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The Tech Bros and the Future of Humanity

Tech bros want to be without as anything from the waist down in the metaverse that's a happier you know I mean that's the existence that they want so the apocalypse climate change species disappearance all becomes an excuse to build out this bizarre fantasy but for them I think it's a positive fantasy not not a real one. The tech bros are like Jeremy Bentham who was a great philosopher he had this thing called utilitarianism and you just try to look for a sort of a met almost a mathematical way of letting's pick our policies and behaviors based on what's going to benefit the most good for the most people. They put that on digital steroids and what they get is effective altruism

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