Obviously Antifascists1d ago
tante
Marc Andreessen claiming that he "doesn't do introspection" is just another building block in the attempt to shift the definition of "person" in a way to allow "AI"s to gain rights.
Mar 20 at 11:04amWeb
Show threadmarius1d ago
@tante based on how they're balking at human rights, I'm pretty sure that AI capitalists are pretty far from wanting AIs to getting any of their own... :)
Show threadTorb1d ago
@mariusor @tante Unless that can be used to trample on actual people's rights.
Show threadmarius1d ago
@torb not trying to contradict you, but how? @tante
Show threadFeralRobots1d ago
@mariusor
What if they control the AIs that have just been given "rights"?
@tante
Show threadLars Marowsky-Brée 😷1d ago

@tante I've recently sat next to a man in his early 60s who proudly proclaimed that his life had gotten better since he stopped all self-reflection. Absolutely without irony.

So yeah, those people are out there.

Show threadFeralRobots1d ago
@larsmb
There's a story in that for sure. What does it take to drive someone to that? Or maybe, two different people: One of them, it takes everything in the world; other, looks in the mirror & notices his wrinkles for the first time.
@tante
Show threadAlessandro Corazza 🇨🇦1d ago

@larsmb

But how does he know that? 🤔

@tante

Show threadLars Marowsky-Brée 😷1d ago

@alessandro @tante See, that'd require an attempt at introspection though.

I can attest he is one of the most annoying and exhausting people I've been around.

(Unfortunately he has the same favored chef as I do, so I've run into him a few times.)

Show threadOtte Homan - remember Geordie1d ago
@tante I would *love* to see the undoubtedly loooong list of all the ventures he tried to blow up and it didnt work and he lost most of his investment. I simply do not believe that the guy is a genius and every single VC engagement he starts is a huge success (as per if you believe what he's saying).
Show threadJeff Craig1d ago
@tante Kind of nice to know at least one of these loons isn't weirdly obsessed with Marcus Aurelius, though.
Show threadFeralRobots1d ago
@foxxtrot
Whenever I see these guys talking Marcus Aurelius I think about how much he'd hate what they are.
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Show threadthomas bohn1d ago
@tante I really love what the art department at The Verge did here https://www.theverge.com/tldr/897566/marc-andreessen-is-a-philosophical-zombie
Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie

Andreessen caused a minor kerfuffle by saying on a podcast that he doesn’t introspect at all, and that in fact, people shouldn’t. What’s really going on?

The Verge
Show threadaneel1d ago
@tante “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.” Count Zero, Willam Gibson