03-25-2025, 11:36 PM
sekker wrote:
[quote=pdq]
Musk says empathy is “suicidal” - a “fundamental weakness of Western civilization”.
I’m sorry if you found me empathetic, or possibly non-empathetic. I certainly hope no Cybertrucks were harmed.
…please note that the site you linked to was largely clickbait. A short snippet designed to enrage rather than inform.
Snopes is a clickbait site? …“designed to enrage rather than inform”?
Geez, who is it that’s living in an information bubble?
…and this is a “short snippet”? (Described, BTW, as “Here’s his full quote” in the piece’s title.
Musk: There's a guy who posts on X who's great, Gad Saad?
Rogan: Yeah, he's a friend of mine. He's been on the podcast a bunch of times.
Musk: Yeah, he's awesome, and he talks about, you know, basically suicidal empathy. Like, there's so much empathy that you actually suicide yourself. So, we've got civilizational suicidal empathy going on. And it's like, I believe in empathy, like, I think you should care about other people, but you need to have empathy for, for civilization as a whole, and not commit to a civilizational suicide.
Rogan: Also don't let someone use your empathy against you so they can completely control your state and then do an insanely bad job of managing it and never get removed.
Musk: The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. The empathy exploit. They're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response. So, I think, you know, empathy is good, but you need to think it through and not just be programmed like a robot.
Rogan: Right, understand when empathy has been actually used as a tool.
Musk: Yes, like, it's weaponized empathy is the issue.
Sheesh, sekker, what’s happened to you? It’s like the body-snatchers traded you out.