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Sam Altman: Human Extinction Is Our "Best-Case Scenario"
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A404 lemmy.dbzer0.com A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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A404 lemmy.dbzer0.com A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Imagine being a traitor to your own fucking species

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14th_cylon lemmy.zip 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
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i am sure i can list few humans whose extinction would not be bad thing, so he might be onto something πŸ˜†

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Yliaster lemmy.world Yliaster@lemmy.world
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#4 · Quote Reply

He's not entirely wrong. I can picture a better life without Altman, Bezos, Gates, and all the other billionaires.

Billionaire Extinction would indeed be our best case scenario. How do we make it happen?

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sepiroth154 feddit.nl sepiroth154@feddit.nl
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#5 · Quote Reply

Well, please don't hesitate to lead by example!

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Maultasche lemmy.world Maultasche@lemmy.world
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youcantreadthis quokk.au youcantreadthis@quokk.au
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#7 · (edited) Quote Reply

He's not entirely wrong. I can picture a better life without Altman, Bezos, Gates, and all the other billionaires. Billionaire Extinction would indeed be our best case scenario. How do we make it happen?

Real talk a politically inchoate shitlib or fasch adjacent moron with any time they see systemic power says that doesn't look like anything at all and can't conceive of building a better world gets so upset by the general horrors and oppressive everything that they attack them with like an intensely meme weapon of some sort talk to your lib friends I know they're incoherent and insane but they might just do some shit and the cops won't stop them until they're wearing the bandolier of throwing knives and backpack worn naval gun trying to sneak up on the billionaire

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youcantreadthis quokk.au youcantreadthis@quokk.au
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Imagine being a traitor to your own fucking species

If the whales were offering or could ask I'd sell you out for krill in about five seconds

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Rhaedas fedia.io Rhaedas@fedia.io
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It's the best case scenario because then only the ones who causes this mess get punished. The realistic version is that we're dragging most of the biosphere and millions of other species down with us, completely changing a stable Earth environment to something we're not even sure about.

And we can blame his work in part for that acceleration, but in truth it was already heading that direction for decades, longer than most of us have been alive. It just took a while to see the evidence of damage, and when we did, it was covered up, turned into propaganda for profit, lied about, and mostly just shrugged as someone's future problem. Well, the future is now, and not much has changed, except the environment. Humans are stupid.

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BeMoreCareful lemmy.world BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world
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Cheer up buddy, you're robbing the world already.

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LadyMeow lemmy.blahaj.zone LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Real talk a politically inchoate shitlib or fasch adjacent moron with any time they see systemic power says that doesn't look like anything at all and can't conceive of building a better world gets so upset by the general horrors and oppressive everything that they attack them with like an intensely meme weapon of some sort talk to your lib friends I know they're incoherent and insane but they ...

Here are some tools you might find useful: …,,.,.,?!.’’’’.

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CubitOom infosec.pub CubitOom@infosec.pub
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#12 · (edited) Quote Reply

This is kinda the plot of ghost in the shell.

The question is if we think the singularity is inevitable and if it will be forced in someway.

In any case, LLMs will not bring about the singularity, and we should be taxing this asshole.

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belated_frog_pants beehaw.org belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org
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#13 · Quote Reply

Lets start with him

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itsjustachairmary lemmy.world itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world
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The orcas can have him

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GeeDubHayduke lemmy.dbzer0.com GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Real talk a politically inchoate shitlib or fasch adjacent moron with any time they see systemic power says that doesn't look like anything at all and can't conceive of building a better world gets so upset by the general horrors and oppressive everything that they attack them with like an intensely meme weapon of some sort talk to your lib friends I know they're incoherent and insane but they ...

Aneurysm posting is leaking...

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RememberTheApollo_ lemmy.world RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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Imagine being a traitor to your own fucking species

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youcantreadthis quokk.au youcantreadthis@quokk.au
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Here are some tools you might find useful: …,,.,.,?!.’’’’.

No I'm a literary anprim no tools for me

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LadyMeow lemmy.blahaj.zone LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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#18 · Quote Reply

No I'm a literary anprim no tools for me

Fair enough. You might be happier than the rest of us.

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youcantreadthis quokk.au youcantreadthis@quokk.au
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Aneurysm posting is leaking...

Is only hope sorry

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A404 lemmy.dbzer0.com A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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No I'm a literary anprim no tools for me

Not even a spear or anything?

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RizzRustbolt lemmy.world RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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You first, Sam.

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insufferableninja sh.itjust.works imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works
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Real talk a politically inchoate shitlib or fasch adjacent moron with any time they see systemic power says that doesn't look like anything at all and can't conceive of building a better world gets so upset by the general horrors and oppressive everything that they attack them with like an intensely meme weapon of some sort talk to your lib friends I know they're incoherent and insane but they ...

Your username is apropos. I can't read what you have written.

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youcantreadthis quokk.au youcantreadthis@quokk.au
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Fair enough. You might be happier than the rest of us.

Only for writing tools obviously I still computer

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youcantreadthis quokk.au youcantreadthis@quokk.au
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Not even a spear or anything?

Never typed a spear never will type a spear only said word spear

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RΓΈΓΈk lemmy.world _lilith@lemmy.world
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#25 · Quote Reply

yet another billionaire who is petrified of dying. You can't buy your way out Sam, not with money or blood.

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NoosFraba lemmy.dbzer0.com NoosFraba@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#26 · Quote Reply

He's not entirely wrong. I can picture a better life without Altman, Bezos, Gates, and all the other billionaires. Billionaire Extinction would indeed be our best case scenario. How do we make it happen?

Traditionally only one way has ever worked

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