In a completely alternate dimension, a quarter of the capital being invested in AI literally just goes towards making sure everyone has quality food and water.

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marcellus23 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'd rather live in a universe where that money is taken out of the military budget.

	▲	serf 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		you'll never win that argument, but I absolutely agree. people have no idea about how big the military and defense budgets worldwide are next to any other example of a public budget. throw as many pie charts out as you want; people just can't see the astronomical difference in budgets. I think it's based on how the thing works; a good defense works until it doesn't -- the other systems/budgets in place have a bit more of a graceful failure. This concept produces an irrationality in people that produces windfalls of cash availability.

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GaryBluto 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As we all know, throwing money at a problem solves it completely. Remember how Live Aid saved Ethiopia from starvation and it never had any problems again?

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dmitrygr 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Without capital invested in the past we wouldn’t have almost anything of modern technology. That has done a lot more for everyone, including food affordability, than actually simply buying food for people to eat once.