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Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman among billionaires investing in 'Freedom City' to be built on Greenland (www.uniladtech.com)

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[–] Witziger_Waschbaer@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

These people believe that they will actually defeat death itself with technology. It is part of their ideology. Look into transhumanism and how the tech bros heavily buy into the idea that they will outlive us all because they assume themselves to be superior. Thiel openly says so in that Antichrist NYT interview.

Survival of the richest by Douglas Rushkoff (professor of media theory and the guy who coined terms like 'viral media' and 'digital native') is a very interesting read on that.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's not bad though (having a go at death itself, we're mere machines so why not), we have alleviated suffering and early death with medicine for centuries. They? They are illiterate morons when it comes to biology and will believe anything grifters will sell them, like cold treatments, injecting stem cells and whatever other "silver bullet" treatment. Almost funny how they are getting fooled if it wasn't diverting so much effort away from real progress.

[–] Witziger_Waschbaer@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

Well, can't go with you on that first part. A believe I hold is that in free will and chance/randomness. As a deterministic approach would be a prerequisite for humans to be transfered into states of ones and zeros, it would mean, that everything about us is predetermined and I simply refuse to subscribe to that idea.

But the second part, spot on.