Tech plutocrats like Thiel and Elon Musk already have money, now they want power. Why tech billionaires are aligning with the Trump Vance ticket.

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Apparently. It's also roughly the plot to The Matrix. And to Halo4, to an extent. And that episode of Black Mirror

Pretty much "Science fiction warns us of the evils of building the Torment Nexus. Let's tell people why a Torment Nexus is really great and build one!"

The only possible positive use for the torment nexus is to put torment nexus supporters in it.

How about we just outlaw and not build orphan crushing machines?

thats the idea. We will hook up people to use them like batteries and tell everyone on the outside its not horrible, painful, torture because we have them in a virtual utopia. Can I go to the utopia. no its just for bad people.