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@LiberalLibrarian Here's the thing about that: he might be right.
But if designed by him, this spells doom.
We don't have the capacity or the will to figure out how to distribute resources within capitalism. I have zero confidence that we'll magically figure that out post-capitalism.
So as a person pulling the strings, given his reckless and disastrously tenuous comprehension of humanity or reality, anything he creates will nearly certainly exacerbate and accelerate unintended consequences.
@LiberalLibrarian Yep, our culture-prophets have given us the tools to "imagineer" our way into either Star Trek or Skynet.
@sumpnlikefaith AI, used wisely, has the capacity, perhaps, to finally deliver that Star Trek future.
Or, it can do the opposite.