Interview recorded February 2021.
Robert Stark interviews futurist writer Michael Anissimov about artificial intelligence, NRx politics, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Michael Anissimov is a San Francisco Bay Area native of White Russian émigré decent now living in Florida. Michael worked for the Singularity Institute where he co-founded the Singularity Summit and is the author of the Idaho Project, A Critique of Democracy: A Guide for Neoreactionaries, Our Accelerating Future: How Superintelligence, Nanotechnology, and Transhumanism Will Transform the Planet, and has an upcoming book on the dissident right.
Topics:
Michael’s background, interest in transhumanism and artificial intelligence, and political evolutionPotential impacts of artificial intelligence on inequality and the liberal worldviewWhy the post scarcity economy (Fully Automated Luxury Communism) is a long ways awayThe Bay Area futurist scene and the Gray TribeThe demographic and class dynamics of the San Francisco Bay AreaThe trend of demographic fragmentation into enclavism/neo-tribalism and end of the mythos of AmericaThe economic strategy of diversityThoughts on the election, civil unrest, crackdown on the right, and alt-techThe politics of acceleration vs. boiling frog theory