A photo of the dinner, also released by the Justice Department, appears to show Zuckerberg and Musk sitting at a long table in a dimly lit room, with glasses of wine in front of them
We do a lot of dick swinging these days, via the convenience of being able to redefine so easily what counts as progress. Is capital growth progress? Is extending the average life expectancy progress? Is exhaustive levels of individualism progress? Is being able to fuck kids on a private island, while none of the poor people know about it, progress? Is being able to kill a large animal progress?
I don’t think any one of those should necessarily count as progress. Especially not the one involving kids, though that seems to be in opposition to what our billionaire class believes.
Progress comes relative to a shared value system. The world’s leading economic and military superpower does not really have a shared value system anymore. That makes none of them capable of any meaningful progress, unless they find a way to come together as one. That’s going to be hard when your billionaire class controls your media platforms. Would you call that control they wield “progress?”
What if, it turns out, that the psychology of an entity capable of contorting as much energy in such a way is also a psychology that would not do so? Say, because to learn as much about the universe, as to be able to treat it by blowing up its stars, you must understand the universe in a way that would reliably demotivate any such action?
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God isn’t real. Billionaires don’t need an imaginary sky wizard to deflect blame to. Hold them personally accountable for their actions.
Isn’t it weird that the story given to you by your successors would have you believe that your successors are in some way more worthy than you?
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We do a lot of dick swinging these days, via the convenience of being able to redefine so easily what counts as progress. Is capital growth progress? Is extending the average life expectancy progress? Is exhaustive levels of individualism progress? Is being able to fuck kids on a private island, while none of the poor people know about it, progress? Is being able to kill a large animal progress?
I don’t think any one of those should necessarily count as progress. Especially not the one involving kids, though that seems to be in opposition to what our billionaire class believes.
Progress comes relative to a shared value system. The world’s leading economic and military superpower does not really have a shared value system anymore. That makes none of them capable of any meaningful progress, unless they find a way to come together as one. That’s going to be hard when your billionaire class controls your media platforms. Would you call that control they wield “progress?”
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Stars blow themselves up without our intervention all the time. All we need to do is wait, which we seem okay at already…
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What if, it turns out, that the psychology of an entity capable of contorting as much energy in such a way is also a psychology that would not do so? Say, because to learn as much about the universe, as to be able to treat it by blowing up its stars, you must understand the universe in a way that would reliably demotivate any such action?
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