Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
coop@denton.social ("Cooperation Denton (TX)") wrote:
What we are up against is nothing less than the deliberate cancellation of any future that could possibly reflect the desires of the masses. The same thing is happening right now, as I type this, under the umbrella term of AI. Scores of money - more than it would cost to do actually good things that we actually need - are being set ablaze to turn sand into math operations so that already rich people can realize "a future where intelligence is a utility...and people buy it from us on a meter."