Manning leaked info about wrongdoings that the US military tried to hide. Today we need whistleblowers inside Big Tech who are willing to leak info that can be used to destroy AI companies, because AI is a threat to democracy and humanity, cf Geoffrey Hinton and Eliezer Yudkowsky.
It's crucial that the anti-AI movement - or whatever you want to call it - is not divided by the culture war. Both leftwing and rightwing people should be united in the fight against the machines, because we are all humans. AI is a threat to all of us.
For example, I jokingly say that I'm an irrational lesbian misgenderist, but if a potential whistleblower inside Big Tech is not willing to be part of the anti-AI movement unless I use pronouns in a way that's in harmony with the LGBT community, then I will use pronouns in a manner that is politically correct from a liberal perspective. Because I'm not going to let pronouns stand in the way of defending democracy and saving humanity.
But I'm an hyper-individualist so you can rest assure that I will not obey any group which demands that I comply with their ideology. When dealing with an LGBT individual in the anti-AI movement I'm just doing that which is tactically necessary to facilitate cooperation in our common fight against AI. If a worker inside Big Tech is so fixated on pronouns that he or she will rather be enslaved or killed by AI unless humans use correct pronouns, well, then I'll be the grownup in the room and use any pronoun required to make cooperation easier, because pronouns are just words, unlike AI which is a deadly threat.
Big Business and Big Government are laughing all the way to the bank when leftwing populists and rightwing populists are divided because of culture war issues. It's a classic divide and conquer strategy. Don't fall for it.
Big Tech assumes that many so-called "woke" people are pro-AI, so they will tend to hire these people. The US military is also recruiting LGBT individuals, because the Western military assumes that many LGBT people will be pro-Pentagon if the latter is pro-LGBT, but Chelsea Manning revealed that this assumption is wrong. If AI companies think that it's safe to hire LGBT workers, then it will be easier for a "woke" individual to get access to information that can be used to destroy Big Tech.
I'm anti-woke but I'm willing to cooperate with a person who is 100% woke if that individual is willing to fight AI. I'm very pragmatic that way. Churchill was willing to cooperate with Stalin to defeat Nazi Germany, so I follow the principle that an enemy of my enemy is a friend. I don't even care if woke people are not willing to cooperate with me as long as they do their part to fight AI. Just be a whistleblower. You can do that without cooperating with me, without being part of the so-called anti-AI movement. Fight AI in your own way.
The above logic applies to any other ideology. For example, I'm anti-libertine, but I'm willing to cooperate with a person who is a 100% libertine if he or she wants to join the anti-AI movement. Because we are humans, fighting the machines. After we have destroyed AI, we can go back to focusing mainly on the culture war. Big Tech will maybe develop AGI the next 2-5 years, which means that we don't have time to quarrel about the culture war, because no group will win that war if all humans are enslaved or killed by AI.
Finally, some critics will perhaps accuse me of being fixated on combating AI, but that is not the case. I'm primarily a gamer. If a superintelligent AI or a Big Tech company creates a fully customizable MMORPG that respects true diversity, then I'll be so busy gaming that I don't have time to fight AI, which is a rational standpoint from my perspective because 1) I'm old and have no kids, and 2) I use games to take focus away from the discomfort of narcolepsy, so personally I'll prefer to spend the next 10-20 years on awesome games, basically not caring about what happens on Earth after that, since I'll be dead anyway. Of course, if we get an AGI in the next 2-5 years, then I'm screwed, like the rest of humanity, but the point is that I'm not emotionally attached to fighting AI. The so-called "War on AI" is for me personally just a "game" in a way, a bit like playing the game Terminator: Resistance, fighting "Skynet" but doing it IRL, similar to how one talks about the "Great Game" in political science.
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