@TigoODonnell “Video games are built by people of all political backgrounds”
“Um, actually, this guy is gay. This other guy is black. Checkmate, fascist.”
Entering the age of AI it's roughly uncontroversial consensus that intelligence is the ultimate resource, with its manufacture understood as sole key to industrial and military dominance. This makes it truly wild that the concept of IQ came close to being successfully criminalized. ...
@drnikhile@DrawNear_ Tolkein's idea of evil + the story of the ents and entwives. “There was a time when Saruman would walk in my woods. But now he has a mind of metal and wheels; and he does not care for growing things” - Treebeard talking about Saruman. Sauron is like that too.