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We wanted superintelligence; we got Elon gooning on the TL

Want a smart kid? Best I can do is kill your other ones

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Johann Kurtz
Aug 12, 2025
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We wanted superintelligence; we got Elon gooning on the TL.

The fate of Elon is a microcosm of the challenge to humanity in the 21st century: summoning the will to transcend ‘slop tech’.

Slop tech is everywhere: a problem identified by Peter Thiel with his formulation “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters". With the rise of ‘embryo repor…

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