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Havocyesterday at 2:27 AM2 repliesview on HN

Weird - that's the 2nd mention of "Technate" I see in 24 hrs - never heard of that before today.

(Other instance was PredictiveHistory‬ youtube here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk ).

Guessing that's not a coincidence


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oa335yesterday at 7:50 PM

Also noticed that… another consequence of convergence of culture due to algorithmic management of attention?

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y-c-o-m-byesterday at 4:44 PM

I watch his channel regularly mostly for entertainment and to help form my own thoughts and opinions on the subject matter relative to other sources. I do think some of his content is accurate and useful, but a lot of it isn't. I've caught him regurgitating conspiracy threads from reddit in his teachings on more than one occasion. I think he reads those threads and possibly uses AI to design the topics around them along with a dose of some cursory research into those subjects. I'm guessing he got the term "Technate" off of reddit as well, as I've seen it mentioned there.

EDIT: looks like it might be based off this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement#The_techn...

It's probably influenced by findings after Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin conspiracies started spiking in popularity in recent months

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