symthetics

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symthetics,

You’d think the bad publicity alone would be enough to destroy any chance of election. You’d think.

Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher (www.theguardian.com)

Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk’s favorite philosophers. The Future of Humanity Institute, dedicated to the long-termism movement and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism, closed this week after 19 years of operation. Musk had donated £1m to the FIH...

symthetics,

It does on the surface, but the problem is it quickly devolves into extreme utilitarianism. There are some other issues such as:

  1. How rich is rich enough for EA? Who decides?
  2. How much suffering is it acceptable to cause while getting rich to deliver EA?
  3. Is it better to deal with the problems we have now and in the immediate future, or avoid problems in millions of years that we may or may not accurately be able to predict?
  4. Can you even apply morality and ethics to people that do not exist?
  5. Who decides what has the most value?
  6. It’s a cult.
symthetics,

Are you fucking five?

symthetics,

The joke that keeps giving.

Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)

Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday....

symthetics,

Lol.

symthetics,

Is it even secret?

symthetics,

It’ll probably be against the law soon at the rate we’re going.

symthetics,

Exactly. We need to wipe them out at the next election.

symthetics,

Someone needs to tell her sex and gender are not the same thing. And then arrest her.

symthetics,

Yeah it’s hard not to think this isn’t by design. Pretty much every government has taken this approach too, I think it was Blair that started PFIs for example. Could be wrong.

symthetics,

Spend that oil money trying not to look like backwards cunts while you still can, I suppose.

Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts (www.nbcnews.com)

Data from two research firms and figures published by Musk and X suggest a deteriorating situation for X by some metrics. Musk has marketed it as the world’s “town square,” but in number of users it continues to lag far behind social media rivals that focus on video, such as Instagram and TikTok....

symthetics,

Can you define woke?

symthetics,

So you mean racism.

symthetics,

Do you have an example?

symthetics,

So no examples to back up your claim. Ok.

symthetics,

I know, I was just curious how many steps it would take before they were honest about their own bigotry.

Of course they don’t have the balls to be, so instead stay vague and deflect.

symthetics,

Haha all good :D

symthetics,

Yes, let’s retreat to the most hostile environment imaginable and live under the whim of sociopathic billionaires.

That seems like a good alternative to, I don’t know, actually not destroying the environment we’ve perfectly evolved to live in.

On a side note, World 3 seems to be depressingly accurate.

symthetics,

My money is on Neverwinter 3

"Why I'm no longer a White Nationalist." Neoreactionary blogger goes to live in Red America just like he always dreamed. What followed will shock you! (web.archive.org)

“Walt Bismarck,” a neoreactionary/alt-right blogger, decided to live by his beliefs and move from the liberal hellhole of Arizona to the midwest:...

symthetics,

The food news is this useless cunt will die one day.

symthetics,

Drunk typo takes an unexpected twist!

symthetics,

Better yet, put Ben Shapiro in the dune. His gish galloping repugnance should hold back the ocean no problem. If not, well…

symthetics,

Honestly if it’s web3/crypto related you can generally dismiss it as nonsense.

Most web3 and crypto projects are set up by two kinds of people:

  • well meaning but deluded programmers who think because they know how to code they can solve social/economic/cultural problems.
  • scamming cunts.

Sometimes there’s overlap between the two.

The whole space is basically a cult.

symthetics,

Haha man I used to love this as a kid. Don’t think I’ll risk ever watching it again though.

symthetics,

Without reading the article, is it… Let me guess… Is it conservative MPs?

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