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Thiel vs EA (let them fight.gif)
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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
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When reading the title, I thought it was Peter Thiel vs. Electronic Arts, but wouldn't be surprised if the neoreactionary billionaires wanted to invest even more into entertainment media, to loosen up the masses for an undemocratic world with 24/7 ever present surveillance.
Not an EA franchise, but in retrospect it was probably a bad sign that Assassin's Creed started going deep on "maybe the Templar shadow government that rules everyone in secret is actually not that bad?" or "no, actually some of the ancient aliens who enslaved all humanity were good and it was just the one cartoon villain that was bad."
Like, I think there's some thematic depth to looking at how in order to combat the evil shadow cult government the Assassins "had to" become a "good" shadow cult government, but as the man once said you do not, in fact, have to give it to them.