Comment by Larrikin
4 hours ago
All the people in charge currently are banking on being rich, enjoying society as they have made it, and then dead before it personally affects them.
4 hours ago
All the people in charge currently are banking on being rich, enjoying society as they have made it, and then dead before it personally affects them.
I dunno about the last part. Rich people under 60 seem to be under the impression they might live forever, either biologically or digitally. Within our lifetime we see people trying to make their digital twin their legal heir.
I get the longevity angle (even if I think it’s not possible or even desirable) but digital twin I don’t understand. It’s like a different person altogether. Even if it was possible to completely clone a persona digitally it would not be you but someone else.
Much like grooming a natural heir, you can hope that someone will keep your legacy going, make decisions you would make, run your business, and so on.
I can see it as a rational strategy if you're worried successors won't be up to the job.
I totally agree with the ridiculousness of it, but that's not going to stop people with outsized egos from trying. Or companies that are trying to ride the coattails of a cult of personality.
Nah it’s more complicated than that. They need to lie to themselves first. They need to build a scaffold of logic that proves and justifies there actions before they do it.
Hitler for example thought he was justified. And so do all the people who claim global warming isn’t real.