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There's a level of permission they give themselves when they've accepted this kind of nihilism. "It's all over and there's no God, so what's a little _____ (crime against nature/children/etc.)?" When in fact every big change in the universe has started small.

I think it's really quite tightly tied to their bizarre transhumanist fascism-linked delusions, and their inflated sense of self importance, yes

these guys are basically just modern transhumanist antidemocratic extremists, really not a huge leap from evangelicals, just nicer sneakers

A lot of these techbros are involved with the "rationalist" movement, who literally came up with Roko's Basilisk; the idea that a future super-AI is going to happen and would definitely punish you for not making it happen. ie "What if a boot so big we have to start licking it now?"