> become the only company in the world

This is not a necessary end state. It is the byproduct of the disease of sociopathic MBAs.

CommieBobDole 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It does seem like a lot of the valuations and infrastructure investments for these companies only make sense if each one assumes they will be the first and only one to invent superintelligence and that it will largely replace all knowledge work.

	▲	hdgvhicv 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In which case the global economy is dead and there’s no one to buy their work?

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lanstin 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Remember: MBAs are sociopathic by training.

(Source, worked for multiple tech companies that were laser focused on delighting customers until money people came in and ruined it, to the point they would prefer devs sit idle than work on things the MBAs didn’t have on a priority list).

	▲	zeristor 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That sounds like my last job.

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andsoitis 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> sociopathic MBAs

For the record, with the exception of Amazon’s Jassy, the CEOs of the top 5 companies are all engineering types with engineering credentials.

The CEO credentials of the top 5 AI companies are all science degrees.