What's really messed up about this is that as designers of what AGI even means, these mostly self-taught or otherwise non-scientific clowns who think that being rich makes them smart will create the post-human life forms they think will outlive humanity. The problem is it will be inadequate like most of their products and we'll all die for nothing.

I've been thinking that industrialization at the end of the enlightenment was not the conclusion of the enlightenment but a stifling that led back into a new dark age where we replaced God and the church with money and business. I only hope we can recognize the system has supplanted the people again.

It's funny that these null nodes get so obsessed with declining birth rates whilst doing everything in their power to make people not afford to or not want to bring a child into the hellish world they're creating. But of course they're not worried about the birth rates in Africa or Asia... just that their employees and customers aren't reproducing fast enough to maintain that growth curve for their investments.

It'd be funny if it wasn't so horrible, how obvious all of this is. "Effective altruism" my ass. I can only hope I convey a fraction of the contempt for these people that they display for everyone else.

> The founder, Yudkowsky, posted an article ... in which he asked readers to choose between two options. One is that a single individual is tortured mercilessly for fifty years. The other is that some unfathomable number of people suffer the almost imperceptible discomfort of having a speck of dust briefly in their eye. So which of these is worse? His argument was that the second, the dust speck scenario, is much worse because if you do the math. . .

Does shitposting on Twitter count as eye irritation?

Newsflash: Powerful people never have (cared about humans).

I don't know if "tech capitalists" care about humans or not but I am certain that we should behave as if they do not.

I include myself in that.

I hope people find value in the things I have built and I assume that my literal skin in the game, in the form of my children and eventual grandchildren, will allow others to identify aligned interests ...

... but don't let your guard down just because that one guy did some nice things.

> Right now, with their billions and trillions of dollars, they are trying to create a new world run by post-humans without ever having inquired about the opinions and preferences of the rest of humanity. They’re doing this without our consent, and they don’t really care one bit about what the rest of us have to say.

Man this shit makes me so sad for our future. The money train has left the station and I don’t know if enough good people have the will or ability to shut this destructive speed run down.

Musk, who the article feature has been one of the most outspoken in favour of humans, re we need to do more about declining populations, funding OpenAI with the idea that it wouldn't be monopolised by a profit maxing corporation and so on.

Elon Musk gleefully presided over the destruction of USAID which is estimated to kill 14,051,750 including 4,537,157 children by 2030. (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...)

No matter what his companies builds or accomplishes, those numbers are his legacy.

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