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SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Theil wants a techno libertarian oligarchy with no regulations ala Blade Runner.

Musk wants the rich to escape to Mars while destroying earth and dooming the poor’s.

Bezos wants to send the poor’s into space along with heavy industry and turn earth into a rich person paradise ala Black Mirror “Fifteen Million Merits”.

Altman is just a shitty rich person in tech wasting precious resources to teach a computer to create porn. Becaue we all know that’s what 99% of people do and will use AI for. He’s also a prepper which means he’s a selfish cunt.

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SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I love your descriptions for all of them. If you have some free time would you mind writing it for everyone in the brackets?

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QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m shocked that Sam Altman won out over SBF

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- SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sam Bankman-Fried is definitely bad for what he did and his belief in effective altruism, which is just another smoke screen to not properly tax rich people because they “donate to charities”. You could argue his getting into crypto also makes him bad because crypto mining is bad but he’s not on the same level as Sam Altman. Not even close.
  
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  - QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’d rather pick someone who did something deserving of life in prison than someone who didn’t, but maybe that’s just me.
    
    Also, Sam Altman has no equity in, and was only paid $73k by OpenAI last year. You can dislike him for the rumors surrounding his managerial style and whatnot, but it’s pretty clear he isn’t exploiting people to get shit rich like everyone else on this list.
    
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    SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I don’t.
    
    Altman is just a shitty rich person in tech wasting precious resources to teach a computer to create porn. Becaue we all know that’s what 99% of people do and will use AI for. He’s also a prepper which means he’s a selfish cunt.
    
    If he wasn’t promoting AI and trying to sell it as the next best thing to sliced bread he’d just be a shitty rich prepper. Instead he is wasting time and resources on AI.
    
    And my personal bias against crypto really lowers my “give a fuck” bar so while, again, what he did is bad I don’t care if he defrauded a bunch of crypto cunts. Same as I don’t care about people “loosing” their NFT’s.
    
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- bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  SBF hasn’t been in the headlines as much recently.
  
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