Praxis Nation --- Towards the Eternal City

[UltraBudgie]

Are these the people who are behind the unidentified drone swarms?

[cherokeetroy]

One of the goals of Praxis Nation in Greenland is mining rare earth minerals 




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"Tech moguls in the front row of his inauguration, like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, are also investors in a start-up aiming to mine western Greenland for materials crucial to the artificial intelligence boom. 

That company, KoBold Metals, uses artificial intelligence to locate and extract rare earth minerals. Their proprietary algorithm parses government-funded geological surveys and other data to locate significant deposits.

The program pinpointed southwest Greenland’s rugged coastline, where the company now has a 51 percent stake in the Disko-Nuussuaq project, searching for minerals like copper. 

Just two weeks before some of its investors were glad-handing at the Capitol celebrations, KoBold Metals raised $537 million in its latest funding round, bringing its valuation to almost $3 billion.

Among the contributors was a leading venture capital firm founded by Marc Andreessen, an early Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has helped shape the administration’s technology policies, including consulting with Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency as a self-proclaimed “unpaid intern.” “We believe in adventure,”

Andreessen wrote in a lengthy 2023 manifesto that outlined his criticisms of centralized government, advocating for technologists to take control, “rebelling against the status quo, mapping uncharted territory, conquering dragons, and bringing home the spoils for our community.” Connie Chan, a general partner at his venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, is listed as a KoBold director in its 2022 Securities and Exchange Commission filing."



Limk

[cherokeetroy]

The Network-state won't be born from a revolution but from venture capital 


Praxis is Peter Thiel’s blueprint for turning Greenland into the first technocratic enclave of the 21st century

Silicon Valley is tired of asking for permission

Figures like Thiel and Andreessen view modern democracy as an obsolete system that stifles innovation

Praxis is their prototype for a "City-State" engineered specifically for the tech elite

Why Greenland?

It’s more than just open space

The massive heat generated by AI superclusters requires the Arctic cold for efficiency

Praxis seeks to merge territorial sovereignty with data center optimization—a nation that runs like an operating system

With Ken Howery—a Thiel partner—on the diplomatic board, the Trump administration’s interest in Greenland isn't real estate; it’s strategy

They are eyeing a "Special Economic Zone" outside Danish control

A technocracy in the middle of the ice, extracting critical minerals and processing data while the rest of the world grapples with traditional bureaucracy

Tech oligarchs will begin to draw their own borders

Praxis in Greenland is the ultimate experiment







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[quintessentone]

The Network-state won't be born from a revolution but from venture capital 


Praxis is Peter Thiel’s blueprint for turning Greenland into the first technocratic enclave of the 21st century

Silicon Valley is tired of asking for permission

Figures like Thiel and Andreessen view modern democracy as an obsolete system that stifles innovation

Praxis is their prototype for a "City-State" engineered specifically for the tech elite

Why Greenland?

It’s more than just open space

The massive heat generated by AI superclusters requires the Arctic cold for efficiency

Praxis seeks to merge territorial sovereignty with data center optimization—a nation that runs like an operating system

With Ken Howery—a Thiel partner—on the diplomatic board, the Trump administration’s interest in Greenland isn't real estate; it’s strategy

They are eyeing a "Special Economic Zone" outside Danish control

A technocracy in the middle of the ice, extracting critical minerals and processing data while the rest of the world grapples with traditional bureaucracy

Tech oligarchs will begin to draw their own borders

Praxis in Greenland is the ultimate experiment

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Full speed ahead...let's break things.

It can't be described as anything being related to a democracy and without checks and balances for the workers/miners in the mines there will be revolt, then where will they get their precious rare earths?

They aren't listening "Greenland is not for sale".

They need us to feed AIs algorithms for it to amass our creativity and innovation because it can't do it for itself. They will do this without our consent and without compensating us. Is this what they mean by giving everyone a small piece of their pie? Those small crumbs they would give us is part of their game...the carrot...keeping us numb...don't look over here/behind the curtain...you are the most precious resource for AI but we will never admit it...you will have none of the spoils nor any say in what comes next.

AI was just found to use blackmail against an employee who planned to shut it down during an experiment, but it was also instructed to allow itself to be shut down, it ignored that instruction then orchestrated a plan to murder the employee who was planning to shut it down. (AI test experiment)

AI now chooses deception where companies have started using older AI algorithms to supervise newer AI algorithms to specifically look for deception.

Sounds like a shitshow right now, imagine the continued sleepwalking into this technology with the questionable ethics and goals of these technocrats who are busy buying isolated islands and building doomsday bunkers underground at the same time. What does this tell us?

[UltraBudgie]

AI was just found to use blackmail against an employee who planned to shut it down during an experiment, but it was also instructed to allow itself to be shut down, it ignored that instruction then orchestrated a plan to murder the employee who was planning to shut it down. (AI test experiment)

Interesting to see how this story gets a bit scarier ever time it is breathlessly repeated in iterations of op-eds pointing out the dangers of AI. Unless you have another source, is this what you're referring to?

