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[–] 63 points 3 months ago (14 children)

Sam Altman and others have publicly stated (something to the effect that) the end goal is for AI to replace workers. There is no amount of money too big for a capitalist to bet on that outcome, especially if they deem it plausible.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    And then who buys the products 🫠

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    They buy products from each other, and shut out more and more people if society.

    You see the homeless drug addict on the street? They want more of that.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    They buy products from each other and shut themselves from society.

    Which is not a bad outcome.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Except they take all of the land and resources with them. You posit the billionaires have a fully automated robotic industry at their whim and they will leave any scraps for the rest of us? It would be judgment day from the Terminator series, except instead of a super intelligent Skynet AGI mowing down humanity it would be psychopathic pedophiles.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    When we only have white cishet billionaires, we can abolish money.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Don't forget about the other big players! Jensen Hwang, Lisa Su, Lip-Bu Tan, Satya Nadella, plus the memory cartel (Samsung, SK Hynix, etc.)

    This particular war is a class war.

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    Sorry, forgot about a few. Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai... Honestly, it'd probably be easier to list the white cishet billionaires in tech than it would be to list the exceptions. There's tons of them outside of tech, probably the majority tbh, but within tech it's far too diverse.

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