> What I find infuriating is that it feels like the entire financial system has been rigged in countless ways and turned into some kind of race towards 'the singularity' and everything; humans, animals, the planet; are being treated as disposable resources. I think the way that innovation was funded and then centralized feels wrong on many levels.

this is how I feel too

as a species we were starting to make progress on environmental issues, they were getting to the point they were looking solvable

then "AI" appears, the accelerationist/inevitablist religious idea is born, and all the efforts go out the window to rape the planet to produce as many powered-on GPUs as possible

and for what?

to generate millions of shrimp jesus pictures and spongebob squarepants police chase videos

it's really quite upsetting

meanwhile the collaborators are selling out all present and future living beings on earth for a chance to appear on stage in an openai product announcement

whilst gas-lighting themselves into thinking they're doing good