I can’t say anything here that is any worse than what was verbatim said in the title. 
Thanks I just vomited a little
The human machine collective will just be a cacaphony of “unroll this thread”
I thought bots were the problem musk was going to solve. So he’s given up on that?
Their woke bots.
His human-machine collective that will bring the light of consciousness to the stars
Not at all, comrade. He’s going to solve it by transcending to such a high level of bot, with trillions of posts per second on every major social media, that no other bot could compete.
Yes by deliberatly promoting fasicsm, account locking and blocking anyone who doesn’t have an account from browsing or refrencing you’re really creating the next AleXandrea. More like Frothandrea
- on his VALIS arc
stroke soon? 👀
stroke soon queen? 👀
stroke soon? 👀
elon musks exegenesis is me putting my boot through the roof of his mouth
The Human-Machine Collective? I remember that secret project in Alpha Centauri, it had a really cool video.
I can believe
bumbled through that game a few times, said “based” to things he didn’t fully comprehend or understand, and probably jerked off while watching the FMV cutscene where the automated city locks in the graffiti taggers that marked “WE MUST DISSENT” on the wall. He always played as CEO Morgan.
Ever met chuds that quoted him directly and hated black people but saw Nwambudike Morgan as “the good one” because he acted articulate enough?
The fash are out here boldly embracing their borg shit now
“The Borg are communists”
“The Borg are capitalists”
Especially after the Borg Queen was retconned into existence. The entire collective became subject to one individual’s whims, which were often short-sighted and petty as presented on screen, sometimes sacrificing thousands of Borg just to dab on Janeway.
Absolutely, the Queen was a great addition. But that wasn’t until the movie though, right? I think the Borg were always meant to represent capitalism. Other than the word “collective” there really wasn’t anything communist in the way they were presented in the show, IMO. I think they borrowed a lot from Terminator, which was a massive cultural thing at the time they were introduced.
At least that was my perception from mostly watching just TNG and DS9, with very little experience of the Borg in Voyager, which probably had a majority of the Borg content between the three series now that I think about it.
I still suspect the Borg were meant to be scary space collectivists perceived through a capitalist realist lens, and I think the liberals running the franchise done goofed and made their clumsy space straw-communists more and more capitalist as time went on.
I’ve always read the Borg as a criticism of Star Trek fans who took the wrong message from the show. The Borg initially in the first few episodes didn’t assimilate people, they only cared about taking technology. Their ships are technological masterpieces but have no function other than to make more of itself. The first drone the Enterprise encounters disregards the characters and only cares about figuring out how the spaceship works.
I took this as a criticism of Star Trek fans who disregard the humanity of the show, who disregard the social messages and instead focus entirely on the cool spaceships and teleporters. The Borg are like if the Federation never cared about social causes or equality. That’s why they make such good parallels. The Federation hates how the Borg disregard humanity, the Bord don’t understand why humanity is important if you can be a machine.
teleporters
The “transporters can do anything and can win every battle and make everything in the spaceship show, including the spaceships, obsolete” fans are the worst.
That’s possible. I know for sure at least some of the writers are self identified dem socs. What I personally think happened was using the word “collective” was how they sold the idea to the executive that was calling all the shots on the show. Star Trek writers and actors are notorious for intentionally going behind the backs of their executives and forcing through the messaging or artistic vision that they had.
For instance, like when Rick Berman forced them to make Elim Garak a straight character and literally everyone involved in the show, actors, writers etc. went forward with making the character gay without the producer noticing.
I heard that Jeri Ryan’s Seven of Nine character was only given reasonably good character development because Kate Mulgrew threatened to walk otherwise. Seven was originally there for pure
factor and the promotional material at the time for the show was exactly that.
There’s a Dril tweet in here somewhere, I can feel it.
Just word jumble, none of this means anything.
WeChat isn’t the “collective consciousness” of China either. Musk is just saying random words to dazzle his fans.
WeChat isn’t the “collective consciousness” of China either. Musk is just saying random words to dazzle his fans.
What sucks is it works. His fans are dazzled.
This shit is just such a facile understanding of how emergence and consciousness both work, too. Facilitating low-latency and high-bandwidth communication between people certainly might eventually give rise to an emergent set of patterns at a higher level of organization, but we have absolutely no reason to think those emergent patterns will look anything like consciousness. In fact, we have lots of reasons to think they won’t look anything like any of the interesting aspects of their constituent parts. In the same way that brains aren’t just “neurons, but on a bigger scale,” we should expect an emergent organism built out of humans and brains to be anything like brains writ large. It’s almost impossible to imagine a scenario where anything like what we recognize as consciousness is preserved in the higher-level organism.
Of course even setting all that aside, the idea that this dumpster fire of a website (or any website for that matter) is going to give rise to novel emergent behavior like this is just pure
This is the same guy who said we’d be on Mars by 2024, in like 2008. This guy doesn’t know shit
