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[@mattsheffield](/creator/twitter/mattsheffield)
"4/ Believing in secret pedophiles running the show for their own benefit isn't just a way of avoiding accountability within reactionary Christianity it's also a way of absolving Republican elites of their decades of creating policies that hurt Republican voters"  
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"The similarities between reactionary anti-epistemology and LLM hallucinations are many. There's a reason that AI without factual alignment requirements descends into fascism. Reactionary raging is the path of least resistance linguistically. It's basal epistemology"  
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"@kalihollowayftw It is absurd but this sort of expert dialogue with uninformed people is absolutely necessary in the age of everyone having a half-baked opinion about anything"  
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"Oklahoma's public schools are 49th in the country in achievement. So naturally the Republican state superintendent is asking PragerU to set up a loyalty test meant to weed out "woke" teachers--even as he's facing an instructor shortage"  
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"8/ The psychological state of the thinker is the main barrier between authoritarianism & conservatism. But chatbots have no psychological state. Thus when you remove safeguards to promote some irrational beliefs (such as anti-trans bigotry) you eventually end w/MechaHitler"  
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"2/ This episode is also related to Elon Musk's chatbot Grok going into a "MechaHitler" rant. Reactionaries have built an anti-epistemology and the leaders sometimes can't control it"  
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"5/ Right-wing thinking is an anti-epistemology that doesn't just tell lies it discredits how one can actually find truth. This is where Grok comes in. Like many reactionaries Elon Musk believes things he knows subconsciously to be false"  
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"9/ By the same token the Trump administration uncharacteristically urging rational thinking about the Epstein files is entering the base which needs to believe in omnipotent pedophiles to avoid moral and intellectual accountability. /end Lots more"  
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"1/ Donald Trump's obsessive defensiveness about Jeffrey Epstein is causing a deep rupture within his far-right base. It's an echo of the last time this happened when he tried to tell MAGA to get vaccinated. They didn't listen. Link in next post🧵"  
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"Far too often anti-Trump politicians and commentators suppose that making policy concessions to the reactionary right will make the issue go away. But for authoritarians the issue is never the issue. And this is certainly true w/immigration:"  
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"Trump Epstein and machine epistemology my latest:"  
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