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[–] 16 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

To be fair, Musk probably didn't know he was interacting with bots. His ego is probably taking a nose dive as well.

“Woah, Elon Musk out here getting less than 5k likes on his tweets after the bot farm got exploded,” YouTuber Zack “Jerry Rig Everything” Nelson tweeted. A screenshot appended to the post shows Musk receiving 4,900 likes after responding “Wow” to a racist conspiracy theory that claims Brussels, Belgium, is “only 10.5 percent white.”

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    Arendt explains that totaliarianist wet dreams is to build up an humanity of robots. The techbros have the same kind of dreams, bot or people, I guess it doesn't change much for a guy like Musk. I believe that's why they are so enthusiastically professing that we are all going to be replaced by AI. It is the other way around, to build some humanitized robots to replace the human who are reluctant to be robotized.

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  • [–] 1 point 14 hours ago (1 child)

    I couldn't find this hannah arendt text about robots, any chance you can share this 🙏 ?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

    I'll check. I read it in the French version of Totalitarianism. I have an ebook of the english version somewhere.

    In the french version the term "robot" is used when she argues that totalitarian people are not like religious fanatics. At war, they are not sacrifying themselves. They are not dying as martyrs but as robots.

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