The AI dooooooom thread

[Tamas]

It is ridiculous. We are accelerating global warming, pushing the world economy to the brink, all so we can have more verbose emails and very lifelike fake images.

[Grey Fox]

and vast reduction in wages payed. The rich get richer.

[Razgovory]

It is ridiculous. We are accelerating global warming, pushing the world economy to the brink, all so we can have more verbose emails and very lifelike fake images.

These people genuinely think they are going to create a technological singularity.  They would destroy the entire economy in their mad quest for immortality.

[Jacob]

and vast reduction in wages payed. The rich get richer.

... combined with a significant costs for consumer goods.

[Jacob]

These people genuinely think they are going to create a technological singularity.  They would destroy the entire economy in their mad quest for immortality.

I remember years ago reading about Thiel funding biotech technology that promised a form of immortality derived from the blood of young people. If it had been fiction I would have derided it as being to obnoxiously didactic a metaphor.

Also these billionaires really do seem to want to set themselves up as demi-gods.

[HisMajestyBOB]

This is why billionaires are bad.
If we had stronger taxes and anti-trust laws this could have been avoided.

[garbon]

This is why billionaires are bad.
If we had stronger taxes and anti-trust laws this could have been avoided.

Yes, they are indeed terrible for society.