Abe Drayton
@abedrayton.bsky.social
Internationally recognized writer, Utopian pragmatist. cyberserf. He/him 🕸
Magister of the Fantastical (diploma pending)
Magister of the Fantastical (diploma pending)
It's also a wealth inequality. As long as we have a ruling class, they will use their disproportionate wealth and power to corrode the barriers to oligarchy.
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It's also a wealth inequality. As long as we have a ruling class, they will use their disproportionate wealth and power to corrode the barriers to oligarchy.
Thanks me to overhaul everything I guess, after we lock them up
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Thanks me to overhaul everything I guess, after we lock them up
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All that being said, I always make a point of being polite to voice assistant software, and I raised my son to do the same.
It's not Pascal's wager, I just didn't want him to learn the habit of yelling and taking out his frustrations at assistants (who are usually voiced female-coded too)
It's not Pascal's wager, I just didn't want him to learn the habit of yelling and taking out his frustrations at assistants (who are usually voiced female-coded too)
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
All that being said, I always make a point of being polite to voice assistant software, and I raised my son to do the same.
It's not Pascal's wager, I just didn't want him to learn the habit of yelling and taking out his frustrations at assistants (who are usually voiced female-coded too)
It's not Pascal's wager, I just didn't want him to learn the habit of yelling and taking out his frustrations at assistants (who are usually voiced female-coded too)
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Their denial of the body as merely a vessel for code is shown daily by the way these men treat actual living human beings, including the ones who work for their companies.
These men are chasing their own personal immortailty over piles of corpses. They're the closest thing we have to vampires tbh.
These men are chasing their own personal immortailty over piles of corpses. They're the closest thing we have to vampires tbh.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Their denial of the body as merely a vessel for code is shown daily by the way these men treat actual living human beings, including the ones who work for their companies.
These men are chasing their own personal immortailty over piles of corpses. They're the closest thing we have to vampires tbh.
These men are chasing their own personal immortailty over piles of corpses. They're the closest thing we have to vampires tbh.
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The Singularitarian fantasists who want us to elevate machines to consciousness are not interested in the happiness of all beings.
They want to degrade the biological body to a mere vessel, one they can discard. It's bunk theology for men who believe they're too smart and special to die.
They want to degrade the biological body to a mere vessel, one they can discard. It's bunk theology for men who believe they're too smart and special to die.
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The Singularitarian fantasists who want us to elevate machines to consciousness are not interested in the happiness of all beings.
They want to degrade the biological body to a mere vessel, one they can discard. It's bunk theology for men who believe they're too smart and special to die.
They want to degrade the biological body to a mere vessel, one they can discard. It's bunk theology for men who believe they're too smart and special to die.
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The desire to treat AI as having a soul is based on the same pathological terror at their own mortality that drives these same men to invest in life extension foundations.
If the AI has a soul, then consciousness is code and their own consciousness can be uploaded and thus they can live forever.
If the AI has a soul, then consciousness is code and their own consciousness can be uploaded and thus they can live forever.
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The desire to treat AI as having a soul is based on the same pathological terror at their own mortality that drives these same men to invest in life extension foundations.
If the AI has a soul, then consciousness is code and their own consciousness can be uploaded and thus they can live forever.
If the AI has a soul, then consciousness is code and their own consciousness can be uploaded and thus they can live forever.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
And yet when we call them deniers, the accurate term, people say we're being too mean, so it's our fault they're not convinced.
After all, it's ONLY been like 129 years since the first forecast of warming /s
After all, it's ONLY been like 129 years since the first forecast of warming /s
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
And yet when we call them deniers, the accurate term, people say we're being too mean, so it's our fault they're not convinced.
After all, it's ONLY been like 129 years since the first forecast of warming /s
After all, it's ONLY been like 129 years since the first forecast of warming /s
Remind me what this is from?
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Remind me what this is from?
Granted, I don't think they ARE that smart and competent, but with the power they have, they should be judged by those standards.
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Granted, I don't think they ARE that smart and competent, but with the power they have, they should be judged by those standards.
After hearing my whole life about how competent and smart these people are, I feel like the only explanation for this is willful, conscious collaboration.
They didn't lose the fight, they threw the match.
They didn't lose the fight, they threw the match.
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
After hearing my whole life about how competent and smart these people are, I feel like the only explanation for this is willful, conscious collaboration.
They didn't lose the fight, they threw the match.
They didn't lose the fight, they threw the match.