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.
OK let me be more exact: it will never happen with llm.
Yeah, I know. I thought about clarifying, but figured you’d know that part. LLMs are just pattern matching on an extreme amount of steroids - there’s no intelligence to be found, just faked from amalgamating all the data it’s been fed from actual intelligence (i.e. people).
it’s just sophisticated echolalia
did you include investment gains and inflation in your numbers?
Financial obesity is neurotoxic.
Well put. I think they should all be sent to compulsory rehab facilities for their money/power addiction. And relieved of their surplus resources (anything over $200 million)
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
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!
musk is too much of a coward to die to his own hubris. just a fully repugnant individual.
But he might just take enough ketamine that we never hear him utter another word.
Or at least til he pisses out a kidney
Honestly that’s too good for him, at this point I want him to be murdered by an angry mob on a live stream.
Don’t give me hope, it’s too cruel.
Your certainly an optimist. I envy you
What causes his demise was being an engineer and having some experience, and being too confident in own skills.
Musk, despite having PR misleading people is not an engineer, he just want other people think he is.
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.
Both can be true
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.
Bullshit. That narrative is only spread by the media companies that billionaires own. Turn off the TV.
Most people loathe, not respect, rich people.
It’s everywhere on social media, and presumably those posters are real people. People used to think Musk was fucking Iron Man lol
musk literally built a nazi bot just so it would agree with him.
Yes, because a lot of people also hate him.
Also because these people are hungry ghosts. It’s not enough to be loved by a million cultish followers, they need more. More more more, forever, just like how they need more money and more power and more fame and more more more of everything else.
they need more
you can tell they’ve all burned their bridges with whatever friends they may have once had and their social group is now employees and other jillionaire shitwads.
These things never had friends, they aren’t capable of that kind of human connection.
Everyone is an associate or a rival. “Friendship” is for poors.
you forgot gold diggers, but yeah
Actually on social media those are bots that musk pays for to curate public opinion that he is some kind of genius. Saw those on Facebook and they were turning even worst failure into success, for example hyper loop.
On Reddit I noticed that it works a bit differently, for example teslamotors subreddit looks like is full of fanboys. The way they achieved it is they give permanent shadow ban to anyone who says something negative about him.
Yeah, you just agreed with me.
You’re reading bot content and content that’s boosted by algorithms in the hands of companies run by billionaires
Most real people despise rich people
It was like that on Reddit, where exposure was a function of other people up voting this shit. Sure, there were bot farms, but I argued with real people who thought this nonsense. This was before ChatGPT had us app arguing with their magic 8-ball.
More proof: Trump won reelection, didn’t he? Sure, he only got 49.9% of the popular vote, but doesn’t that further demonstrate that there’s a lot of people who think being a billionaire makes you smart?
Trump did not win.
The US is not a democracy. The progressive parties have zero chance of winning.
Put a progressive in the televised debates and give the people rank choice voting, and you’ll see what the people actually want
The US is not a democracy, but 77 million people voted for him. You can’t ignore that.
There are, in fact, millions of people who worship billionaires and I don’t know how you think you can deny this. Just yesterday during Thanksgiving I had to listen to my sister’s mother-in-law defend this man, she isn’t a chatbot and she isn’t being boosted by an algorithm. The US is full of temporarily embarrassed billionaires that want to be just like Musk or Trump.
It’s about 30% of people. That’s too high, but not high enough to win an election in a democracy
Not true. Most people believe if they play along, they’re next up. Radio > TV > Internet is bread and circus 1.0 > 2.0 > 3.0
Your take that most loathe instead of envy is surface-level. I think you’d be quite saddened to learn how many of those loathers would take the pay and turn their backs… Unfortunately murica LLC is about to show the world that “following orders for money” isn’t unique to 1930s/40s Germany.
You’re out of touch with reality. Go talk to people on the street. Touch grass.
Ahh… the played out “touch grass” white flag. You’re not used to having to endure others’ viewpoints, are you? You poor thing, you.
Billionaires are efftively brain damaged. There have been studies on it
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
The way that title reads made me concerned that I might have brain damage
It’s single digit billionaires and the study barely touches AI.
56% see geopolitical tensions as highest risk and only 7% fear AI the most.
Does this mean that they misjudge AI or are we that close to WW3?
two things can be true
I use AI every time I google something. I don’t want to…it just won’t go away.
Bing 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…
I mean, the good news is that the ones that are using AI for everything are probably heavily invested in it.
And so they won’t be billionaires for much longer…
Sure they will. Cause they’ll get bailed out with our money.
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.
That’s what he tells his investors. He probably knows better than most that it’s not possible
Oh.
Goody.
Wonderful.
Just what we needed - a societal upper echelon spearheaded by the clinically insane, and powered by virtual dipshit machines.
Excellent.
They’ve always been this way.
Clever at one particular thing, and rank average at everything else, bordering on stupid.
Average is very far from stupid
