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This mindset reminded me a lot of the show The Pantheon, which I watched on Netflix recently. Many of the premises of the show were pretty ridiculous and far fetched (even if one could ever scan and create a perfect digital replica of the neural connections in a person’s brain that’s never going to be enough to actually simulate the person’s personality and mind) they did a pretty good job, I think, of showing the narcissistic mindset of elite techbros who believe that this kind of digital immortality is our inevitable future, that they specifically are the ones to bring it to us, and that it must be achieved at all costs, even if countless people are hurt along the way. And at one point another character did a pretty good job explaining why it’s actually important that people die, so that future generations can fully grow up and develop without being held down by the weight of all their ancestors who are still around.
About 25 years ago Ray Kurzweil was a guest speaker at a local university. My father in law was in attendance and said that there was a professor there who knew Kurzweil and loved to needle him by casually saying “you’re going to die, you know” whenever he saw him. Kurzweil was not amused.
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I’ll have to check that out! Similar themes were covered in the series Upload on Amazon:
In addition to the quest for immortality, it also explored the how techbros maintained the class divide and found ways to continue their pursuit of profit and control over others. The series is supposed to conclude later this month, but due to the boycott I won’t be watching it.
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Superintelligence for everyone is the new Metaverse.
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It is frankly crazy how little these motherfuckers hide any of their intent. Somehow we became a civilization that responds to people saying “the pain point of literally everything is the humans in that system” by going “oh yeah he should be in charge of stuff” and not “ok sequestered for life”
Tech bro billionaires will literally announce repeat and continually advocate their full-thrlated intention to eradicate humans except for themselves and yet we can’t say what we should do in response without getting banned/arrested.
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He had ideas?
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One. He stole it. It made him rich.
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I was in Silicon Valley a fair bit in the early 2010s. I wasn’t a resident, but out of five close team members who were residents, I knew there was at least one Christian, a Mormon, a Hindu. I don’t recall any of them trying to hide or downplay their faith. I don’t think “Borderline Illegal” in the headline means what I think it means.
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ummmmm…
Holyfuckwtf…
How. In. The. Fuck. Would. ANYONE. Other. Than. a. Very. Informed. Theologian. KNOWTHEANSWERTOTHISQUESTION…
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I think the point of that is that isn’t meantion Quran by name. One of those gotcha questions. But Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa (Farthest Mosque or Al-Aqsa Mosque) is in there.
Glory be to the One Who took His servant ˹Muḥammad˺ by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque whose surroundings We have blessed, so that We may show him some of Our signs. Indeed, He alone is the All-Hearing, All-Seeing.
Juz 15 / Hizb 29 - Page 282
Made me mostly think of “A land without a people for a people without a land” thing. Or how much hasbara do you believe?
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