M. BlindSep 10, 2023
Zach Weinersmith
Longtermism
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Longtermism

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Longtermism

Sep 10, 2023 at 3:02pmWeb
Show threadJohn CuttingSep 10, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith
Boomerism
Show threadWarren Currie 🦠🦐Sep 10, 2023
@jcutting @ZachWeinersmith very accurate. The tech bros have much in common with some boomers in this respect - an inflated sense of entitlement and being more important than anyone else. I once overheard in a restaurant "if these kids today wanted what we had, they should have been born in the 50s"... geniuses of logic they were not.
Show threadJohn CuttingSep 10, 2023

@DrPlanktonguy

I'm not clever enough to turn the phrase but there's something to the First Nation quote "We don't inherit the earth. We borrow it from our children." Boomers and techbros heard that and decided to abuse the earth like it was a rental car with full coverage. 'That means someone else is responsible for it and I don't have to pay, so I'm going to have fun trying to blow out the engine.'

Show threadJoeSep 10, 2023
@DrPlanktonguy @jcutting @ZachWeinersmith Pretty embarrassing for a scientist to generalize from N=1, I think. My non-scientific hunch is that entitlement is uniformly distributed but there's lots of selection bias (and resentment) driving these kind of comments.
Show threadDavid Mitchell Sep 10, 2023

@ZachWeinersmith

“It’s 99% of people and they just don’t realize it”

Ouch … but true.

Show threadwrosecransSep 10, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith He's a real optimist about what Humanity is gonna do with immortality.
Show threadkolyaSep 10, 2023
@wrosecrans @ZachWeinersmith
You mean the sex holograms?
Show threadPixelArtDragonSep 10, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith Ever played Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri? This sounds exactly like the philosophy of the capitalist faction.
Wait.
SM:AC
SMBC.
Show threadRodneyPetersonTalentAgencySep 10, 2023

@ZachWeinersmith

“We’re not mopping the floors tonight because fuck it. All Arby’s locations will eventually be destroyed in wars or sucked back into the sun.”

One of the very many brilliant tweets of Nihilist Arby’s

Show threadJuffo-WupSep 10, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith
tl;dr: Pizza and sex holograms!
Show threadMortenSep 10, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith I keep forgetting that the king of England is a real person who exists now
Show threadccwscottSep 11, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith actually sending this to my kids
Show threadkolyaSep 11, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith You may have crossed the Darkness-at-Noon-line, making the viewpoint you're trying to criticise a little too attractive.
@ccwscott