It’s a start.
Honestly when I was last on Arsebook (5 years ago) I hadn’t seen a political ad in years. They were always dubious here.
Now do YouRube: the outbreak source for contemporary fascism.
Yeah I’m still on there (I know, but there are professional reasons) and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a political ad on it
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.
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.
Superintelligence for everyone is the new Metaverse.
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.
He had ideas?