A generalist Sci-Fi meme community.
If you actually start getting into the Tech CEO interviews and long-form journalist pieces, you begin to see them very seriously struggling with the idea of Roko's Basilisk.
Like, I get the sense that some significant number of these guys genuinely believe a Computer Ghost from the Future is threatening to torture them for eternity unless they are they ones who build it.
I think they're just greedy fucks who see a new avenue to extract capital.
Rokos basilisk is a coping mechanism to explain the unexplainable greed.
The basilisk is no more than the devil is to religious folks. A metaphor to understand the insanity of man
Tech bros are some of the stupidest people on earth. Slept though literature and other humanities courses, probably. Unironically saying things like "why do we need writers? just have the ai write whatever book you want"
We have no cultural awareness of a bright future. We are too caught up in the issues of Rome to notice the future industrial revolution. That revolution is that biology is a technology and we have not even begun to learn how to harness it. Biology holds the key to sustainability on the scale of billions of years. One day, biology will not be a science of discovery. It will be a fully understood and mastered engineering corpus. When that day comes, the current age will look as primitive as the Romans or Han Chinese appear to us now.
We are a culture that lacks futurism and comprehension of our place on the timeline. This is not some kind of pinnacle. The hubris of our collective assumption of relevance is a vitriolic madness largely due to the acceptance of people that feel skepticism over the art of rigorous observation and recording of results called science. Like we need to dumb this down to solve the issue. They are not scientists. Science as a word has failed. These are the unbiased observational record makers. If you are skeptical of unbiased observation and recordings, you are a crackpot fool. These people are who need a name one can easily loath.
