SNL opened last night with a skit featuring an official at “CIR headquarters” giving a briefing to five “Big Tech leaders” on how to avoid being seduced by a beautiful woman who is actually a spy.
It relies, of course, on the stereotype of brilliant nerds with low social IQ — you know, Musk, Zuckerberg, Altman, Thiel, and Amodei.
And while it’s easy to laugh at these uncomfortably overhyped billionaires, the Huang sex scandal is a reminder of just how dependent humanity has become on their choices, possibly even to the point where the survival of our species is threatened.
They say that dark humor is a way for us to process traumatic subjects, like death, crime, illness, and human suffering.
If so, this joke is on us because we may be about to laugh ourselves to death.
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