We should invent some sort of entity to watch out for our collective interest to govern, if you will.
I’m sick of pretending these men aren’t mentally ill. Every last one of them should be in Arkham Asylum
There’s evidence that extreme amounts of wealth and power do drive one mad. One study had people play monopoly with one player (chosen at random) starting in a privileged position (e.g. extra starting money, and twice the income passing go). They became assholes really quick, and believed their victory in the game was due to superior playing.
But it gets crazy when you’re so rich that no one will disagree with you about anything. Surrounded by sycophants, it becomes easy to assume you’re the smartest person in the room and expert of everything.
Some world cultures see it as an illness just to hoard massive amounts of wealth, but here in the states we nurtured a culture in which superlative wealth became a common ambition. Especially after the California gold rush, and get-rich-quick schemes became the norm.
Oh god, billionaires have been experiencing AI psychosis before AI, that’s why they don’t see any issue with it.
Capitalism rewards narcissism. It’s the system
any mechanisms for returning to coherent government model must include non-deteriorating beyond not beying able to extradite from south america. we need friends and allies there
What we need is a French Revolution. Off with their heads. Nothing of value would be lost if the genAI tech bros all became a head lighter… or a body lighter if you prefer.
They always gotta go argentina
All ceos.
For Nuremberg trials we would have to win the war first.
I read it as Nuremberg laws at first. Not what I would call it.
Me when a gambling corpo is my souse of news
Good luck with that. After the center left governments got removed all initiatives to develop internet infrastructure in the region stopped expanding.
The internet service down there is expensive compared to the rest of the country.
“undeveloped” is such bullshit and really always was.
Years ago in my hometown there was a developer that wanted to expand the parking lot of the stripmall he owned into a wooded lotone of his major reasons he gave was that “it was just trees” so there was no real loss… For some people if there isn’t a profit being derived from the land then its worthless.
In my opinion they are building the infrastructure for a fully automated surveillance society, for automated media manipulation, and to remove humans out of the kill chain in the military, while dismantling the rest of what remains of the middle class. We are going straight into high-tech dark ages / feudalism. Shadowrun and Cyberpunk, here we come. (Edit: the only thing i am not sure about here is if we will have corporations with more power than nation states, or nation states having absolute control over corporations and using them in proxy wars. Time will tell.)
Russia with its limited AI development seems to already have deployed fully automated killing machines (Powered by NVidias Jetson Orin module). The US aim for the same, and everyone else who doesn’t want to become a vassal state will have to follow suite.
When i think of this future, the only picture my mind can produce is Black Mirror - Metalhead.
Edit: If used for these tasks, it’s also not important if inference is something you can make money with. OpenAI, Anthropic and the Neoclouds are a grave for billions of dollars - but that doesn’t matter if the rewards are non-monetary.
Fully automated killing machines?
Broadly agree, but I think that there is about a 1% chance of working out with the billionaires in control. They will just get their assets expropriated when a war occurs, or the AI will just take over once given the tools.
The billionaires are the ones footing the bill and thinking they will be the “new gods” in their restructured society. In reality, nation states will use this technology to make sure that they can’t be touched, regardless of how brutal and inhumane their regime is.
In some way, the billionaires are just some stooges getting scammed into developing the chains that will bind us all.
It’s a very hospitable climate. We should drop all the CEOs off down there.
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…and this is why the united states wants to get rid of the ICC so badly.
Isn’t Patagonia basically pristine and undeveloped because it is very remote and hard to develop. And from that highway documentary I remember also big parts are private property
big parts are private property
Surely that makes them easier to buy and develop on than if they were publically owned? Or am I missing your point?
Big sales are easier with consolidated ownership vs disaggregated ownership.
If you need all 1000 acres to get from point a to point b to build something but requires 1000 different people to individually agree it may be next to impossible compared to needing 30 government officials to agree.
There is a reason eminent domain is used so much in the US vs private transactions for large projects. The Dakota access pipeline for example could be done through private purchases, but it’s basically so impossible that not approving forced government sales through eminent domain was consider “blocking” it.
