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The leadership dictates sometimes in great detail how members should think, act, and feel (for example: members must get permission from leaders to date, change jobs, get married; leaders may prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, how to discipline children, and so forth).
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Émile P. Torres
This is all a kind of vulgar Thatcherism. Margaret Thatcher's mantra was "There is no alternative." She repeated this so often they called her "TINA" Thatcher: There. Is. No. Alternative. TINA.
"There is no alternative" is a cheap rhetorical slight. It's a demand dressed up as an observation. "There is no alternative" means "STOP TRYING TO THINK OF AN ALTERNATIVE." Which, you know, *fuck that*.
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI
pluralistic.net
The disaster of history is the incessant pacification of all that resists. In fact, we have no interest in producing something that would only be a new program to police straying bodies, proliferate “proper” images of thought, or peddle updated categories of surveillable subjects. Philosophy, as we understand it, is the conceptual proliferation of theoretical weapons aimed at the order of things. Anything else is mere collaboration.
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