Quinn Slobodian
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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I mean, you know, it's inadequate, but it's at least in line with like most people's sense of, you know, responsibility for their common man.
Whereas what's so striking about Musk is when you take that long termism leap and you say like, you know, that's short term thinking is actually damaging.
Then you end up where Musk is now and you start describing empathy itself as a flaw.
Right.
Right.
So he talks constantly about suicidal empathy, a term he borrows from this Lebanese Canadian psychologist, Godzad, who's very big in the Joe Rogan circuit.
And the argument there is that all this stuff to do with welcoming immigrants, refugees, multiculturalism, the idea of anti-racism is all based on an exploit that we have in our software.
that we need to override for the sake of the greater optimization of the totality.
Well, I mean, Musk is kind of a unique one in that case, right?
Because I would say that previous eras of industrialists often welcomed incoming immigrants as long as they met a kind of physical standard that could be, you know, useful human capital inside of their factories.
But Musk comes to his way of thinking about those populations through his kind of computational methods.
So you mentioned operating system earlier.
It's very much the way Musk sees the world.
The world is a space that works from computers outward.
He first got a programmable Commodore when he was a teenager.
Then he connected to the Internet before he left South Africa.
And ever since then, he's been seeing computers as a kind of control unit for reality.
If you see society that way, then when things happen that are against your material interests, you assume them to be either bugs or viruses or failed programming in the system that needs to be fixed.
And if you look closely, as what we do in our chapter of the book, which we call State Acts,
If you look at the way he talked about what he was doing at Doge, he said not only that he was reprogramming the Matrix, but that he was in there to get rid of the bugs, the viruses, the bots, and the vampires, and the non-player characters, the NPCs, right?
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