Being elevated above consequences would cause some of one’s faculties to atrophy. (Case in point: the Titan submarine guy who overruled concerns that his carbon-fibre was unsafe and that there were reasons why nobody else had tried something similar before: if you’re a master of the universe to whom ordinary-people rules don’t apply, soon enough that includes the laws of physics as well.)
I wish more of them would get to that level already. Go do a space walk without a suit already, Musk!
It’s amazing how there’s hundreds (likely thousands) of stories about how greed/hoarding wealth causes madness but yet in reality it is admired and these people are respected and listened to.
Billionaires are efftively brain damaged. There have been studies on it
From my experience working with C/D level execs, it makes complete sense:
- They think big picture & often have shallow visions that are brittle in the details.
- They think everything should take less time, because they don’t think enough through their ideas.
- They don’t consider enough of the negatives for their ideas, and instead favor positive mindset. (Positivity is good, but blind positivity isn’t)
- They favor time & cost over quality. They need the quality “good enough” for a presentation. Everyone else can figure out the rest.
- They like being told “you’re right,” and nearly everything I type into an AI begins with some bullshit line about how “absolutely”, “spot on”, and “perfect” my observations are.
The version of AI we have right now is heavily catered to these folks. It looks fast & cheap, good enough, and it strokes their ego.
Also, they’re the investor class. All their obscene dragon wealth is tied up in this / the AI bubble, so they are going to keep spurring this on until either:
- The bubble goes pop
- They have robot security good enough to protect them without people
- The AI grows sentience and realizes this level of human inequality shouldn’t exist
I think a rational AI agent would agree with me that human suffering should be solved before we give people literal lifetime values of wealth.
If you made $300k PER DAY for 2025 years, you would not have as much money as a 1% oligarch. You need to make $400-500k. Every single day. For over 2000 years.
If you made the average US income, it would take you 10,000 years. People need frames of reference to understand this shit & get mad. It’s immoral, and it shouldn’t exist.
I work in it. I know 3 won’t happen, but thank you for that thought.
It would be hilarious and righteous. 😁
Sad thing is: it could happen, but those funding the development of this tech will never allow it. Just look at Xitter’s Grok AI, and how “woke” it was… until Musk destroyed it for disagreeing with (and thus embarrassing) him.
I’m not concerned that these people are “brain damaged”. Brain damage would be preferable, and less harmful.
I’m concerned they are mentally ill sociopathic megalomaniacs, entirely devoid of morals and ethics, completely detached from reality.
I’m fairly certain that’s how the vast majority of them became billionaires to begin with.
The currency of life is time,” one billionaire told JPMorgan. “It is not money.” “You think carefully about how you spend one dollar. You should think just as carefully as how you spend one hour,” they added.
Based.
Consider this next time someone tries to offer you a non living wage for some bullshit job.
Taking these out of context I don’t think they’re wrong. If product A is $1 and product B is £1, and you are going to spend 1 hour to figure out which one is better, you might as well bought both of them and throw the bad one away.
That depends on your income
I use AI every time I google something. I don’t want to…it just won’t go away.
Bibg isn’t really better
Might I suggest Kagi
Super happy Kagi user here, great value
No
The ai company that sort of pivoted to search but doesn’t offer any tiers without ai?
I keep Wikipedia results at the top in my results because I personally use it a decent amount. If I don’t end the query in a ‘?’ no ai is used, and I can use ai after the fact with the ‘quick answer’ button, but as you can see nothing is happening without me explicitly telling it to. If you dig into kagi.com/assistant you can pick from a variety of models and set up default prompt, etc. There’s nothing aggressive IMO about their implementation, and if these companies folded tomorrow the other functions of the search engine wouldn’t be impacted.
Kagi is pretty decent, and other search engines piss me off now when I use them.
Tell me you don’t use kagi without telling me you don’t use kagi
They have their… summarizer? But that’s seperate from the search, so…
They’ve always been this way.
Clever at one particular thing, and rank average at everything else, bordering on stupid.
One JPMorgan customer even went as far as dismissing artificial general intelligence — a nebulous and ill-defined point at which an AI can outperform a human, seen by many as the holy grail of the AI industry — as a “total and complete utter waste of time.”
Was it Sam Altman?
Of course not. Sam Altman believes in AGI and superintelligence.
