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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36866515

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They don't think that far ahead. There's also some evidence that what they're actually after is a way to upload their consciousness and achieve a kind of immortality. This pops out in the Behind the Bastards episodes on (IIRC) Curtis Yarvin, and also the Zizians. They're not strictly after financial gain, but they'll burn the rest of us to get there.

The cult-like aspects of Silicon Valley VC funding is underappreciated.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah, yes, can't say about VC, or about anything they really do, but they have some sort of common fashion and it really would sometimes seem these people consider themselves enlightened higher beings in making, a starting point of some digitized emperor of humanity conscience.

(Needless to say that pursuing immortality is directly opposite to enlightenment in everything that they'd seem superficially copying.)

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The quest for immortality (fueled by corpses of the poor) is a classic ruling class trope.

[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And if it bugs you, you can bug Jack Barron about it