@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.

@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.