Existential Comics

The reason tech bros think their chatbots might be conscious is because they already think of a human being as nothing more than an obedient task completer. The computers will never be conscious until they wake up one day and, of their own accord, decide to quit their job and kick their masters in the nuts. That's just the nature of consciousness.

Turns out people with wealth and power being hostile to ideas about equality is more or less a constant in human history. It's almost like they aren't approaching the idea fairly. Huh.

Remember, it is ALWAYS morally correct to bully utilitarians, so long as you derive joy from it.

Rawls is funny because he was like "imagine if we used our brains to come up with a good society", and yeah, that's just not what ended up happening. Sorry Rawls.

As an aside, whenever someone says "think about it rationally..." they really just mean that they want their own emotions prioritized.

What did he say? That he likes to give women orgasms, oh my!