Old Woofian
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽This honestly explains a lot.
Amy Edge 
@georgetakei
He's compensating for that head.
GhostOnTheHalfShellConehead 100%
John Breen@georgetakei Nobody needs Marc. He's a modern invention.
AccordionBruce@jab01701mid @georgetakei
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
penpencilbrush🇨🇦@georgetakei These are truly the most uneducated people.
And by educated I do not mean formal education. A degree does not make you 'educated.'
And by educated I do not mean formal education. A degree does not make you 'educated.'
Charlotte Blackman@georgetakei He's clearly an uneducated billionaire.
Soozcat@georgetakei Nothing between those ears but beef tallow.
StarkRG@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.
mkb@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).
Dwalin_7@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.
TheNovemberFella ✊🏳️🌈 🇺🇦☸️🛰️🚀You mean, totally unlike Buddhism
SpockoWho has the most cartoon villain like views of the world?
Hint, only one of them was acting.
Rick d Card@georgetakei he needs his 3 braincells for breathing, blinking and walking at the same time. None left over for other tasks.
Alpha Christ@georgetakei so yeah he's a sociopath.
billy joe bowers 🗽I'm not saying every billionaire is a shallow empty husk, but enough of them are.
Crystal_Fish_Caves@billyjoebowers I would be a great billionaire. Please let me prove it to you. 😍
nick@georgetakei "Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? Morons!"
Tofu Golem@georgetakei
So when he says "modern" he means "anything after the invention of writing, when people immediately started recording what philosophers were saying?
So when he says "modern" he means "anything after the invention of writing, when people immediately started recording what philosophers were saying?
Alun Jones
Sundew@georgetakei He's making statements about his own mind, but he doesn't think he has _any_ introspection? 
Belakor@georgetakei This is just more of the "empathy is bad" crowd's absolute bullshit.
Dan, the US is the threat!@georgetakei @nurglerider …until you start mocking them!
NutriamixOh, to be so dim, yet so obscenely wealthy. It’s clear he has nothing in common with the rest of society.
FurballsNHairballs@georgetakei
Thanks to Reagan , billionaires are a modern invention.
Thanks to Reagan , billionaires are a modern invention.
⏚ Antoine Chambert-Loir@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.
Agitatra 🚲🐻🌿🇪🇺🇺🇦@georgetakei Well, all is relative. The Homo Sapiens exists at least for half a million years. So, 2.500 years are fairly recently/modern.
Hot Dog WaterOnly 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.
gmsizemore@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...
Richard R Lee
Flowermob@georgetakei We don't hate billlionaires enough. #TaxbillionairesOutofExistence
Anton Sherwood@georgetakei I am introspective enough to distrust introspection.
LAURENBillionaires are all sociopaths. They may not have started out that way but they ALL become it in the end.
cslinuxboy@noondlyt @georgetakei 1000000000000%
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘@georgetakei Thereby proving his lack of education.
Kevin Karhan 
@georgetakei I think #Andreesen should be sentenced to #TouchingGrass…
- Like for real!
The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉@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.
Tock@ApostateEnglishman @georgetakei If the ultra rich and their self-made billionaire power controls spoken language, they can control pretty much anything they want.
spanghero@ApostateEnglishman @georgetakei Money making money means that have no need to be introspective, assuming they are even capable of it. They've one at capitalism so we should put that one away, get another game out with a very different way of keeping score; one that doesn't reward concentrating/hording counters
Dingo
Mary Branscombe@ApostateEnglishman @georgetakei it's ironic that Andreesen picked '400 years ago' as his example: the beginning of the age of reason, the era of Descartes and Leibniz. It's beyond ignorance and into somekind of willful denial of history.
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫@ApostateEnglishman @georgetakei
They probably have inner lives, who knows, probably somewhat shrunken and dried out by being denied the water of empathy.
But they will argue any nonsense to devalue other people's humanity in case it stops them getting what they want, and they know what the response would be to "I have an inner life because I'm a special boy who was granted one when I got my first million, but poor people don't".
So they come to straight up denying that anyone has a mind.
@ApostateEnglishman @georgetakei I read an article/study about how the more money someone has the more detached from reality and people they get. Introspection would require them to consider that they're flawed or that other people are actual people and not NPCs in their game of life.
<Ten dollar banana meme>
<Principal Skinner wrong meme>
acb@ApostateEnglishman @cstross @georgetakei Various strains of “rationalism” and neoliberal-adjacent thought valorise “high decoupling”: the ability to rationally do long-term cost-benefit calculations without being overwhelmed by the enormity of one’s immediate actions. Perhaps the apex of this is decoupling from any inner life at all?
@acb @cstross @georgetakei Yes. I expect you probably already know about longtermism, a component of TESCREAL, which seems to be the guiding ideology - bordering on religion - of the tech broligarchy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL
@timnitGebru , btw, is an essential fedi follow for those who aren't following her already.
Charlie Stross@ApostateEnglishman @acb This is generally correct (and TESCREAL is *indeed* a syncretistic religion in its early decades), but please don't randomly rope in everyone on mastodon, it clogs up our mentions.
Nomdeb@ApostateEnglishman @georgetakei too many of them, example Zuckerberg, appear to have nothing close to a quality education, a world education, a cultural education. It's a complete poverty of imagination except for tech. Empty internal lives. Empty. Musk is another example. An empty shell of a man, no substance.
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷@georgetakei Marc Andreessen's lack of introspection is as big as his philanthropic efforts. Talk about a tax dodge.🙄🤦♀️👎💩
Dishonesty comes in many forms.
Dishonesty comes in many forms.
Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈@georgetakei Socrates was an amazing footballer.
Jayflo@georgetakei @flipper But it was a real pigs bladder they kicked then!
A. No, née: Moose@georgetakei so if he doesn't use his head, he won't mind losing it, do I understand that right?
Scott D. Strader 😐@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.
Toni Aittoniemi@georgetakei Philosophy is so woke
François @Jura@gimulnautti @georgetakei so is intelligence