That and they’re on the pedo peddlers Rolodex. It’s starting to scream of CYA.
This is seriously messed up:
He then concluded that the “best humane alternative to genocide” is to “virtualize” these people: Imprison them in “permanent solitary confinement” where, to avoid making them insane, they would be connected to an “immersive virtual-reality interface” so they could “experience a rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world.”
Yarvin’s disturbing manifestos have earned him influential followers, chief among them: tech billionaire Peter Thiel and his onetime Silicon Valley protégé Senator J.D. Vance
That’s a real thing that someone said?
Apparently. It’s also roughly the plot to The Matrix. And to Halo4, to an extent. And that episode of Black Mirror