Cory Doctorow: tech billionaires want to live in a world without people.
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I think these guys envision remaking Earth into something like Solaria, from Asimov's novels, a planet where something like 20,000 people live on vast estates tended to by their robotic armies. Since this means they will have to somehow conveniently get rid of 8 billion people, it's safe to say that they have less than zero concern for whether any of their current policies have any human cost.
Their vision is really stupid because it assumes that AGI (or more appropriately, ASI) will value them as much as they value themselves and HAHAHAHAHAHA wipes tears - I have no idea what ASI would do, but it sure as fuck wouldn't be that.
Man, I disagree. It is within their power to become recluses right now. They can choose to interact with humans as much or as little as they want.
I think it's more that they want adulation, they believe themselves worthy of it and deserving it. And they want the power of life and death over the masses to gain that adulation.
They want atlas shrugged. Fine then, go live on mars with 20 billionaires with 0 skills and see how that works without your slave labor force. Please try it. Please.
I'd put all my money on a bet that says any billionaire with their record wiped and reset to $0 wouldnt be able to hold down a minimum wage job for a year.
I hated that book, I decided to read it because I heard so much about ot and it's fucking stupid. It creates a society that doesn't functionally work because the government requires businesses to share their intellectual properties, I think i read 2/3 of it and just couldnt. Who is John Galt? He's just some man who decided that the rich business leaders needed to live away from society. It feels like the book idolized these people while the people in question heat had the money to buy the ideas they needed to succeed. Ayn Rand has decent ability to articulate her ideas, Atlus Shrugged is just not it.
I read it, thought it was a good idea when I was a dumbass kid, then realized no, that doesn't work at all. Plus rand died on welfare so.
To be fair, patents were originally supposed to document your invention publicly in exchange for giving you seven years of exclusivity.
Now it’s a patent on a button on a website and you can beat people with licensing for decades.
Oh, some of them would be heading to Mars with a legion of grunts to do all their work. Tons of idolizing morons who'd gleefully sign up to basically be slaves for their Dear Leader. Especially Musk. His cult of fanatics are just absurd.
You're spot on. My sister loves elon. I'm like "Why do you love a nazi?" And she's like "he's not a nazi!!! blahblahblah"
Two weeks later he does the nazi salute twice on camera.
Again I say, please do
It'd be a lot better and easier to just live in a world without them 🤷
Let’s remind these pieces of shit that they’re sheltered little nerds
They're just not comfortable with people so, rather than adjust themselves, their behaviors and their expectations, they just want everyone else to go away.
We should give them their wish of not wanting to be around people by delivering a permanent solution to each one of them so they’ll never have to be around people again
So do I but my plan is to fuck off to the mountains and not bother others.
The type of person that does anything to extract so much wealth from people that they're now worth billions are not right...
What does it take to make them want to live in a world with people? What if all it takes to make the world a better place is some nice people who say hello to the billionaires?