" #Musk sometimes refers to people he holds in contempt as “NPCs,” videogame speak for characters who aren’t controlled by players & thus have no agency... the term, I think, reveals something about his worldview. He either doesn’t view most other people as entirely real or doesn’t see the point of treating them as such. As he told Joe Rogan... “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is #empathy,” referring to the emotion as a “bug” in our system."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/elon-musk-doge-usaid.html
