| ▲ | NordStreamYacht 15 hours ago |
| FTA: "And who will stop this? Sam Altman? How many divisions does he have? The state doesn’t let corporations own nuclear weapons or fighter jets, it won’t let them have access to autonomous AI weapons either." Elon Musk's SpaceX. He could land a large rocket wherever he wants, it's basically a missile. |
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| ▲ | boothby 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Large rockets are one thing; spacex doesn't really have the inventory to do much. It's the ~10M lithium bombs that are one OTA from weaponization that would make Musk especially dangerous if he were so inclined. |
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| ▲ | zetalyrae 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Then the FBI raids his home and arrests him. Thereafter, no more rockets. |
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| ▲ | jimbokun 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | Elon already solved this once. He got a guy elected that was conducive to his world view and very unlikely to sic the FBI on him. Maybe he can do it again. |
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| ▲ | thescriptkiddie 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| really funny to propose that The Guys Who Are Doing This might hypothetically stop it |
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| ▲ | morkalork 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Take the Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin for example, he did in fact have his own mercenary army. Turning on his president did not end well for him. |
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| ▲ | __d 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes. But. I imagine the others did not fail to learn from this. | | |
| ▲ | zetalyrae 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | What evidence would falsify this idea that wealth alone gives you political power? | | |
| ▲ | NoGravitas 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Agree with sibling that this is a straw man. The state exists to protect and serve the capitalist class, not particular capitalists. Actual state policy generally arises out of conflicts between factions within the capitalist class, striving either for direct benefit or for different guesses of what benefits the class as a whole. But the capitalists don't have to provide any benefit to the state to earn its protection, as in your model. It is literally what the state is for. | |
| ▲ | sooheon 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | This straw man doesn't merit falsification. Nobody claims wealth alone gives political power. Wealth applies leverage to all endeavors, but political ends still require strategy and operationalization. It's just a lot easier with a couple trillion dollars, vs. a single individual vote once every couple of years. |
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| ▲ | morkalork 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don't doubt that governments also learned from the same incident. |
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| ▲ | varjag 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | He stopped at the point where Putin had already fled Moscow, and only because of the hostage situation with his family. I'm not sure to which degree that would have deterred Elon. |
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