This honestly explains a lot.
@georgetakei Nobody needs Marc. He's a modern invention.

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The fact that the super-wealthy are 100,000,000% a creation of changes in the mathematical formula used in the tax laws in the 1980s

And nothing at all too do with any effort or quality of themselves

And that simple changes that said “all that money is no longer yours” would be perfectly legal and correct

Is unfathomable to most people, not just the very wealthy

@georgetakei These are truly the most uneducated people.
And by educated I do not mean formal education. A degree does not make you 'educated.'
@georgetakei He's clearly an uneducated billionaire.
@georgetakei Nothing between those ears but beef tallow.
@georgetakei I think that the capacity for introspection is a key component of what makes someone a person and not just a meat golem. And I'm not just talking about Homo Sapiens, whatever the other components are, if a species has them, including introspection, then they're people.
@StarkRG @georgetakei @jrdepriest “Meat golem” actually sounds kinda cool. I’m not sure I would disavow it if accused. Can I introspect and still be a meat golem?
@mkb @georgetakei @jrdepriest You're a meat *person* (as opposed to a vegetable person, a fungus person, or a mineral person).
@StarkRG @georgetakei i used to say philosophy is what differentiates humans from animals, but we always dehumanize behaviour we dislike and we have to acknowledge that these individuals who don't introspect or don't think or else ate indeed also humans. I'm not even sure psychiatrists have names for them, there simply are different types of minds.
@dwalin_7 @georgetakei Human is our species, I'm not saying someone who is truly incapable of introspection isn't human, I'm saying they're not *people.* And I'm not talking about someone who doesn't introspect, but someone who actually *can't.* If you don't introspect, purposefully analysing and modifying your own behaviour, then you're giving up any semblance of free will, you're essentially an automaton reacting to external stimuli. If you actually *can't* do that, then you simply *are* one.

@georgetakei

You mean, totally unlike Buddhism

@georgetakei

Who has the most cartoon villain like views of the world?

Hint, only one of them was acting.

Vincent Price was a master criminal known as Egghead & was one of the smartest men in the world. He had a huge ego & was forever talking about his own brilliance while making egg puns on the #Batman TV show.

Marc Andreessen is bald.

@georgetakei he needs his 3 braincells for breathing, blinking and walking at the same time. None left over for other tasks.
@georgetakei so yeah he's a sociopath.

@georgetakei

I'm not saying every billionaire is a shallow empty husk, but enough of them are.

@billyjoebowers I would be a great billionaire. Please let me prove it to you. 😍
@georgetakei "Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? Morons!"
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So when he says "modern" he means "anything after the invention of writing, when people immediately started recording what philosophers were saying?
@georgetakei He's making statements about his own mind, but he doesn't think he has _any_ introspection? 
@georgetakei This is just more of the "empathy is bad" crowd's absolute bullshit.

@georgetakei

Oh, to be so dim, yet so obscenely wealthy. It’s clear he has nothing in common with the rest of society.

@georgetakei
Thanks to Reagan , billionaires are a modern invention.
@georgetakei in a normal world, such self-absorbed ignorant parasites should be kicked out in a way or another, and not given the opportunity to make us endure their infatuation.
@georgetakei Well, all is relative. The Homo Sapiens exists at least for half a million years. So, 2.500 years are fairly recently/modern.

@georgetakei

Only way to sleep when you know you're responsible for all kinds of death and misery that didn't have to happen except for your own wanky dumbass lonely loser jollies. Pigass pig.

@georgetakei From a purely epistemological standpoint, he's probably right. Words that refer to mental states, for example, were once (i.e., etymologically) frank references to behavior. A certain segment of the population appears to have no "mental imagery" at all. They can report other "private events," though...
@georgetakei I am introspective enough to distrust introspection.

@georgetakei

Billionaires are all sociopaths. They may not have started out that way but they ALL become it in the end.

@georgetakei Thereby proving his lack of education.

@georgetakei I think #Andreesen should be sentenced to #TouchingGrass

  • Like for real!

@georgetakei FFS even the word "introspection" isn't modern. It dates back to the 17th century in English but derives from the ancient Latin "introspectus", meaning to look within. Why are these billionaires so willfully, proudly ignorant?

I'm starting to think some of them are philosophical zombies - in that they have no inner lives - which perhaps explains why they think chatbots might be people and other humans are expendable.

@ApostateEnglishman @georgetakei If the ultra rich and their self-made billionaire power controls spoken language, they can control pretty much anything they want.
@georgetakei Marc Andreessen's lack of introspection is as big as his philanthropic efforts. Talk about a tax dodge.🙄🤦‍♀️👎💩
Dishonesty comes in many forms.
@georgetakei Socrates was an amazing footballer.
@georgetakei @flipper But it was a real pigs bladder they kicked then!
@georgetakei so if he doesn't use his head, he won't mind losing it, do I understand that right?
@georgetakei These people are like a naive kid who finds out they can say anything they want to on the internet, but then they have to live the rest of their lives being mocked by others for the stupid things they say. History is those others that will be mocking Andreessen, Thiel, Musk, Altman, etc. But unfortunately they're adults and don't have that amygdala-prefrontal excuse to explain their behavior.
@georgetakei i want to know how he knows he has zero introspection
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@georgetakei People like this Andreessen fellow are the people who Socrates went after in his dialogues, and who eventually persecuted Socrates.
@georgetakei It's like bragging that you only want to eat Big Macs, EVER! Yeah when you're six years old.

@georgetakei

Q: Are you leading a just life?

A: Never thought about it. I just do stuff randomly. Introspection is woke. My spirit animal is a jellyfish.