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[–] markz@suppo.fi 161 points 1 month ago

I'm sure he's suffering through it.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 146 points 1 month ago (3 children)

And just how are you suffering, Mr. Billionaire?

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 38 points 1 month ago

“I was only able to buy 2 yachts and one jet. Last year I got 4 yachts and 3 jets.”

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

Well, can you imagine being given a million dollars and someone coming along and saying 'oh, sorry, you didn't withdraw that in time and now it's no longer there, and you owe use a $100 transaction fee'. That would really suck, wouldn't it?

Now imagine that happening 10 times a day, and you can start to imagine how horrible some of these billionaires feel every day!

Of course to make it more realistic, your job wouldn't require you to actually ever come into the office or do anything, they would occasionally double or triple your salary based on the stock market, and instead of it being a million dollars, it would be a dollar or so every once in awhile and you wouldn't know what the transaction fee was because it is effectively less than a rounding error on your current balance. Also banks will loan you money and just write it off if you don't pay it back with no impact to your credit score.

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[–] JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 121 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

I think we can all agree, we should put people like this in the wood chipper and unboubtedly the world would be a better place.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 46 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The billionaires want to build industrial wood-chippers to get rid of us en masse, meanwhile individual sized wood-chippers already exist.

[–] JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago
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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 80 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What do you call a private jet full of billionaires crashing into a mountain?

A good start.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They’d never agree to share the jet.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We'll just tell them they're reopening Epstein Island and this is the first flight.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago (6 children)

That’s actually a pretty good idea. What if we started putting tech billionaires through the wood chipper? It could be like the American guillotine

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago

I’m imagining the next viral video trend on the order of “will it blend”.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's is nothing too awful to happen to sundar Prichai.

No horrible fate could befall that man that would not cause me delight.

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[–] The_Blinding_Eyes@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This type of stuff is exactly why I am moving all of my accounts away from Google. Google is now as bad or evenworse than Microsoft.

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

The things to remember is that these CEOs have made a whole living out of not knowing what they are doing, but being insufferably confident in whatever vomit of words they spew, whether they know anything or not, while ultimately just saying the most milquetoast blatantly obvious stuff and pretending it's very insightful. All this while they believe and the money proves that are the most important people in the world.

So naturally it's easy for them to believe LLM can take all the jobs, because it can easily take theirs.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where is Alphabet at on creating robot infantry? Not sure if ads are going to save them from societal woodchipering:

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 month ago

Google sold Boston Dynamics to Hyundai a few years ago. I wonder if they regret it...

[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That ascribes far too much agency to AI. It's people like him who are putting society through the woodchipper.

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[–] xxam925@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hope he keeps that same energy when the mob walks him up the scaffold.

[–] DNS@discuss.online 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'd love to see it, but let's all be realistic. Americans didn't band together to make cost of living affordable nor took it to the streets to demand universal healthcare. You REALLY think Americans will suddenly band together about AI affecting their way of life?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Americans didn’t band together to make cost of living affordable nor took it to the streets to demand universal healthcare.

They literally did and do, though. We have mass marches and protests that fill up city streets on a regular basis in the US. We had Occupy. We had the BLM marches. We had Women's Marches. We've had Palestinian Solidarity Marches. Israeli Solidarity Marches. No Kings Days. Earth Day. National Boycotts. Rallies to Restore Sanity. We had a mob of people ransack the US Capital five years ago, ffs.

The problem with Americans is not that they don't band together and take to the streets. The problem is in the leadership, which has alternately cashed out, been actively corrupted or mysteriously murdered.

Organizations that aren't infiltrated and subverted from within are pincered between malicious DAs and nefarious NGOs - as was the case with Ohio's ACORN in 2009 and the Harvard anti-Genocide activists organized during the tenure of Claudine Gay - and rubbed out of existence.

There's a naive assumption that politics in the US simply isn't happening. The bitter truth is that we're in the middle of a Cold Civil War, the casualties are mounting, and most people simply can't acknowledge it because the reality is too horrifying to accept.

