Emmanuele Bassi2d ago
tante

"I admit, this is an innovation I did not see coming: Silicon Valley has invented the philosophical zombie from the classic thought experiment "lol how crazy would it be if there were a philosophical zombie.""

(Original title: Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie)

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
Mar 20 at 12:20pmWeb
Show threadguenterhack2d ago
@tante "My own bodyguards will kill me in my billionaire bunker on Armageddon" IS a case of introspection, IMHO
Show threadEmmanuele Bassi2d ago
@tante this is why these people are terrified of the artificial super-intelligence torturing an emulation of their mind: unlike every other human, they are uniquely so simple to emulate, a Texas Instruments graphical calculator could do that
Show threadDavid Gerard2d ago
@ebassi @tante you'd have to make the calculator racist
Show threadRaphael Albert2d ago

@tante
This is Andreessen telling us what capitalism wants us to be, has in store for us, and tries to shape us into, so that we can be the perfect consumers of their slop machines.

"Don't even bother thinking about stuff. You're not made for it, you know? Just live comfortably in your 15 second attention span and let us do the rest!"

Show threadBenjamin Geer2d ago
@tante @davidgerard IIRC David Chalmers jokingly suspected that Daniel Dennett was a philosophical zombie, but maybe the idea isn’t as far-fetched as we thought
Show threadophiocephalic 🐍2d ago
@tante
But in another sense, it could be argued that since Silicon Valley has long pursued the language and thought of dehumanization, the explicit negation of selfhood is just its logical conclusion. Their technobabble has always been nihilistic