• MysticKetchup@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    So the guy that spent half a year taking away lifesaving aid from starving people now says money is no big deal? Then why spend so much time cutting welfare programs?

    That’s not even starting on the fact that current AI and robots are nowhere near the full automation level for the vast majority of necessary work.

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    Listening to this is as useful as listening a random person yap about the conspiracy theories they believe in. There is no new useful information to be gained. Only there’s a difference. When it’s a random person, at the worst case, they talk about them to try to convince you of said theories, for their own pleasure of convincing themselves that they are right. When it’s a billionaire like this one, at the worst case, they try to persuade everyone and their mother that what they are saying is, not just reasonable, but the absolute truth, and their PR team probably came up with it as a way to make people as likely as possible to hold billionaires accountable for the horrible shit they do. Which means that, in that supposed worst case, which would, mind you, be the most effective way for the billionaire to keep doing business as usual without interruptions, what the billionaire is saying is just a diversion tactic.

    TLDR: Please stop focusing so much on what the billionaire says. They probably don’t really believe in what they’re saying. Please focus instead in the billionaire’s actions, because that’s what they probably don’t want you to do.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 hours ago

    He’s gotta get a trillion dollars no matter what, but believe him when he said it will totally be irrelevant.

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    But somehow his money will still be extremely relevant.

    The billionaires are not going to save us from the billionaires. If we get AGI they absolutely won’t roll it out to the masses, they’ll keep it a secret and just use it within their own businesses.

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      14 hours ago

      hes probably trying to get that 1trillion just to prop up his XAI company, it must losing tons of money from operating datacenters.

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    So communism? I assume the richest man in the world has no interest in the money going worthless. Only talk promising impossible things to leave the AI bubble alive

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      Oh, no, no, feudalism. With the present techbro billionaires as the new aristocracy. Money will be useless because the serfs can’t afford anything anyway and work will be optional yes, you always have the option to starve.

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    22 hours ago

    Nobody with all the money is going to willingly make money irrelevant, unless they can preserve their power in some other fashion.

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      It’s not possible because the people who have the power to make that happen would never let it happen. I don’t care who they are.

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      “Societal and technological advancements need to go hand in hand”

      • Kelly from The Orville

      I think computers are a good [current] example of when tech got ahead of society. Especially the Internet but moreso the ability to make complex systems that don’t require as much direct human interaction.

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    “It’s much harder to grow vegetables in your backyard, but some people still do it because they like growing vegetables,” Musk added.

    The world’s richest man, ladies and gentlemen.

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      Having a backyard or any space to grow plants is a privilege many don’t have, besides the fact that vegetables don’t like extreme climates

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      That is so right up there with some of the scummiest things CEOs have ever said.

      The Heinz CEO tells us to “get used to it” about inflation.

      And then Nestle over there, saying about how water is not a human right.

      These rich fuckheads totally operate on a different world than our own.