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The Atlantic has given this nutcase a platform. Firefox has pushed his wack article to its front page. Why is the tech industry railroading this agenda? At the same time as you have a tech industry which preaches that they are the saviors of mankind, you have tech-adjacent intellectual "elite" who have developed a religion based on opposing technology as a solution to any of humanity's problems. While it would seem that these two viewpoints are irreconcilable, something strange is happening. The synergistic conglomerate of tech industry and the left-leaning intellectual elite that love-hates them has taken on a mind of its own. Algorithms that feed content have created a worldview that is shared by no actual human (outside of an asylum) based on the combined neuroses of techbro manbabies, champagne soycialists, helicopter-parented college kids, and affluent suburban Karens. While it should remain nothing more than a curiosity, an anomaly created by the ghost in the machine, it threatens to escape from captivity. This ridiculous worldview, once dreamed up by the algorithms, can be promulgated through content feeds (including the Firefox homepage) and actually begin to infect people's minds just as efficiently as human-originated ideas. Then we're really in trouble. In short, humanity could develop entirely new and terrible ideologies based on an AI hallucination. And that's just what this inane "think" piece is. The techbros fundamentally don't value human life, and would see shorter lifespans as a boon that keeps the population down, and weeds out "old" people who haven't been pre-brainwashed into their lifestyle package. And the intellectual "elite" are dyed-in-the-wool technophobes who lack the brain cells to see applications for new technology beyond what the manbuns are pushing. They certainly can't imagine tech that actually lengthens healthspan or lifespan. Or they are so anti-individualist, that they see prolonging an individual's life as a bad thing because "out with the old". If you ever wondered what happens when the worst people on earth pour their worst opinions into a blender and turn it to liquefy, now you know. Shut down the algorithms before it gets worse.
Logan Stribling
8mo
Not all of us have been brainwashed into low-EQ individuals, but the tech industry definitely has a stink about it. It's been permeating its way through for a long time.
Deborah M.
8mo
I don't want to die at all. But it's getting there that's scary. I don't trust what healthcare systems will do to me when I can't take care of myself. I think they stop listening, and caring, even if you're in pain, or hungry, or just want to die in your own house. I guess unless you have a ton of money, and write a living will, as if you know you'll need one, you don't get to die how you want. The best way to die is how my dad did, heart stopped while he was carrying a microwave in the house from the store. He had no idea, he just, dropped dead.
Adi Andrei
8mo
This was their agenda from the beginning, and this is how they will do it "When your kid wheels you over to your suicide pod - Weak old and afraid you'll remember this song " : : https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adiandrei_heres-a-little-song-i-wrote-and-ai-played-activity-7226545852394184704-IQFE/
Tom Hook
8mo
It’s like HBR - every article is essentially a justification for the ultra wealthy working to the agenda that business doesn’t need to exist to serve society. ‘Why I want to die conveniently shortly after my economic-productive years are done’ is shareholder fodder content. People living long after their work years means the cost has to come from either: Individual pension (requires wages over living wage to put into pension - companies don’t want this) or welfare/state (requires taxes which wealthy/corporate also don’t want) Obviously it’s therefore convent for corporate and the wealthy if people would just be good enough to die sooner after retirement. But of course they can’t just SAY that (because you can be evil but can’t APPEAR to be evil it seems). So we get an article saying how someone would really like that to be the case themselves. In a ‘it’s not evil if you make people think it was their idea’ sort of way. There’s no end of people willing to sell out by writing anti-human corporate-friendly content. What amazes me it how low their price is for it.
As tech-savvy, non-tech bro people working in the field, I think it's our responsibility not just to talk about it, but to BE about it. Don't like the current trajectory that tech has been going on since at least the 80s, especially as it relates to impacts on the climate, which became immediately apparent to me thanks to Jason Marsh 's brilliant visualizations? We are the ones who know better, so let's do better.. You don't need anyone's permission. Build a better mousetrap and level the playing field.
Serkan Ensoner
8mo
Perhaps humanity needs more people to jump on the trend, the kind we wouldn't mind not seeing around for an extended period. Couldn't this be the next-gen Darwinism?
Zeno Windley
8mo
It leads to totalitarian death panels right out of some Orwellian nightmare. "You're not worthy to live to 76, move to this line." - Emanuel
Maria Kuhn, CSPO
8mo
Another attack by adult toddlers with manbuns.
Brian W.
8mo
Remember “Logan’s Run” or “Soylent Green “? One sees emerging patterns that have been implanted by Sci-Fi as this film. Society run by computer… utopia of non thinking, we consume the old… strange
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8moIs everyone living longer and using more resources and draining the economy a good thing?