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I am way more worried about these tech illiterates making a police state for fascists and drones that hunt down and kill political dissidents who are upset with the rule of the rich than any fairy tale about skynet

Thanks for letting us know what you are getting breathless about. And what you are not… It’s hard to tell out here in the cheap seats; I haven’t done any coding since 1966.

They also want us to believe AI is all powerful just before their company floats.

If a country, for example, sells a lot of weapons to another country, and that country commits mass murder with those weapons, then, yes, the first country bears some responsibility for that murder. Entire political campaigns have been lost over this. People can try to ostrich their way out of it..

I think Sartre had a fair amount to say on where responsbility fell for World War II... and big surprise, it wasn't just about the failed painter with the bad mustache from Austria.

Not to be too "well actually," but depraved-indifference murder is a real thing

"We need to separate outcome from motive" is only a platitude and so we don't actually need to do it. It's not a like a law of the universe or anything, it's just an empty quip used by the powerful to avoid accountability.

"with posters judge, jury and executioner." hilarious nonsense. who here has the ability to execute a rich tech guy, exactly? mind you, i too would like every one of them to end up at the hague. but that's a SEPARATE topic from whether they want people to die

Oh shut the fuck up you pretentious fuck.

ok but to be clear, they absolutely do intend people to die

This is unbelievably naive

I read it. Awesome book. Much needed.

🧵 bsky.app/profile/xris...

From another direction, it should probably tell us something about how little is required to be a VC (or perhaps just a16z) partner. Shades of "hedge fund analyst" as unemployment insurance for the rich and connected.

They *very much* want people to die.

Oh, and by the way, anybody concerned about the population Crisis could support universal free education. This is proven to reduce the birth rate. Women have fewer children if they have career opportunities through education. This monsters don’t care about people they just want death.

Indeed. And it’s currently actually on his blog if anyone that doubts it wants to read it put so plainly about ethnically cleansing London or hunting down ethnic mintories in Europe. I will not link to it but it’s very much public. Other companies are giving people like this millions.

I did not know this.

Why should we separate outcome from motive? "I didn't mean to kill anybody" is not a serious defense when you drive drunk, so why does that change when your "vehicle" is paperwork?

If they didn't want to kill people, they wouldn't contract with the military, police, or weapons industry

That's a difference without distinction for anyone who isn't them.

you only need to assume that intent matters more than effect if you're trying to build a road to hell some of us don't actually want to do that

Distinction without a difference.

I am genuinely impressed at your ability to average out to more than one misconception per sentence.

That's not better. Being indifferent to the human suffering you cause is also very bad. And if they're also motivated by bigoted animosity, then it suggests the outcomes might not be happenstance

I think both types exist in the richest people in the world, but I think many are of the lack of compassionate empathy type. That being said, even sociopaths/psychopaths and your average bad guy often use empathy, that is cognitive empathy...and even some forms of affective emotional empathy.

And Facebook has experience in helping!

Man, yes. Shit is so fucked.

They became exponentially wealthy from mass death in a global pandemic so furthering fascism has become their true business plan. bsky.app/profile/anil...

What if AI isn't as good as they claim it is? The 1929 stock market crash and the resulting depression wouldn't compare to the economic collapse they would create.

Musk: Mos definitely.

Yeah but the tech tycoons own the newspapers these guys work for

I've encountered two sociopaths in my life (two for certain). Most people are not capable of imagining how they'll behave to other people. And these two I'm referring to are not anywhere close to the these tech tycoons in their ability to inflict harm.

they're trying to justify their actions as a lesser evil but it's getting more and more difficult to come up with a greater evil that's even remotely believable

The media gets their funding from those same companies

Writing about sci-fi nonsense is safe and fun for them. It's better for their career to write hand-wringing, spine-tingling tales about killer robots for baby-brained idiots than it is to write actual stories about real people.

we're past the 'don't care' and into the 'actively promote'

Yeah, I'm more worried about the tech tycoons trying to kill us.

only "in living memory" if you can remember today

They *have* killed people. They will kill more.

TOO TRUE

Exactly. LLMs won’t kill humanity — they just give terrible people a permission structure to engage in the cruelty and misery they so desperately want to inflict already. Skynet is us

And these tech tycoons are seriously weird, cult-type people. I bet you’re up-to-speed on this, but @edzitron.com’s latest Better Offline podcast with Adam Becker and Cal Newport does a deep-dive into how odd they are, how they got there and for how long. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

They literally already have. Musk wasn’t the only one tinkering with doge. And then the ai & social algorithms … all done by human action.

The idolatry of wealth is a sickness of the media class. Being rich doesn’t actually make one smart.