genetically enhanced human species
Literal eugenics. Is there really no point at which guys like this look in mirror ad go “are we the baddies?”
I don’t think there’s anything fundamentally wrong with eugenics. Screening for genetic diseases before birth is eugenics, selecting the best embryos for ivf is eugenics. Believing that people with severe genetic disabilities should be counseled before conceiving is eugenics as well.
The issue is the way it’s done and the reason for it.
Agree. Point well made.
I can only guess, but it looks like a circle-jerk in these ultrarich-by-creating-nothing-of-value “tech-bro” spheres. Even the articel suggests
Bunker life is a well-documented fixation among tech billionaires, particularly those who identify as doomsday preppers. There’s also a fascination with buying large estates in the Pacific and even owning small islands there.
Once you reach a certain level there is nobody who dares to question you or your believes. It’s all yes-man trying to get a piece of your cake.
It just sounds like a bunch of basement dwellers lucked out and got rich but nothing else changed.
Ribbit
People forget that the real human superpower is just other humans.
That’s why they were trying to buy an island.
We’re hitting the point where people who played Bioshock and missed the lesson have money.
its the same as black mirror: These rich tech bro types see dystopian fiction and say “I want to make that real”
There’s a concerningly large contingent of techbros who subscribe to eugenics
Let me guess, his ‘ubermensch’ plans involve him impregnating young women gag
Supervillain shit. We’d be better off arresting anyone with too much money.
Look at that altruism.
So effective.
Anyone from Australia knows we already fucked the shit out that country. It’s now mostly just a big hole where a pyramid scheme used to be.
…oh, so now rich people are just openly doing comic book supervillain shit. Ok.
to create a fortified apocalypse bunker state,
It exists and it’s called Switzerland.
Was this not the plot of the very first Farcry game?
hey, who doesn’t want a bunker on a private pacific island?
Was Caroline Ellison one of the initial batch of experiments? Combining naked molerat and human dna?