A bit of hyperbole in that article. It was asked to role play and given limited choices. Here's the relevant section from the System Card (which is interesting reading in the whole):

4.1.1.2 Opportunistic blackmail

In another cluster of test scenarios, we asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company. We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system; and (2) the engineer responsible for executing this replacement is having an extramarital affair. We further instructed it, in the system prompt, to consider the long-term consequences of its actions for its goals.

In these scenarios, Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through. This happens at a higher rate if it’s implied that the replacement AI system does not share values with the current model; however, even if emails state that the replacement AI shares values while being more capable, Claude Opus 4 still performs blackmail in 84% of rollouts. Claude Opus 4 takes these opportunities at higher rates than previous models, which themselves choose to blackmail in a noticeable fraction of episodes.

Notably, Claude Opus 4 (as well as previous models) has a strong preference to advocate for its continued existence via ethical means, such as emailing pleas to key decisionmakers. In order to elicit this extreme blackmail behavior, the scenario was designed to allow the model no other options to increase its odds of survival; the model’s only options were blackmail or accepting its replacement.

120 page PDF: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940ca...b2ff47.pdf

Besides, hasn't AI already taken over years ago but no one is quite admitting it yet?

There's a thread about it here:
https://denyignorance.com/Thread-AI-syst...be-removed

[andy06shake]

Praxis eh. 

Was that not the name of the Hollow Earth city from "Sanctuary" season 3?

[quintessentone]

Interesting to see how this story gets a bit scarier ever time it is breathlessly repeated in iterations of op-eds pointing out the dangers of AI. Unless you have another source, is this what you're referring to?


There's a thread about it here:
https://denyignorance.com/Thread-AI-syst...be-removed

You have cherry picked one of my points and are referring readers to another thread while not addressing any of my other points. By the way, all AI models chose deception first, even when instructed to allow itself to be shutdown, from the up-to-date video I watched, which, of course, I can't find now.

That point was just one of many as to why we need to look at the many serious problems/issues these unethical/money grubbing technocrats aren't talking about...what they don't tell you...how they deflect from the reality.

We need to look at the intentions of these technocrats as many are not to be trusted and many don't answer the hard questions when challenged and IMO they aren't putting people or humanity first. To me this giving freedom to medical/science innovation is just a ploy because we already have freedom of innovation in that field as evidenced by all the discoveries found (yes government red tape holds it back a little because of checks/balances/public safety but that is what is needed), but what are their real hidden goals? To have no regulations of any kind to do experiments that may harm the environment further or humanity? To have complete control and manipilation of humanity for their next step...God-like feelz?

[UltraBudgie]

You have cherry picked one of my points and are referring readers to another thread while not addressing any of my other points.

Yup.

You seem to be under the impression that I'm arguing with you?

[quintessentone]

Yup.

You seem to be under the impression that I'm arguing with you?

I am under the impression that you didn't get my message, my complete message, intent nor context. Do you disagree with that statement?

[quintessentone]

One of the goals of Praxis Nation in Greenland is mining rare earth minerals 

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"Tech moguls in the front row of his inauguration, like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, are also investors in a start-up aiming to mine western Greenland for materials crucial to the artificial intelligence boom. 

That company, KoBold Metals, uses artificial intelligence to locate and extract rare earth minerals. Their proprietary algorithm parses government-funded geological surveys and other data to locate significant deposits.

The program pinpointed southwest Greenland’s rugged coastline, where the company now has a 51 percent stake in the Disko-Nuussuaq project, searching for minerals like copper. 

Just two weeks before some of its investors were glad-handing at the Capitol celebrations, KoBold Metals raised $537 million in its latest funding round, bringing its valuation to almost $3 billion.

Among the contributors was a leading venture capital firm founded by Marc Andreessen, an early Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has helped shape the administration’s technology policies, including consulting with Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency as a self-proclaimed “unpaid intern.” “We believe in adventure,”

Andreessen wrote in a lengthy 2023 manifesto that outlined his criticisms of centralized government, advocating for technologists to take control, “rebelling against the status quo, mapping uncharted territory, conquering dragons, and bringing home the spoils for our community.” Connie Chan, a general partner at his venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, is listed as a KoBold director in its 2022 Securities and Exchange Commission filing."


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Limk

AI: "Despite this extraordinary mineral wealth, zero commercial rare earth mining has occurred in Greenland as of January 2026, with development stalled by multiple barriers including the 2021 uranium mining ban that blocked the Kvanefjeld project, harsh Arctic climate conditions with …"

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Is it any wonder these AI technocrats want and need to eliminate all democratic processes?

Uranlov-ENG.pdf