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misanthrope

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10. Bingo! You nailed it.

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #7)

Sun Mar 8, 2026, 03:54 PM

23 hrs ago

The thing driving them is ego. What they see at stake is the perpetuation of their own consciousness and they will stop at nothing to try and ensure their own endurance. It is like so much human folly that has preceded them but with far higher stakes than the world has ever seen.

We have wondered before what the Great Filter on technological civilizations might be, why they aren't more evident in the cosmos. It might bear the face of Trump, Musk, Thiel or Altman but its actual name is "ego."

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Tech oligarchs reshape humanity while billionaires of old seem quaint (The Guardian) [View all] highplainsdem Yesterday OP

X-files already wrote the script lapfog_1 Yesterday #1

You used AI for that? Wikipedia has much more detail, and you wouldn't have had to use so much highplainsdem Yesterday #3

I use whatever tools are available and that I choose to use lapfog_1 Yesterday #4

You could access a regular search engine as quickly as asking a chatbot a question. And not highplainsdem Yesterday #5

you have no idea who I am... lapfog_1 23 hrs ago #11

Whatever your history in tech - and kudos for what you did there - it remains a fact that the highplainsdem 23 hrs ago #12

Or you could just say GenThePerservering Yesterday #8

"if we let digital minds be free rather than try to stop or enslave them," DonCoquixote Yesterday #2

They're also 2 dimensional thinkers GenThePerservering Yesterday #9

In short, these madmen are an actual threat to humanity on a global scale misanthrope Yesterday #6

They're as much a threat to society, humanity and the planet as the Trump regime is. highplainsdem Yesterday #7

Bingo! You nailed it. misanthrope 23 hrs ago #10