Folks to me a decade ago: Aral, what’s all this tinfoil-hat stuff about Silicon Valley? You’re being alarmist! What’s the worst that could happen? Etc., etc.
Meanwhile, a Silicon Valley billionaire:
> Some people are like “oh, but isn’t it terrible to celebrate the power of weapons?” and I say, you know what, societies have always needed a warrior class that is enthused and excited about enacting violence on others in pursuit of good aims. I think that it’s reasonable for philosophers to degrade those people and whine about how they’re sick in the head. But society needs them. Even if I’m sick in the head. We need people who are willing to fight for our country—and I’m not doing that directly, my life’s not on the line. But you need people like me who are sick in that way and don’t lose any sleep making tools of violence
... Show more...Folks to me a decade ago: Aral, what’s all this tinfoil-hat stuff about Silicon Valley? You’re being alarmist! What’s the worst that could happen? Etc., etc.
Meanwhile, a Silicon Valley billionaire:
> Some people are like “oh, but isn’t it terrible to celebrate the power of weapons?” and I say, you know what, societies have always needed a warrior class that is enthused and excited about enacting violence on others in pursuit of good aims. I think that it’s reasonable for philosophers to degrade those people and whine about how they’re sick in the head. But society needs them. Even if I’m sick in the head. We need people who are willing to fight for our country—and I’m not doing that directly, my life’s not on the line. But you need people like me who are sick in that way and don’t lose any sleep making tools of violence
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Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •“[With Oculus] I was just trying to build toys that delighted people. There was no vengeance, there was no malice, there was no killer instinct involved. I think I didn’t develop that obsession or framing until I felt I was stabbed in the back by a lot of people who should have treated me better.”
If the most successful people in your system are out there writing their own supervillain origin stories maybe your system is a stinking pile of shit.
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Palmer Luckey Is Our Most Terrifyingly Deranged Billionaire
Nathan J. Robinson (Current Affairs Inc)Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •You want to understand who liberals are and why they’re not an alternative to fascism? Here’s them giving this son of a bitch a standing ovation after inviting him to present at one of their most sacred events.
(Yes, that’s Palmer Luckey getting a standing ovation after his TED talk.)
#capitalism #liberals #fascism #SiliconValley #TEDTalks #TED #PalmerLuckey
Juan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉,🇻🇪
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Juan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉,🇻🇪 • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Seriously, watch the fucking Q&A (unless you have high blood pressure)
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Assholes, the whole lot of ’em.
#capitalism #liberals #fascism #SiliconValley #TEDTalks #TED #PalmerLuckey
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www.youtube.comJonathan Schofield
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Josh
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •"Is this ethical?"
Oh boy. The whole goddamn industry is unethical and people like him talking about "better results" are responsible for countless deaths that he'd no doubt rather treat as metrics than humans. He talks about ethics but he's fully in the arms industry mindset.
Talks about humans using tools to separate the people making the weapons from the deaths they cause, like that's a *good thing* wow.
Dan Hatton
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •CM Thiede
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •and growing bored with building autonomous killing machines, now waxing nostalgic with retro gaming.
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spdrnl
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •This illustrates quite well why the by Russia proposed hemispheres will in fact never live in peace, as Russia is suggesting.
It will in fact lead to larger escalations and more war and violence. But then again, it is a Russian suggestion.
Toni Aittoniemi
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Over the course of history, those ”philosophers” he thinks he’s referring to (and probably never read through), have emphasized restraint when discussing the warrior classes of their societies, and violence in general..
What a total hack.