posts I tagged with #LexFridman).

Mentioned post: https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/115892790934745772

All tagged posts: https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/tagged/LexFridman

I wrote them with my ex-coworkers in mind who are still big fans of Fridman, like I was up until three years ago. I ended contact with them because I won't be friends with people who align their thinking with a friend of Musk, Trump's daughter, Rogan, and other fascist figures. Even if that friend of fascist figures mixes interesting episodes like those with Rosolie in-between his platforming of fascists like Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump, JFK Jr., Balaji Srinivasan, Jordan Peterson, and many more. Lex willingly and intentionally contributed to get Trump elected.

Of course I can't command you what to do, but I will unfollow you if I keep seeing my fascism-legitimizing ex-coworkers in you. Your neovim tips aren't important enough to me that I couldn't do without them, as good as they are.

P.S. I write this because I enjoy your content and share your interests and would like to avoid unfollowing you. If I thought you were a fascist and promoted fascism intentionally, I would've just blocked you instead of trying to convince you to see what I see.