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[Linkpost] “MAGA populists call for holy war against Big Tech” by Remmelt


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Geoffrey Miller was handed the mic and started berating one of the panelists: Shyam Sankar, the chief technology officer of Palantir, who is in charge of the company's AI efforts.

“I argue that the AI industry shares virtually no ideological overlap with national conservatism,” Miller said, referring to the conference's core ideology. Hours ago, Miller, a psychology professor at the University of New Mexico, had been on that stage for a panel called “AI and the American Soul,” calling for the populists to wage a literal holy war against artificial intelligence developers “as betrayers of our species, traitors to our nation, apostates to our faith, and threats to our kids.” Now, he stared right at the technologist who’d just given a speech arguing that tech founders were just as heroic as the Founding Fathers, who are sacred figures to the natcons. The [...]

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September 8th, 2025

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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TiQGC6woDMPJ9zbNM/maga-populists-call-for-holy-war-against-big-tech

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https://www.theverge.com/politics/773154/maga-tech-right-ai-natcon

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