How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse
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#2Def going to start referring to the apocalypse as "The Event" from now on.
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#3I feel like this rich people paranoia can be summed up as an old adage: the more you have, the more you are afraid to lose it.
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#4I feel like this rich people paranoia can be summed up as an old adage: the more you have, the more you are afraid to lose it.
Right. "No one would help me protect my bunker out of respect, trust. Let's put electric collars on all the guards and horde the food source."
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#5Check out Neal Stephenson's fine novel SEVENEVES for a vision of what happens at The Event.
Yeah, and the final few minutes of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.
These plutocrats are indulging themselves in a fantasy about their inherent superiority.
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#6Pretty saddening to read- instead of spending their billions to fight climate change, the rich have the "fuck you get mine" viewpoint. Hell, some of 'em probably made their fortunes on coal and oil.
Then again this could just be human nature.
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#7Maybe I'm just in a skeptical mood this morning, but I have a hard time believing that a cabal of really rich CEO types are going to turn to a single person to field technology questions ranging from crypto currency preferences to how you manage your guards in a dystopian future.
The intro to the article has the author reviewing a wide and diverse number of topics with these business guys for an hour. It made me curious what his qualifications were. His website mentioned that he's a "Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens". Again, not the first person I'd turn to if I wanted to talk technology.
I just have a hard time believing the story in the beginning. The author thought he'd be giving a presentation to an audience. Instead, he's in an hour long counseling session with some executives. Why would they do it that way? Why wouldn't you tell the expert what you're doing in advance and the topics you're interested in so he'd have time to prepare? Why not talk to individual domain experts in subjects you're curious about?
Re: How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse
#8Def going to start referring to the apocalypse as "The Event" from now on.
Don't think about The Event! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X888i7hzvP0
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#9Pretty saddening to read- instead of spending their billions to fight climate change, the rich have the "fuck you get mine" viewpoint. Hell, some of 'em probably made their fortunes on coal and oil. Then again this could just be human nature.
> instead of spending their billions to fight climate change
Does Tesla count or are we still calling Elon a scammer and fraud because he's not producing electric cars fast enough?
Re: How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse
#10Pretty saddening to read- instead of spending their billions to fight climate change, the rich have the "fuck you get mine" viewpoint. Hell, some of 'em probably made their fortunes on coal and oil. Then again this could just be human nature.
It's kinda fun to have backup plan upon backup plan. I've definitely gone down this rabbit hole with online account security; was considering buying a safe to store a backup yubikey & some paper passwords, but then I had to consider how I might store the safe combo if I forgot it, and so on - your contingency planning creates more surface area from which additional problems grow.