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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽
@georgetakei@universeodon.com  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

This honestly explains a lot.

Tweet by Matt Duss quoting Socrates—“The unexamined life is not worth living”—in response to a post about billionaire Marc Andreessen saying he has no introspection. The image shows Andreessen seated at a table in a studio interview setting, wearing a dark sweater and smiling slightly.
Tweet by Matt Duss quoting Socrates—“The unexamined life is not worth living”—in response to a post about billionaire Marc Andreessen saying he has no introspection. The image shows Andreessen seated at a table in a studio interview setting, wearing a dark sweater and smiling slightly.
Tweet by Matt Duss quoting Socrates—“The unexamined life is not worth living”—in response to a post about billionaire Marc Andreessen saying he has no introspection. The image shows Andreessen seated at a table in a studio interview setting, wearing a dark sweater and smiling slightly.
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Phracker
@Phracker2Art@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei
Wait, isn't realizing that you have zero introspection a form of introspection?

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AdventureTense
@adventure_tense@mapstodon.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei I'm a bit surprised Mark didn't refer to Introspection as "woke". :-/

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JakeKb
@JakeKb@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei I am certain he will have a lot of introspection when walking up the stairs to the guillotine.

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clonedhuman
@clonedhuman@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei A 2021 study https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7935085/ measuring political attitudes correlating with damage to different sections of the brain found
"...people with frontal lesions held more conservative (or less liberal) beliefs than those with anterior temporal lobe lesions or no lesions. Additional analyses predicting ideology by extent of damage provided convergent evidence that greater damage in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex—but not the amygdala—was associated with greater conservatism."

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Artstories
@art_histories@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei Yes, narcissists and psychopaths tend to not know what introspection is.

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FluffyBunnikins
@FluffyBunnikins@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei

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SecondUniverse (she/her/they)
@SecondUniverse@autistics.life replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei

Q: Are you leading a just life?

A: Never thought about it. I just do stuff randomly. Introspection is woke. My spirit animal is a jellyfish.

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Cardboard Robot
@CardboardRobot@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei It's like bragging that you only want to eat Big Macs, EVER! Yeah when you're six years old.

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Tim Zee
@ilust606@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei
Touché to Matt!

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Nantucket Lit
@nantucketlit@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei People like this Andreessen fellow are the people who Socrates went after in his dialogues, and who eventually persecuted Socrates.

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Tâi Siáu-káu 台痟狗 ㄊㄇㄉ 🇳🇫 台灣國
@TimMaddog@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

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⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe
@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei i want to know how he knows he has zero introspection

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Toni Aittoniemi
@gimulnautti@mastodon.green replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei Philosophy is so woke

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Scott D. Strader 😐
@sstrader@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei These people are like a naive kid who finds out they can say anything they want to on the internet, but then they have to live the rest of their lives being mocked by others for the stupid things they say. History is those others that will be mocking Andreessen, Thiel, Musk, Altman, etc. But unfortunately they're adults and don't have that amygdala-prefrontal excuse to explain their behavior.

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A. No, née: Moose
@A_No_nee_Moose@nrw.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei so if he doesn't use his head, he won't mind losing it, do I understand that right?

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Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷
@Tooden@aus.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei Marc Andreessen's lack of introspection is as big as his philanthropic efforts. Talk about a tax dodge.🙄🤦‍♀️👎💩
Dishonesty comes in many forms.

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The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉
@ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei FFS even the word "introspection" isn't modern. It dates back to the 17th century in English but derives from the ancient Latin *introspectus", meaning to look within. Why are these billionaires so willfully, proudly ignorant?

I'm starting to think some of them are philosophical zombies - in that they have no inner lives - which perhaps explains why they think chatbots might be people and other humans are expendable.

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ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘
@anne_twain@theblower.au replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei Thereby proving his lack of education.

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LAUREN
@noondlyt@hellions.cloud replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei

Billionaires are all sociopaths. They may not have started out that way but they ALL become it in the end.

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Anton Sherwood
@tonwood@mathstodon.xyz replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei I am introspective enough to distrust introspection.

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽
@georgetakei@universeodon.com replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@tonwood #Deep

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Flowermob
@Flowermob@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei We don't hate billlionaires enough. #TaxbillionairesOutofExistence

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Richard R Lee
@InfoMgmtExec@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

#TechBros - #TechOligarchs - #ShitForBrains. #GriftersGonnaGrift in #Trumpistan.
@georgetakei

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gmsizemore
@gmsizemore@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei From a purely epistemological standpoint, he's probably right. Words that refer to mental states, for example, were once (i.e., etymologically) frank references to behavior. A certain segment of the population appears to have no "mental imagery" at all. They can report other "private events," though...

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Hot Dog Water
@GGMcBG@mstdn.plus replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei

Only way to sleep when you know you're responsible for all kinds of death and misery that didn't have to happen except for your own wanky dumbass lonely loser jollies. Pigass pig.

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⏚ Antoine Chambert-Loir
@antoinechambertloir@mathstodon.xyz replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei in a normal world, such self-absorbed ignorant parasites should be kicked out in a way or another, and not given the opportunity to make us endure their infatuation.

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FurballsNHairballs
@ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei
Thanks to Reagan , billionaires are a modern invention.

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Nutriamix
@nutriamix@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei

Oh, to be so dim, yet so obscenely wealthy. It’s clear he has nothing in common with the rest of society.

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Belakor
@nurglerider@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei This is just more of the "empathy is bad" crowd's absolute bullshit.

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Sundew
@sundew@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei He's making statements about his own mind, but he doesn't think he has _any_ introspection? blobcat_think

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Alun Jones
@ftp_alun@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei

The first known use of introspection was circa 1677, according to Merriam-Webster
The first known use of introspection was circa 1677, according to Merriam-Webster
The first known use of introspection was circa 1677, according to Merriam-Webster
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Tofu Golem
@tofugolem@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei
So when he says "modern" he means "anything after the invention of writing, when people immediately started recording what philosophers were saying?

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nick
@nickzoic@aus.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei "Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? Morons!"

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billy joe bowers 🗽
@billyjoebowers@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei

I'm not saying every billionaire is a shallow empty husk, but enough of them are.

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Alpha Christ
@alphachrist@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei so yeah he's a sociopath.

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Rick d Card
@Rick_d_card@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei he needs his 3 braincells for breathing, blinking and walking at the same time. None left over for other tasks.

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Spocko
@spocko@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei

Who has the most cartoon villain like views of the world?

Hint, only one of them was acting.

Marc Andreessen and Egghead from Batman 1966
Marc Andreessen and Egghead from Batman 1966
Marc Andreessen and Egghead from Batman 1966
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GhostOnTheHalfShell
@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei

You mean, totally unlike Buddhism

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TheNovemberFella ✊🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦☸️🛰️🚀
@TheNovemberMan@bookstodon.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei Truth

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StarkRG@myside-yourside.net
@StarkRG@myside-yourside.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei I think that the capacity for introspection is a key component of what makes someone a person and not just a meat golem. And I'm not just talking about Homo Sapiens, whatever the other components are, if a species has them, including introspection, then they're people.

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Charlotte Blackman
@TheTannhauserGate@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei He's clearly an uneducated billionaire.

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penpencilbrush🇨🇦
@penpencilbrush@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei These are truly the most uneducated people.
And by educated I do not mean formal education. A degree does not make you 'educated.'

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John Breen
@jab01701mid@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei Nobody needs Marc. He's a modern invention.

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Amy Edge :toad:
@amyedge@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@georgetakei
He's compensating for that head.

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