Marc Andreessen is proof that p-zombies exist:

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@cstross funny how his go to example is "build Walmart", a company that famously relies on the state to feed their employers while crowding out all competition. Of course, he doesn't find it funny at all, that would require some introspection.

[woozle@toot.cat]

@cstross "I don't understand it and I find it threatening, so I'm going to diss it so that people will stop talking about it."

[solardavy@climatejustice.social]

@cstross kinda funny to claim that introspection has no meaning, while talking in a podcast about why you do things a certain way and why people are successful.

[bazzargh@hachyderm.io]

@cstross "The unexamined life is not worth living", said Socrates, a very modern guy

[sbisson@mastodon.social]

@cstross He's stuck inside the Cave.

[jimfl@hachyderm.io]

@cstross Doesn’t it require introspection to determine you have zero introspection?

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@cstross AI psychosis.

[specialcase@mstdn.social]

@cstross We have about a week until someone is unironically selling “Philosophical Zombie” on Hacker News.

This has got me thinking that Musk’s “woke mind virus” utterance was actually him (a p-zombie) reacting to the existence of people with conscious experience.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@cstross high-throughput bullshit generation.

[tattie@eldritch.cafe]

@cstross very strong "thinking was invented by the Jews, therefore, I do not" energy.