(2/n)

...bedrock of Silicon Valley" (2) and the names
#ElonMusk and #PeterThiel came up, I had my hopes up and was expecting
another view of their ideology based on #Longtermism.

(2)
adriandaub.com/books/what-tech…

A week ago, I had listened to a similar podcast, hosted by @davetroy, who had philosopher and historian Émile P. #Torres ( @xriskology) and the #AI researcher Dr. #TimnitGebru ( @timnitGebru), a #Stanford alumnus, former technical co-lead of #Google's Ethical...

(3/5)
...#ArtificialIntelligence Team, as guests in his show.

They ...dismantled
...the true roots of the #TechBillionaires' ideologies, #Transhumanism and #Eugenics (and more), which they have come to call by its acronym, #TESCREAL.(3)

I really would love to see the four of you in a podium discussion on the #SiliconValley ideologies! 🤔

Your chief explanation in the interview seems to have been a childhood...

(3)
washingtonspectator.org/unders…

The Wide Angle: Understanding TESCREAL — Silicon Valley’s Rightward Turn | Washington Spectator

For decades, the conventional wisdom about Silicon Valley was that it leaned progressive. And by many measures (like donations by Big Tech employees to…

^{Dave Troy (Washington Spectator)}

@davetroy

(4/5)

...penchant for #SciFi, the early-blooming in life of these tech founders, and the nerd-discrimination they had suffered for their nerdy books.
Even though all these are facts, they are not at the bottom of all this. The #SouthAfrican-born #Musk, child of #apartheid, seems to be another factor.

I do see, though, that an overidentification with #FrankHerbert's #Dune's Paul Muad'Dib...

(5/5)

...and #IsaacAsimov's #HariSeldon and his fictional science, #Psychohistory, could lead to a #GodComplex. 😉

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@davetroy And Heinlein's DD Harriman. They, I think, lack even the limited (necessarily for fictional characters) empathy shown by those characters.

I suspect Jubal Henshaw and Lazarus Long play into their self images as well. All in all, my gut feeling is that Heinlein may be the strongest driver of their self-mythologizing, but they still seem to miss out on his empathy and anti-authoritarianism..