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Culture War Roundup for the week of June 8, 2026

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even more gay race communism now

At this point I would prefer to be ruled by the pink haired feminist communists than the AI techbros.

"They're the same picture."

I kid a bit. But not very much. Died hair, pride flags on chat flairs and hung on a couple walls, way more transwomen than you'd think, ICE warnings on group chats. We got it all in my office building. I'm not an AI techbro but I work for a major tech company.

I'd still take the AI techbros, you're likely looking back to the feminist communists with rose tinted glasses.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” -- CS Lewis

I always wondered if Lewis considered the ultimate application that quote automatically suggests, being a card-carrying believer in the most supremely omnipotent moral busybody of all. I feel like the benevolent deity who fails to understand the wants and needs of His subjects is a somewhat exhausted trope now, but was it already back then?

If this was an old forum that quote would be in my signature.

You can always add a flair under settings. Of course, people will only see it if they click on your profile, and you’re limited to 100 characters, but you could at least remind some people that “It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”

You can always add a flair under settings. Of course, people will only see it if they click on your profile, and you’re limited to 100 characters

You're mixing up two different features.

  • Your flair shows up next to your username at all times, but is limited to 100 characters.

  • Your bio has a much higher limit of 1500 characters, but shows up only when someone clicks on your username.

@zoink

Thanks! You were actually the one I had in mind as I wrote that, as I have always found your flair quite memorable.

I can imagine a AI post scarcity possibility. The communists will just never work if they ever get meaningful power.

AI bros also have lower downside, though. Communists winning would likely only result in deaths in the order of 10s-100s of millions, maybe a billion or two, but likely not more. AI bros winning could mean literally every last human dead, or perhaps even worse, their consciousness stuck in eternity in a hell simulator.

I think AI bros still win out in terms of expected value, though.

aren't we scrathcing St. Petersburg paradox territory here?

Is that a realistic outcome? I could say that Communists winning could mean nuclear bombs in space and sun death and the blow-up of the entire galaxy. Maybe Communists winning means all our consciousnesses stuck in eternity in a hell simulator, plus one.

Communism is a hell simulator, but at least you get to die (sometimes pretty quickly).

I'm pretty bad at making predictions, especially about the future, but a lot of people in AI seem to think that the odds of AI development leading to human extinction is at least in single digit percentage odds, which is high enough to be concerning. Communists could likely build rockets and simulators, but I'm skeptical that such tech progress is likely in a Communist-run world before we're brought back to some post-apocalypse situation or just boring stasis in some barely tolerable dystopia. Certainly I'd bet that inventing immortal consciousness that can suffer for eternity seems far more likely in an AI bro world than a communist one. In the latter, the suffering would only last about a lifetime, and in the real world.

A hard nope from me, but yeah, it's a South Park-esque douche vs turd contest.

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