I think this is just misdirection on their part. Sort of "look at that blibbering humdinger in the window" Harry Potter moment. What they are really after is total control over everything. Many of them believe (as do many in Silicon Valley) in effective altruism, which has a great story line until you dig into what that means (google for it to see the propaganda). What that means is they figure they deserve own everything and thence dispense the benefits somewhat like Mafia bosses. They are not our friends.

In their quest to own everything, they intend to own world governments, especially the U.S. government. And they are well on their way to getting there with the Fascist contingent on the Supreme Court and the Right Wingnuts calling themselves conservatives greasing the way. Their sock puppet in the Oval Office will give them anything they want.

One easy way to see what they are up to is Adam Becker's book: "More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity". There are other authors making the same points.

If you want see how vacuous are their positions, many are determined to put a man on Mars, but not them. They do not mind burning up a few proles in the attempt. Another example is the quest for AI datacenters. What will they do with them after they've raised everyone's electric rates to get them? What use would they put to an AI controlled America? They figure they will be the controllers.

Another quest of theirs is to prevent dying, and they do not care how many proles need to get whacked in their quest. Whether is it putting their "minds" in an AI thingy or "solving" nature's renewal program (dying), they figure they are so important that they cannot be allowed to die.

Yes, it is all pretty stupid, but that doesn't mean they can see that.

Kids want to use apps, they won't give a flying rat's ass about permission. They'll find a way regardless of what the little men in Texas have to say about it.

"the filthy filthy humanities phds" Yeah, what use do we have with philosophers to plumb moral issues (religions do not count, they only regurgitate what brings them income), new logics, quantum physics (most philosophy departments these days have PhDs working on quantum mathematics and its relationship to gravity), etc.?

Sociology? That's good for looking back at society and discerning what makes it tick, what ails it, how transformations can screw up (e.g., AI).

History? Yes, let's forget our history so we can repeat the same goddamn mistakes. Why do you think the Christian Nutjobs want step on history of the founding of the U.S. They want to Whitewash all the crap they've visited on the U.S., slavery being one of the biggest sins.

Psychology? Why do we do the things we do? With no retrospective we just lurch from one idiocy to the next.

Poly Sci? Failure to understand the nature of dictatorial and Fascist regimes is leading the U.S. directly into one.

So while you will have your technomarvels as all that counts, do not forget the little Nazis in Silicon Valley who figure they are to be the ones to rule over everyone once their data centers and AI bullshit get strong enough.

That's nothing. el Bunko's crypto-cash bilked a lot more. From https://finance.yahoo.com/mark...,

              "Nearly 1 million investors in President Donald Trump's memecoin have lost a massive $3.8 billion on their investments."

This is after he's spent a lifetime bilking people and companies out of their money, but these yokels still plunked down their cash on them.

The only reason they are changing their tune is because of the backlash to them putting data centers in our backyards and vacuuming up the cash we'll be spending on electricity bills. Do not trust them, they do not deserve it.

Calm down grasshopper. What's being "said" (keep an eye on statistics instead of inflating percentages into everybody) is that taking away many peoples' healthcare (in favor of tax breaks for the wealthy) does not make many people healthier, it makes them more unhealthy and poorer. Everything that el Bunko and Elmo do *sometimes* (more often than should be) make people dead or sick. Cutting minuscule foreign aid kills scores in Africa. Pissing it off on Israel killed scores of Palestinians.

la Presidenta is cutting rules and regs on pollutants. I presume in your book that pollutants do not kill people or make them sick. Then you'll be wanting to cozy up to that coal fired power plant that is now allowed to spew more mercury into the environment. You do recall mercury from HS chemistry, yes? Okay, no. So look it up.

One can go through the list of el Bunko's EOs. They have two defining features: they are bad for Americans' health and they benefit he and his crime family. Elmo is not far behind but his reach is smaller.....now. That little fucking Nazi has every intention of tell everyone else how live and his Silicon Valley fellow travelers (Thiel, Ellison, Altman, etc.) are right behind him. Bezos is bringing up the rear. You are mere cannon fodder to their schemes.

If you want to see how the proles are doing, pay attention to credit card debt and how many jobs they must work to make ends meet. Jesus, and stop whinging about how mistreated is the Epstein class.

Another counter argument is that Elmo doesn't give fuck about damaging the environment so shoving oodles of his tat into space won't bother him, either the pollution of the launches or filling the skies with his tat. And it isn't clear why we need all them datacenters other than to make him and his buddies richer and more powerful. Their idea is that money = power and with enough of it, they can direct the lives of everyone else. Just like a good little Nazi.

Plunk Kurzweil in that group as well. That yokel thinks that eventually some organization is going to clone his DNA and recreate him:

Ray: Ta-Da!!! I'm back.

Prole: Who the Hell are you?

Ray: I'm the one who predicted the Singularity. It has finally arrived, and I'm back baby!!

Prole: Okay, here's a shovel, get to work.

Ray: Wha? Do you know who I am?

Prole: No, and I don't give a flying rat's ass. Now get to work or you don't eat. Gotit!!

Ray: But, but, but....I'm a genius, you owe me!

Prole: I owe you nothing, and if you don't work, get on the next body cart to the dump.

Ray: How come you want to throw me away?

Prole: Because the previous you threw future generations, e.g., me, away on your Singularity jihad. Oh, there's a body cart now. Up you get, bozo.

It isn't that the majority of gun owners are actually responsible people, it is that we cannot tell WHICH are the responsible ones and not likely to go all postal.

It reminds me of a political cartoon I once saw. Reagan and Carter were on horse-back herding cows. Reagan asks Carter: Which ones are the sacred cows? Carter responds: You just have to ask'em.

Anyhow, if you want see the results of gun "culture" in the U.S., just look at stats on rates of gun deaths due to homicide in the U.S. to other countries. The stats are all over the intertubes and you too can google them.

hmmm.....so you say you have fantasies involving women in hijabs? That's fairly niche. With some effort, I'm sure you can move into fantasies involving men in hijabs. Regardless, I was unaware the migrants from S. and C. America were Muslim. Who knew?

This sounds like the bot has solved an engineering problem: "how do I thread this needle?" Bot: "Thusly! I'm a fucking genius!!!"

Ah, so if a state government cannot solve a global problem, they should just stick there with their thumbs up their ass and do nothing? Brilliant!!! Collectively solving any problem becomes impossible with that sort of reasoning. Do you work for la Presidenta? That's his sort of "reasoning".

And I look at the environment and observe how we are heating ourselves to extinction along with most of the critters. Some plants may survive.

I see you do not have to subsist on regular people wages. This is the usual tripe we hear from economists who know nothing about what Americans are going through. Want a hint? Look at credit card debt.

Korean General: Listen up troops, we all going to stand on our heads and jump up and down. Let me see you do it!!

This makes sense until some organization come up with kryptonite for drones.