Seen this shit before with Reddit's most astroturfed poison producers: Monsanto.
"Glyphosate is so safe that you can drink it." 
"Then drink it. Right now. With the cameras on you." 
"I got to go!" 
Seen this shit before with Reddit's most astroturfed poison producers: Monsanto.
"Glyphosate is so safe that you can drink it."
"Then drink it. Right now. With the cameras on you."
"I got to go!"
I am sorry you have interacted with "the tech community" and their bizarre claim of "long termism" but also hedging their bets and saying they don't really believe that.
I think it's something like the "Narcissist's Prayer" where of course they don't believe it unless their grifting stumbles on something that makes them hope they might become immortal god-kings yet.
I think they earnestly believe it and the real grifting is the "center left" facade they have so they don't get kicked out of the polycule
Up until a few years ago I do recall
getting brought up, uninvited, in almost every left-leaning online community I can think of, usually under some pretense of "but what about ELO~N? He's one of the good ones and (press release copypaste about saving humanity and humans becoming interplanetary species here)" 
I have met many of this one guy in person.
Me too, me too.
CA, especially around Napa Valley, was lousy with them.