Dr. Damien P. Williams, MagusNov 19, 2023

Oh. Looks like people are (once again) figuring out that silicon valley and effective altruism and longtermism and the rest are all bound up root to ass with eugenics and white supremacy.

So: Welcome to the party; there are a LOT of academics, researchers, and people with direct lived experience, already here.

Show threadamy tech (bones)
@Wolven when I worked in tech I was routinely horrified at just how many people really thought eugenics (without any window dressing) just needed "more data" to somehow solve it's fundamental very bad no good terrible philosophy.
Nov 19, 2023 at 6:13pmWeb
Show threadFediThing Nov 19, 2023

@amy @Wolven

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I wonder which of their friends do they think shouldn't be allowed to exist? Or maybe they don't know anyone in the groups they want to wipe out?

Show threadamy tech (bones)Nov 19, 2023
@FediThing they don't (and refuse to) understand that is a fundamental component of eugenics. And before I say anything else, @Wolven is dramatically more qualified to speak on these topics than I am. I can only share personal observations about their thinking:

They see only "improvement." As in, "if we had enough data we could improve humanity by curing, say, autism." They don't see that as killing slowly because they can't fathom that the neurodiversity is a good thing. They were raised to see people as fungible with machinery and so therefore anything that deviates from their expected norms is something to be solved and it's fucking disgusting.
Show threadFediThing Nov 20, 2023

@amy @Wolven

Lost touch with their humanity it seems 😢

Show threadVeirling | #MMIWG #LandBackNov 19, 2023
@amy @Wolven I know two devs who not long ago went to work for United Health Group (UHG). Their primary business is killing people via eugenics. When I heard they were going there, I got physically ill. They had fvcking choices, too. 😒