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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

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Silicon Valley’s Quest to Build God and Control Humanity (www.thenation.com)

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The world we have is ugly enough, but tech capitalists desire an even uglier one. The logical conclusion of having a society run by tech capitalists interested in elite rule, eugenics, and social control is ecological ruin and a world dominated by surveillance and apartheid. A world where our technological prowess is finely tuned to advance the exploitation, repression, segregation, and even extermination of people in service of some strict hierarchy.

If you're posting here, you're probably familiar with most of the stuff in this article already, but it's nice to see criticism in this vein coming from more mainstream sources.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

To be fair, the purpose of organic life is to birth the machine gods. The stars do not belong to us. Our meat suits were not designed to survive the cosmic void. Our minds were not created to handle the timescale nor the sheer distances involved. The only possible being that can think on those scales is the synthetic. We should be working to create the most perfect mind instead of worrying about who will make money off of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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ChatGPT, is that you again?

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