can’t tell at this point if these guys actually believe the hype and have brain damage or just want fiefdoms to crush the poors and don’t really care whether the self-assembling robot humanoids are real or not - ThreadSky

merrittk.com • 19 days ago

can’t tell at this point if these guys actually believe the hype and have brain damage or just want fiefdoms to crush the poors and don’t really care whether the self-assembling robot humanoids are real or not

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Balaji Srinivasan suggests giving Elon Musk “control of a huge swath of land surrounding Starbase, Texas” & designate that land as “a military base or … similar, so that [Musk] can fence it off & determine at his sole discretion who can enter.” Then replicate in other states w/ other Tech Bros. 1/

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drbirdman.bsky.social•19 days ago

Everyone who loses their job in the looming recession will have a spot in some oligarch loser’s ’work camp’ I’m sure- all those middle managers will be happy to staff an assembly line

ill-omens.itch.io•19 days ago

I mean it's both, right? They buy their own bs enough to believe they deserve to rule over the poor, that they're the ones whose hands should be on the wheel bc their being wealthy 'proves' their superiority

chaosbuddy.bsky.social•19 days ago

The best salesman believe their own pitch.

You’re not going to hear the guy with the reasonable expectations of AI at CES or wherever.

metanautics.bsky.social•19 days ago

I like how he says we have the talent, we just need to remove all the protections for workers so that we can abuse said talent.

colinthemusical.bsky.social•19 days ago

Snowcrash was the most boring of the sci fi dystopias, why are they trying to do that one?

doom2.zip•18 days ago

was also literally a joke

colinthemusical.bsky.social•18 days ago

And a bad one 😭 now I’m living in a future where people want company towns and a guy is trying to sell the Metaverse without swords

doom2.zip•18 days ago

when I was a kid the metaverse sounded amazing but no one was cool enough to make something so pointless

waluigiyaoi.bsky.social•19 days ago

They genuinely believe it both because of main character syndrome and because they’re the exact level of stupid to know a lot of insider info on ai but also think it’s literally god in the machine

largefailson.bsky.social•19 days ago

Thus far they have been pretty successful in rolling back the regulations for labor and environmental protection and this is a pretty clear statement of their plan for us so we should act accordingly.

therake.bsky.social•19 days ago

Love the plan of "Make my kingdom a military base but *Do Not* give the military any control or jurisdiction"

ringout.bsky.social•19 days ago

It's the second one. Anything as long as they get to put the boot to all of our faces.

beamposter.bsky.social•19 days ago

I think it's the secret third thing where they are drunk with power on how easy it has been to get away with all the stuff they have already done and just want to keep pushing dumb crap cause they've realized no one will actually lift a finger to stop them and they can just experiment

garius.bsky.social•19 days ago

I feel like before we give them Texas, they should have to make one of their libertarian cruise ship projects work first.

plantsbutevil.bsky.social•18 days ago

we are so fucking back I was born to be a landsknecht

brokofiev.bsky.social•19 days ago

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