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Young people increasingly don't trust AI - or the billionaires that keep telling us we should all love AI, survey finds (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 67 points 2 months ago (8 children)

AI is just one of several serious existential threats the kids will have to deal with. They're far from alright.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    "The kids are alright" does not mean that the world where the kids live is alright, it means that the kids are alright. 😅

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    We got THIS close to being done with nicotine and bullshit in the air in daily life, and then the kids discovered vaping.

    At best, the kids are in the aggregate no better or worse than the generations before them. No generation is going to save us from stupid when stupid is part of our species' DNA.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Bro. The kids are alright. Not pristine perfect beings who will being about a new era of prosperity.

    Besides, why you putting it on "the kids discovered vaping"? That sounds like something a billionaire would say to deflect from the huge lobbying campaign they made to distinguish vapes from cigarettes.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    To me it means: the kids are healthy and secure, and coping with the world with a reasonable prospect of a good future. But I agree that it's a good thing that they aren't entirely duped by the abusers of AI, if that's what you mean.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The Epstein class is their biggest threat by far. AI and what they do on private islands are just two of many reasons to get rid of billionaires.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    I agree. I really don't understand why society tolerates, let alone promotes and idolizes, billionaires, while median net worth remains below $200,000, and probably much lower in most of the rest of the world. I don't think everyone should be forced to be exactly equal but the current disparity between median and Elon is more than 6 orders of magnitude, depending on the day of the week, and even to your average barely a billionaire it is more than 3 orders of magnitude. It's excessive, and looking at how society is going, fairly clearly unhealthy for everyone involved.

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