Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires.

tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Any good thing will inevitably be corrupted by capitalism, because that is what capitalism does. It is a cancer, and it will consume everything and us all in the process.

I don’t know if it was in Strauss’ “Accelerando” that humanity told an AI to solve some complex problem at any cost, and the AI promptly turned all the matter in the solar system into a supercomputer capable of solving it.

That’s capitalism in a nutshell: “do profit” is the only imperative, and it will destroy everything, just like a cancer is predicated upon “do growth”, forever, at any cost, regardless of whether the host organism dies.

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