There's got to be a new corollary to Poe's Law that says something like "You cannot write a science fiction premise so obviously nightmarish and terrible that some insanely wealthy tech dingbat won't think 'gee, what an awesome idea'"
shame that cryogenics is so out of vogue these days, I could see a huge market for freezing billionaires to some distant time in the future or propose to launch them into space to be left to the randomness of the universe.
How about just setting up a base on the most remote part of Antarctica? It'd be far cheaper and far less dangerous.
Just wait until he comes to grips with his mortality. That’s when the really crazy shit will start to happen.
MUSK: "I have invented a fascinating new way for people to make a long, expensive journey to a new world." A 17th CENTURY ADOLESCENT KID INDENTURED TO A MILLER TO PAY OFF THEIR PASSAGE TO THE NEW WORLD: "hey what the heck."
Can you imagine entrusting your life so completely in such a place to anyone, much less him?
Isn't that just the Torment Nexus meme?
Isn't this just a run of the mill case of capitalists/billionaires fantasising about the return of indentured servitude? Just with a Mar spin this time.
Of course it's the Torment Nexus Axiom, how could I have forgotten
Just be glad he isn’t obsessed with organlegging. Allegedly.
I feel sure that Poe's Law, Rule 34 & the Torment Nexus are all transformations of the same root postulate, but I can't quite work out how to phrase it.