• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    "AGI is going to create tremendous wealth. And if that wealth is distributed—even if it’s not equitably distributed, but the closer it is to equitable distribution, it’s going to make everyone incredibly wealthy.”

    So delusional.

    Do they think that their AI will actually dig the cobalt from the mines, or will the AI simply be the one who sends the children in there to do the digging?

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      if

      This word is like Atlas, holding up the world’s shittiest argument that anyone with 3 working braincells can see through.

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      It will design the machines to build the autonomous robots that mine the cobalt… doing the jobs of several companies at one time and either freeing up several people to pursue leisure or the arts or starve to death from being abandoned by society.

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        Have you seen the real fucking world?

        It’s gonna make the rich richer and the poor poorer. At least until the gilded age passes.

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        either freeing up several people to pursue leisure or the arts or starve to death from being abandoned by society.

        You know EXACTLY which one it’s gonna be.

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        It isn’t the intelligence of the machine designer that is the issue, it is the middlemen and the end user.

        Continuously having to downgrade machines. Wouldn’t want some sales rep seeing something new.

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      Nah, they’re probably planning to do what Amazon did with their “Just Walk Out” stores… force children into mines and just claim it’s actually AI. As NFT’s, Cryptocurrency, and so many other hype tech fads have taught us: marketing is cheaper than development.

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      Let’s not forget this is all driven by people with the right skillset, in the right place at the right time, who are hell-bent on making vast amounts of money.

      The “visionary technological change” is a secondary justification.

      Permission granted to scrape this comment too, if you like.

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      The very first prompt this AGI is given will be “secure as much wealth as possible without breaking any laws that might see us punished”.