Humanity should do everything now to achieve the greatest possible happiness in a very distant future. Climate change, fascism, war, displacement and hunger - from the point of view of longtermism, none of this is important. What is important, for example: humanity should prevent the emergence of a machine superintelligence, a power that could destroy everything. And: Humanity should learn to colonise other planets, because the Earth will not last forever. (translated from a Netzpolitik.org article)
This means “small” problems AI causes today do not count, spending money to get billionairs to space is progress. Caring for a doomed planet and keeping it from burning to a crisp isn’t as isn’t paying decent wages so people can afford children. They can focus on a far future and are bullet proof against criticism for not helping to solve current issues, because they are all in for humanity in 3000 years from now, living in space and we should thank them for that. Yeah. Take their money away, please.
It is not just Elon Musk it is also Sam Altman (OpenAI) or Guillermo Söhnlein (co-founder of the firm behind the doomed Titan submersible) - now leading a project to create a floating colony of 1,000 people on Venus - just weeks after the disaster which killed five people.
Nick Bostrom:
In 2002, he published an essay on “existential risks” and wrote: "At present, in some places, there seems to be a negative correlation between intellectual performance and fertility. Bostrom fantasises about making people mentally and physically “healthier” through genetic manipulation. Obviously, the philosopher is describing a misanthropic view of the world in which people are judged on the basis of physical or mental characteristics. Bostrom also argues that genes play a central role in determining such characteristics. This view, known as “eugenics”, was used by the Nazis to justify genocide.
These people are a threat to human kind and whatever they do is not meant to help today. They use their money to do everything BUT to change our society and planet for the better, they have already written us off.
For a deeper dive (and plenty of musk shit talking) this video from some more news does a pretty good dive into billionaires fucked up moral compass. Hint: it’s all racism and eugenics dressed up in shitty rhetoric
Longtermism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longtermism
Humanity should do everything now to achieve the greatest possible happiness in a very distant future. Climate change, fascism, war, displacement and hunger - from the point of view of longtermism, none of this is important. What is important, for example: humanity should prevent the emergence of a machine superintelligence, a power that could destroy everything. And: Humanity should learn to colonise other planets, because the Earth will not last forever. (translated from a Netzpolitik.org article)
This means “small” problems AI causes today do not count, spending money to get billionairs to space is progress. Caring for a doomed planet and keeping it from burning to a crisp isn’t as isn’t paying decent wages so people can afford children. They can focus on a far future and are bullet proof against criticism for not helping to solve current issues, because they are all in for humanity in 3000 years from now, living in space and we should thank them for that. Yeah. Take their money away, please.
It is not just Elon Musk it is also Sam Altman (OpenAI) or Guillermo Söhnlein (co-founder of the firm behind the doomed Titan submersible) - now leading a project to create a floating colony of 1,000 people on Venus - just weeks after the disaster which killed five people.
Nick Bostrom:
In 2002, he published an essay on “existential risks” and wrote: "At present, in some places, there seems to be a negative correlation between intellectual performance and fertility. Bostrom fantasises about making people mentally and physically “healthier” through genetic manipulation. Obviously, the philosopher is describing a misanthropic view of the world in which people are judged on the basis of physical or mental characteristics. Bostrom also argues that genes play a central role in determining such characteristics. This view, known as “eugenics”, was used by the Nazis to justify genocide.
These people are a threat to human kind and whatever they do is not meant to help today. They use their money to do everything BUT to change our society and planet for the better, they have already written us off.
For a deeper dive (and plenty of musk shit talking) this video from some more news does a pretty good dive into billionaires fucked up moral compass. Hint: it’s all racism and eugenics dressed up in shitty rhetoric