Ha! No, Musk can't have whatever values he has. His values impinge on the world around him. And that impingement will result in a recoil counter-impingement. Our society is still liberal. So such people are allowed a lot of slack. But there is a price to pay somewhere, by someone, for such hubris.
E.g. more Rationalism at work: My Experience with Leverage Research https://scribe.rip/@zoecurzi/my-experience-with-leverage-research-17e96a8e540b Common knowledge about Leverage Research 1.0 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Kz9zMgWB5C27Pmdkh/common-knowledge-facts-about-leverage-research-1-0-1 On 11/2/21 2:39 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > And referencing your hilarious "let them eat space" remark, one can > distinguish between saving the design or prototype for human life from the > current instances of life. Democratic government is concerned with > governing, supposedly on behalf of the instances, and Musk can whatever > values he has. On 11/2/21 2:04 PM, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: > > Let them eat space! Elon Musk and the race to end world hunger > https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/02/elon-musk-race-hunger-world-food-programme-global-disaster > >> Musk’s excuse for not handing over a tiny portion of his wealth to the WFP >> is hardly original. Billionaires love to sorrowfully declare that they are >> dying to pay more tax, but they can’t bear to see their money used >> inefficiently, so, for everyone’s sake, they had better hoard it instead. >> Last week, in response to a (very short-lived) plan by the Democrats to tax >> billionaires, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said he would happily part with more >> of his dosh if there were assurances it would be spent well. “If we could >> find solutions where the money could be directed in a proper way, I have >> more to give.” Fellow billionaire Ray Dalio also said he would willingly pay >> more tax if it accomplished “greater productivity” but sadly, he wasn’t sure >> that it did. Musk, meanwhile, insinuated that he was doing us all a favour >> by not paying more tax. “My plan is to use the money to get humanity to Mars >> and preserve the light of consciousness,” he tweeted last Thursday. A couple >> of days later he darkly warned that a billionaire tax would trickle down. >> “Eventually they run out of other people’s money, and then they come for >> you.” > > > -- "Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie." ☤>$ uǝlƃ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
