Post

I 100% think big tech companies would be immeasurably helped by having sociologists, philosophers, and social workers on staff to nurture all the dudes at these companies with the emotional intelligence of a damp walnut

65 reposts428 likes

isn't it a thing to notice how, just yesterday at about this time, we happened to discuss how the folks over on meta platforms, Threads & FB/IG, are not okay. today it seems clear there's a connection to its corporate business environment and perhaps folks there are not okay *by design*

"I want to run experiments on my children's brains by sticking things in them." The tech bros have lost all humanity. They are nothing but an existential threat to everyone and everything you love.

I don’t know, I never thought the reason to have kids was to maximize their compute potential. If was more for the hugs and the afternoons in the park and the unconditional love and stuff.

So he wants to make his children cyborgs without considering their agency or consent? Sounds kinda like "brain rape" since you'd be invasively violating their body without consent. Wait, yeah...that tracks for these sick, disgusting people.

humanity would be immeasurably helped. what these fools are concocting in their fever dreams is incredibly dangerous and it feels like they're speed-running global annihilation for funsies

Everyone needs to read Iain Banks' character in Excession, the ship mind Grey Area's comments about the downsides for a human of possessing a neural lace. Deliberate and even inadvertent mindreading, and the most efficient and effective means of torture ever imagined, for example.