I've always favoured Tessier-Ashpool S.A. as comparable. The creation of AI's and Freeside and Musk's pronatalism slots in nicely.

Musk isn't a natalist. The global population is going up. And yet, he complains about not enough births. Because he is a white supremacist. He wants white people to outnumber other races. The current state of affairs would be satisfactory to him if he were merely a natalist.

The population is very hard to count, believe it or not. In many places, the birth rate is well under replacement and in the others it's dropping quickly. Furthermore there's widespread fraud and deliberate miscounting which also makes it hard to really know.

So let's get this straight, you think the global population is not going up?

> In many places, the birth rate is well under replacement

Of course, in some places, this is true. But not globally. We don't need more births to keep population going on. There's a surplus of starving, fecund people globally. Musk amplifies and composes tweets about how white people are going to be a minority (we have been for basically all of human existence, but w/e), and he's even said things like if white people are a minority, we will all be killed. Which only makes sense if the assumptions underlying this claim are that white people are uniquely non-violent (i.e., supreme). Or it's an admission that everyone commits genocide against everyone else. Which is so transparently fictitious that someone as allegedly brilliant as he is couldn't possibly believe it.

The most generous description of him is that he's dumb. The least generous is he's a white supremacist.

Source?

For which part?

Global population increase: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-populat...

White supremacist: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VfYjPzj1Xw

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/as-elon-mus...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/17/business/elon-musk-reveals-hi...

https://religiondispatches.org/2026/01/09/musk-endorsed-whit...

and so on and so forth

Trust is slowly gained and easily lost. The amount of apologia I hear from top-tier developers signals an inflection point downward.

this is the internet sir.

Value to Anthropic's shareholders.

Amazon? I'm sure Macgyver would've had to be a woman. And make her gay.

Oh no, a sci-fi series making a character a woman? Like that famous train wreck Battlestar Galactica?

Who cares about Starbuck's gender swap when you have Number Six?

I suppose if you make O'Neill a woman, you could bring in Vala earlier in the series as a similar distraction

Oh, a "Human-Cented" study by AI lover:

Julian Nyarko

    Professor of Law
    Co-Chair Stanford Law AI Initiative
    Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Cented AI (HAI)

LOL!

Ehh, more like Rush would've been found dead like Abbott after declaring "I'm a patriot" to internal CIA. What's tantalizing about Bourne is something about who we are and capable of, regardless of conditioning... both good and bad.

Without the badging I wouldn't have guessed Ferrari.

Agreed. This looks more like a Mustang to me.

Fiat Multipla.

Just stating that consciousness is natural phenomenon is begging the question. We get it... you're a materialist.

Naturalism and materialism are not married together. Materialism can't claim naturalism just for itself. There are coherent ontologies that are naturalists and not materialists.

AGI is the postmodern tower of babel. Ignore.

If you feel that the devices and technology you use are making you the slave, then master it (learn about it and make it your slave) or dump it.

I'm not being unrealistic. I had a facebook account for about 2 years and then decided I had enough of being Zuckerberg's dumbfuck and deleted it. I still keep a gmail account, but I pay for an email account also. At the very extreme are monastics which is a very real thing even today.