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Date: March 22, 2025 11:19PM

you need to think it through and not just be programmed like a robot


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.

Peter Puller Report This Comment
Date: March 23, 2025 02:29AM

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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.

Did Rogan just slip in a "hero worship of the orange guy may be your nation's downfall"?

quasi Report This Comment
Date: March 23, 2025 09:15AM

Anybody who thinks Musk or Trump have empathy for anyone besides themselves is not paying attention. Together they are narcissists r us.

pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: March 27, 2025 07:54PM

"Anybody who thinks Musk or Trump have empathy for anyone besides themselves is not paying attention."

paying attention to what, leftist propaganda?