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Anti-AI propaganda is false-flag. AI is going to happen. The only question is whether it will benefit everyone or just the rich. Best way for the rich to ensure they own it is to convince the poors that AI is a monster, so they don’t demand it for themselves, and instead fight pointless battles they are guaranteed to lose. Folks need to wake up and start talking about a post-scarcity world where machines do all the work. You can have Star Trek or Elysium.

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> Anti-AI propaganda is false-flag.

Why would AI providers benefit from anti-AI propaganda?

There are three options:

1. AI owned by everyone

2. No AI

3. AI owned by billionaires

If you can make the poors fight for 2 instead of 1, then you guarantee that you don't get 1. If instead, the poors fight for 1, they've got a chance of getting it. You present AI as a false dichotomy: no AI or AI for billionaires.

Any of us arguing for (1) get shouted down by the very people who would benefit most from it. The poors do the job of the billionaires.

> The only question is whether it will benefit everyone or just the rich

Are you seriously mulling that as a question?

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