It’s quite terrifying how profoundly mindless these tech bro pseudo-prophets are - apparently incapable of understanding the world around them beyond the silliest level of superficiality, and yet enabled to have an outsized influence on the lives of future generations.
@tzimmer_history He doesn’t realize that in The Social Network, Zuck was the villain?
@tzimmer_history all of the billionaire brats club members are stunted 14 yr olds. They have no more interest in actual history or humanity than a kid who pulls the wings off a fly or tortures puppies.
@tzimmer_history These are people who have never voluntarily taken a literature course in their lives, who fundamentally do not believe that literature has value. They must have been exposed to the concept of subtext or unreliable narration at some point, but they weren't listening. At this point people like Sam Altman are only capable of responding to film etc. at the level of agitprop. When education focuses on STEM to the exclusion of all else, it produces people like this.
@tzimmer_history I didn’t watch the movie. The documentary was better. Why would someone that created the most terrifying weapon of destruction inspire anyone? Good literature is better at that, makes one think.
FTLOG man, it was a chemical weapon with physi-active properties to make it incredibly worse to civilians and maximise its potential for an instantaneous massacre with expectations of utter demoralisation of a foreign nation!
The original researchers were kept away because they were leftists!
Does nothing catch a hook on your deck!
You really can't make this shit up
https://fosstodon.org/@chrisg/110751918449046729
@tzimmer_history it sort of makes sense that he's into *Artificial* intelligence.
@tzimmer_history i would rather see a movie that shows the people they expropriated and lost their farms and livelihoods that lived in los alamos before they came, it was not unused empty space
@tzimmer_history Do we really need more physicists? Most of the people I know who majored in physics wound up as coders.
@tzimmer_history 1/10, did discourage to build the torment nexus.
@tzimmer_history I'm sorry - what's the context here? I've seen loads of commentary around this and whilst I appreciate the historical context, I'm not sure how it relates to techbros?
@tzimmer_history Tech Bros are today's robber barons: immensely rich, despicably shallow, and destined for a gilded oblivion.
@tzimmer_history What a lack of humanities education does to a motherfucker
@tzimmer_history I wonder if he also thinks that Fight Club was about getting kids interested in martial arts 🫠
@tzimmer_history it's the billionaire rite of passage: saying something so undeniable stupid which proves you only made it due to connections and luck
@tzimmer_history it's investment in education that lednto our scientific leadership. We've let that go.