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Please use one of the countless templates that doesn’t involve a fucking creep.
Absolutely fair call and noted.
You go first, bro
Capitalism is a death cult
We will have a chance of survival after we eat the rich
Extinction is the default, you dolt. We were trying to see if we could get a different outcome rather than the default.
These people are not clever.
They are brilliant morons.
This isn't really extinction in that sense. The author is being pedantic.
Extinction in the form of living forever and morphing into a different species is just not something we have a word for because it's never happened before.
morphing into a different species is just not something we have a word for because it’s never happened before.
Oh man wait until you hear about some of the ideas from this Charles Darwin guy!
I meant a single individual living forever and morphing into a different species, which is what Sam Altman is talking about, not a whole species evolving into another across generations of individuals....
The first one has never happened and is the topic being discussed, the latter is irrelevant.
And here I thought Ted Faro from Horizon Zero Dawn was bad writing.
Wow, and I thought I was the only one who actually thought Aloy was really pretty but also didn't understand the accolades for the writing which seemed very one note and had flat character development.
The billionaires are out for blood. Tought you guys should know.
Always have been. They just want to play god among men a few more times before they run into their bunkers and end times yachts, and their idea of god is the Old Testament one, where it’s disdainful, demands fealty, is cruel, uncaring, vengeful, requires constant sacrifices to the already stripped down servants, and constant adulation in the form of chants, statues, regailings that hail them as superior and well loved.
It's hilariously sad because it all hinges on them somehow keeping complete control over everyone after all the systems that brought them to the level of wealth they have will be broken and gone. They fail to understand that they succeeded in a system where they didn't have to fear someone cutting their head off to take their place as the new leader of the bunker or will just cut off their head and just fucking leave the bunker behind with their corpse left rotting all alone. When all rules and order are out of the window, they are 100% reliant on their precious technology to continue being in control. All it takes is a failure of ONE of those systems for it to all come crashing down and for their head of security to become a new local warlord. They literally are textbook definitions of "hubris."
Only Zuckerberg actually seems to be considering that aspect in terms of his physical training and fighting training. I wouldn't be surprised if he's also had extensive firearms training, honestly. Out of all of them I can see him having the self-discipline to actually learn the skills he would need to survive after retreating to a bunker. He may still come off like a robot, but he's clearly a little bit more put together than the rest of them, who are either roided out freaks like Bezos or idiots like Musk who couldn't even get roided up correctly because he's so fucking lazy.
The problem with zuck is you have to have a community to survive any situation where the systems break down, and he’s not likable enough or social enough to stay in or properly form a community. He made his money with an antisocial hot girl rating site that turned into apps that fed off making people insecure and scared constantly so they’d forever doom scroll. He is incapable of defending himself from multiple tribes simultaneously, including his own.
Oh absolutely, but the fact that he can and does listen to experts means he may just be willing enough to listen to experts and do some socially ingratiating things even if he as a person doesn't actually care about them. Zuck is an evil asshole, but I don't actually think he's stupid.
Same. But if you pay attention to the reality tv survival shows, the first people on the chopping blocks are the ones that pose obvious threats. That’s zuck by a mile. It’s also how modern right wing govts are being run. I have no doubt it’s how the first gangs in an apocalypse will be run.
I agree accept about zuckerberg, that soft Bitch isn't going to make it.
https://observer.com/2023/05/mark-zuckerberg-jiu-jitsu/
He's actually in shape in a healthy way, he's not roided up at all. He's out there practicing and succeeding. I can't stand the fucking guy, but the idea that he's totally soft when he's the only billionaire I've seen who actually does stuff like listen to his coaches is silly. Footage of him training shows that he has amazing coaches (he obviously can afford the best) and he definitely listens to them.
He is working out in the gym, with supplements and whatever, he didn't build his muscle by working. He's a bitch, not as much of a bitch as the other billionaires I will give you that obviously. Nevertheless. Also though is it just me or are his either over developed or is he developing bitch tits? And I'm just quoting Fight Club don't get on my shit about that phrase. The other two dudes have not natural builds but more even builds.
The black guy actually looks like he has 100% natural build, the white guy maybe barely steroid those are all natural builds actually for the most part.
You are supposed to tie the rag around the neck of the bottle FYI.
For safety yes. What about over all AOE though?
I dont think it matters. I wouldn't try to find it out tho
“The only way we can save humanity is to buy my product!”
He’s not warning us, he’s threatening us.
TESCREALism is a billionaire ideology which aims to create superintelligent AI as a "worthy sucessor to humanity"
I miss when business sophistry was about how my house would be cleaner.
Sounds like he didn't get the message with the first few Molotov cocktails.
So should we extinct you to spare ourselves?
OK, you first Altman.
BUT not HIS Extinction so PLEASE make sure to ONLY use your Pitchforks on Mothers and Children!
-Republicans on Welfare!
me not human, me ubermensch…
Finally something we agree on.
RIP Norm.
that old chunk of coal
When he says human he only means rich people. Like how the planatir douche says mass survalience is the only way humans survive he really means it's the only way people like him can survive.
Es un pendejo.
These guys are so afraid of dying.