'Altman’s OpenAI became the first affiliate of YC Research (YCR). The various YCR projects were then calved off by Altman, eventually into OpenResearch. Among its many disruptive projects, OpenResearch ran the US’ largest ever trial of Universal Basic Income (UBI). There is no point being coy. We can be certain where all this is heading. Writing for Unlimited Hangout, researcher and journalist Stavroula Pabst pointed out the pitfalls of UBI by examining Altman’s Worldcoin project. Worldcoin was the product of the OpenResearch UBI trials in the US. In order to access Worldcoin, “customers” have to submit their biometric identifier—iris scans—to the Praxians. Once the Praxians have created your digital “value”—there is no other kind in the Praxian universe—your digital identity is fixed to your programmable “money”, which you receive into your Praxian-approved digital wallet in the form of the founder’s Worldcoin. The public-private state doling out supposedly “free money” (UBI) may seem like an appealing idea for some. It is never free. Pabst observed, “Worldcoin uses smart contracts, digital infrastructure key to currency programmability.” Thus, receipt of your Worldcoin UBI will be conditional. All your spending will be programmed, and your behaviour can and will be controlled. This vice-like behavioural control of populations is at the heart of Praxian ideology.'
Etienne de la Boetie2 | https://substack.com/@artofliberty In this two-part article series [part 2 not released yet], Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve their goal of a multipolar world of interconnected smart-city states; that is, a regionalised world that they and their oligarch partners will rule as neofeudal monarchs. In Part 1, Davis focuses on the deceit this oligarch network is using to drag us all to ruin and how it is controlling the Trump administration, whilst Part 2 will focus on their neocolonial ambitions in the Middle East. Iain Davis | UnlimitedHangout.com | IainDavis.com In my latest book, The Technocratic Dark State, I explore the influence of a powerful collective of Silicon Valley oligarchs. These oligarchs, as we shall see, have captured and now effectively control the second Trump administration. They like to go by many names: accelerationists, neoreactionaries, technocrats, the …