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Irish_Dem

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1. Yes they have some sort of end game along these lines.
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 04:50 PM
Friday

They are not deliberately destroying the country that made them billionaires without
a strong Plan B. And they have been aware for decades that climate change is coming
and what it means for the world.

And yes they are perfectly willing to destroy the world and the people on it to get richer
and richer. But what good is their money, they cannot take it with them. And yes they
are bored. How many beach houses, yachts, Paris condos can you have until it means
nothing at all.

Unless they think AI will help them.

And yes they are not spending $$ billions on data centers so people can look up college test material and funny cat videos. They have some ulterior motive.

I do wonder why they are in such a hurry to annihilate the US govt.
Why not let the peasants live a bit longer in ignorant bliss?

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Billionaires Endgame [View all] clevergrrrl Friday OP
Yes they have some sort of end game along these lines. Irish_Dem Friday #1
"Why not let the peasants live a bit longer in ignorant bliss?" clevergrrrl Friday #2
Yes of course. They are done sharing THEIR resources. Irish_Dem Friday #16
Just now reading Ed Zitron's latest erronis Friday #17
Jebus. Irish_Dem Friday #19
As many have said, the AI bubble will put the 1929 crash and 2008 subprime mortgage debacle to shame. erronis Friday #20
And not a damn thing we can do about it. Irish_Dem Friday #21
Anybody watch Alien:Earth? JBTaurus83 Friday #3
They have had a lot of practice clevergrrrl Friday #6
As a matter of semantics, if you can download your mind/brain/self/soul into a set of memory banks ... Intractable Friday #4
That's the big debate among the transhumanists clevergrrrl Friday #5
If you were fully aware JBTaurus83 Friday #7
I've always thought it was a ridiculous notion. clevergrrrl Friday #9
They can't even JBTaurus83 Friday #11
Ironically, all they're really perpetuating are their egos misanthrope Friday #14
Not very practical. dickthegrouch Friday #8
Yup, like playing a videogame clevergrrrl Friday #10
Billionaires should fear their souls, they can't control or change it. pwb Friday #12
One caveat misanthrope Friday #13
Ira Levin canetoad Friday #15
As frightening as all that sounded to me when I first read about Yarvin, Thiel, et.al... Marie Marie Friday #18
Is that living? Would we really want to live forever? Why? IcyPeas Friday #22
Seriously róisín_dubh Yesterday #24
Bizarrely, magats conflate transhumanism with transgenderism. TommyT139 Yesterday #23
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