You REALLY think Americans will suddenly band together about AI affecting their way of life?

I think they already are. And I think the Silicon Valley influenced state and national governments, combined with their lobbyists and media allies, are working to identify, subvert, and expunge anyone with meaningful purchase in civil society.

Group leads march in Downtown Memphis to protest Elon Musk's xAI

Organizations like this exist today. Idk if they'll exist tomorrow.

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[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Americans couldn't even band together to stop the re-election of... Coup attempt... Etc etc etc it's kinda too long and exhausting to state even 1/4 of it at this point. But everyone knows about it.

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[–] Sektor@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

Eat dick, robber baron.

[–] bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doesn't this situation call for companies that could decide to block AI and double down on the human workforce? And those companies who do would be rewarded by all of us who hate AI and they would succeed by the supposed rules of the free market. Why isn't any company stepping up to compete against AI run companies? Wouldn't it be an amazing opening to compete and win?

Also, it wasn't talked about in the article, but one of the big arguments for why this AI thing has to be so inevitable is that we have to compete with China. They think we have to start this race with China, to try to win AI.

First of all, I think we might have already lost the race. Second of all, even if you don't agree that we've already lost. What if by embracing AI, China and all the other countries are destroyed by it? What if it just makes so many mistakes and errors that it just destroys their economy and destroys their country?And then the countries who were cautious about AI would be fine.We'd be the winners, not having succumbed to this ridiculous urge to use everything AI.

People always forget that anything and everything hooked up to a network is hackable. I'll say it again. Everything hooked up to a network is hackable.Including this shitty AI stuff. If we put everything into AI, even if we win, another country could just hack us. And screw everything up. The bottom line is.There is a space to say no to AI and succeed.

I know I'm not that super articulate about this, but I would love to see somebody else write about these ideas with more finesse than I have, so that we could all start talking about this more and stop letting this inevitable push to AI just keep going without pushing back.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

Not to mention, we sold China their surveillance tech which has given them the upper hand in this "race" we never agreed to participate in.

The data collecting capabilities of an authoritarian surveillance state (which we created and sold to China) are allegedly what we will have to accept because it's necessary to win this imaginary race with China...

I know not everybody is a "crazy conspiracy theorist," but does that logic not seem the ~~slightest bit~~ obviously fucked? How much of a "conspiracy" is it really to just acknowledge there are wealthy people in positions of power who don't have our best interest in mind when they talk about making America great and beating China?

US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

US government allowed and even helped US firms sell tech used for surveillance in China

Detailed findings from AP investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state

American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, an Associated Press investigation found. They sold billions of dollars of technology to the Chinese police, government and surveillance companies, despite repeated warnings from the U.S. Congress and in the media that such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities.

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 month ago

ah yes, the "don't be evil" corporation

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 19 points 1 month ago

Not if the people trying to force it on us go in to the chipper first.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

For me, this is the most depressing part.

So many of the technically competent individuals I know are just gleefully throwing their competency and credibility into this ‘AI’ grift chipper with utter abandon.

I can’t see a viable path through it, and whenever they’ve articulated what they see on the other side, it is beyond repugnant and I truly don’t see any benefit in existing in that world if it ever manifests.

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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 15 points 1 month ago

2 steps ahead of you, boss. Locked and loaded ready for the Terminators already.

[–] n0respect@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

"No job is safe .... but I'll still be a billionaire"

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

I'll suffer if he goes through the woodchipper

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 13 points 1 month ago

Google is the one who put society through the woodchipper.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

He's a massive piece of shit.

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago

As long as the tech Bros and the CEOs suffer first and the most I'm okay with it.

[–] C1pher@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He is going to suffer, what a bitch, investing all those money into a circle jerk scheme. I hope when that AI crashes, so will the stocks.

[–] shapeofthings@piefed.ca 8 points 1 month ago

By we will.. he means everyone else suffers while he profits.

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