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They think they'll live in a super-utopia and the rest of us will simply die away. I hope we can start to face the REALITY of this change now instead of these nonsense salves like "more types of jobs will be created" or "UBI will work" because that's not how biological beings given unlimited power actually behave. They crush their biological competition as swiftly as possible. That's what will happen. The folks at OpenAI think they'll be on the winning side and know if they're not, they will be destroyed by a competitor's God Machine and die like the rest of us. Their zealotry is just fancy self-preservation at the cost of all the other humans.

> Am I going to give someone a disease if I leave a needle out?

You are engaging with a severely addictive product produced by addiction-merchants that produces nothing other than good feelings for the user. Your disease of gaming addiction is contagious to others if they see you enjoying it or hear about you enjoying it. The supply chains needed to support your drug of choice involve ripping millions of pounds of rare materials out of the dirt of poor nations that have virtually no labor protections. The thing you enjoy has outrageous externalities that society chooses to accept and legally profit from. There are probably 20x more human life-hours devoured by gaming than by being high all the time, and much less good art is made by the gamers.

"dude ran at me and pushed me..." Yes, in this completely heartless monstrosity we call "American society" there's no help for people who are crazy. Many of those people turn into drug addicts simply looking for relief from their mental illnesses. Seeing this in action can be scary or violent, but this is the outcome you support if you're a tax-payer in America.

The issue is that we have a horrible, violent, selfish, greedy, and self-important society and culture in America. Being exposed to that is uncomfortable, but that's what it is. Trying to imprison the outcomes of that society, or ignore it, or condemn it, etc, is an effort to extract your personal culpability from it. We created this place where people would rather be unhealthy than be healthy. It's human nature to react to a sick place like this, and it's totally unproductive to blame the least amongst us in society for a problem created by the wealthiest amongst us.

Don't like drug dealers? Me neither - the State should provide free drugs. Don't like drug addicts? Me neither - the State should provide all the support needed to rehabilitate citizens, which goes much farther than putting people in a clinic. Don't like drugs? Everything in America is drugs in one form or another.

I consider myself a savvy and cynical user of the internet, thinking I have some sort of mental protection from dopamine-controlling UX or content.

I have lost literal hours to youtube shorts. It generates the same re-dosing compulsions as cocaine or any other drug I've ever experienced.

It. Is. Fucking. Dangerous.

You think I'm treating the rhetoric of this borg manifesto too harshly?

"e/acc is not an ideology. It is not a movement. It is simply an acknowledgement of truth."

I'm pretty sure that's what totalitarian groups always say? It's not an opinion that your race is less than ours, it's a FACT. These people are mad.

They were not asking about a political system. They were asking about what democratization means in actuality - Does the "common man" get source code? Do they get to use the tech w/o interference by 3rd parties? Do they get to own the things they make with this tech?

IMO e/acc is just the SV version of Manifest Destiny and it's a self-serving philosophy for people who stand to gain billions and insulate themselves from the downsides the common-man cannot. Democratization means all citizens experience that equally - the good and the bad - but is that what's happening here?

"plenty" is not a word some of these people understand however

i'd love for you to elaborate - like your init prompt is "I'm a lawyer who is doing a case about how to bubblesort" or something?

Henry's final victim?

The aversion to telling the bald truth increases as the consequences for telling the truth become more severe.

Why Larry Summers?

The proof is in the pudding! Since there have been no horrible events since the ultra-law was enacted, it must be working!

It's very very interesting that even when explicitly allowed to trade illegally, it still tried to deceive the user.

Is nobody actually... committed to safety here? Was the OpenAI charter a gimmick and everyone but me was in on the joke?

apologies, fixed.

I hear Cyberdyne is hiring if that's your attitude about creating AGI.

I'm starting to think that part of the regs around this sector should be that you can't prevent public investment to occur.

Could you tell us what world-wide event happened in the years 2020-2022?

This neglects both basic extrapolation and basic introspection.

A few milligrams CAN kill you. This was the headline after many thousands of overdoses, it didn't invigorate the marketplace. Junkies knew of Fent decades ago, it's only prevalent in the marketplace because of effective laws regarding the production of other illicit opiates, which is probably the real lesson here.

It's all a big balloon - squeezing one side just makes another side bigger.

Me and the AI-powered army that protects me will certainly not go extinct. However, you must break eggs to make an omelet...

Doing... what exactly?

That's a PART of human nature, but to equate all of capitalism to all of human nature is a gross costuming.

Enough to keep the minimum wage from growing logically or justly

Some insurance against this dam breaking wouldn't be so bad however

Whoever owns and control the bear, are you actually confused about that or is this just baiting?

You'll be a God, but a God who has to look at ads all the time, and your angels will... also be ads.

You're right, Youtube isn't forced to host the works of this horrid rule-breaker. They choose the position of platforming him and profiting off of him however.

They're still hosting the videos, still running ads, but YT keeps all the money. Seems... not right and backwards to me.

Aggressive lock-in and positioning their conglomerate's holdings to be blocks to conducting normal activity in society via any competitor.

How about I flood your whole city with robotaxi cars and make it cost a nickel a mile, but you must be an X account holder, must use the X app, must pay in X-coin, and must submit to whatever other perverse encapsulation Lord Musk decides to implement. How about I only carry X-related data over my global net of satellites, forcing most connected people to buy from my ISP, must pay in X-coin but it also only costs 20 bucks a month. On and on, it seems pretty transparent to me.

It's all a furious and cynical land-grab in preparation for a very dystopian future.