> Plus, it makes natural moat against masses of normal (i.e. poor) people, because requires a spaceship to run. Finally intelligence can also be controlled by capital the way it was meant to, joining information, creativity, means of production, communication and such things

I'd put intelligence in quotes there, but it doesn't detract from the point.

It is astounding to me how willfully ignorant people are being about the massive aggregation of power that's going on here. In retrospect, I don't think they're ignorant, they just haven't had to think about it much in the past. But this is a real problem with very real consequences. Sovereignty must be occasionally be asserted, or someone will infringe upon it.

That's exactly what's happening here.

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fennecbutt 5 hours ago | parent [-]

>massive aggregation of power that's going on here

Which has been happening since what at least the bad old IBM days and nobody's done a thing about it?

I've given up tbh. It's like the apathetic masses want the billionaires to become trillionaires as long as they get their tiktok fix.

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luqtas 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> It's like the apathetic masses want the billionaires to become trillionaires as long as they get their tiktok fix.

it's much worse. a great demographic of hacker news love gen. AI.. these are usually highly educated people showing their true faces on the plethora of problems this technology violates and generates

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zenmac 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>I've given up tbh. It's like the apathetic masses want the billionaires to become trillionaires as long as they get their tiktok fix.

Especially at cost of diverting power and water for farmers and humans who need them. And the benefit of the AI seems quite limited from recent Signal post here on HN.

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pixl97 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Water for farmers is its own pile of bullshit. Beef uses a stupid amount of water. Same with almonds. If you're actually worried about feeding people and not just producing an expensive economic product you're not going to make them.

Same goes for people living in deserts where we have to ship water thousands of miles.

Give me a break.

	▲	datsci_est_2015 38 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And one of my favorites, alfalfa in Arizona for Saudi Arabian horses. Water usage must be taxed according to its use, unfortunately.
	▲	tormeh 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Very important. There is more than just 1 bullshit line of business.