Agreed 100%. Be thankful you didn’t read the 2nd book. So ridiculously silly and predictable. To the point of absurdity.

I love sci-fi. Cool unique ideas, terrible execution. These books are so overrated.

You had me at cutting off the heads of CEOs.

Guillotines go brrrrrrrrr

It seems they’re pushing society in a direction where more and more people will have nothing left to lose. Might be inevitable, how long it takes is the question.

If someone luigi’d musk the US and the entire world would be better off. Somebody else can run his companies, probably do a better job, and not be an asshole while doing it.

Subnautica vibes.

That’s the thing. He’s trying to sell his used truck for more than the cost of a brand new one with the same configuration, if I read it correctly.

The guy fucked up buying this trash at a higher price early on, and now he’s just an asshole trying to rip other people off.

CapITAlisM iS thE BeST sysTEm wE HAve! SOCialIsM doeSNt woRK!

Link to paper:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

Older BBC article about it:

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

Edit: For the record, you sound like a complete twat that nobody wants to be around.

Extremely childish and bullying.

I can guarantee by your edit, that your personality is absolute garbage and more likely than not, people don’t want to be around you. You’re probably not even aware of it because of your own narcissism.

I violently disagree with you.

Gambling and playing lottery is a method to take a risk and get essentially free money by doing nothing, other than taking the risk. Personally I think anything like this gambling related should be taxed up the wazoo. Definitely more than 50%. And that taxed amount should ideally go back to fund things like schools and stuff good for everyone.

Final note, if you ain’t happy with 400M free money, you cray cray.

Anti-AI has become a weird crowd mentality cult.

You’re busy actively being correct. That’s what you’re doing.

The best answer. It really is that simple LOL.

Super talented = extremely desperate foreigners who’ll work 90hr weeks for very low pay.

Just in case anyone needed a translation.

You’re confused, but whatever.

slave whipping machine example blah blah

Ridiculous example not even close to AI or what I was arguing. I made no such argument implying progressives support everything new, so fuck right off with this nonsense. AI can absolutely be positive if used for the benefit of all, you know it or you’re a liar.

You can’t honestly believe that technological advancements, no matter their use, no matter their owners, no matter who they will hurt, and no matter how quickly it’ll destroy the climate

Never said or implied anything close to that. You’re in fucking fantasy land.

IN AN ONGOING CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Arguably the power of AI if used correctly could help with this in many ways. Have it help accelerate battery tech, help with nuclear power plants, more efficient solar panels, etc.

Look at all of the other more recent tech advancements

upped productivity drastically, and thus profits

These benefits should be ours, for everyone not just the elite. This is what I’m arguing.

We are living in a world increasingly dominated by tech and it’s all in the hands of the ruling class—they’ve literally turned us and out data into products. It is not “conservative” to say these things are bad

It is though. What do you want to do? Be a hippy living in the forest eating berries? You seem to just have a hatred for anything tech. I want all the tech for the benefit of everyone, not a billionaire elite. Your solution to “just don’t do it” because we don’t have control is stupid. You are a pussy. We need to take control and use it for the benefit of all.

My original comment was simple and still stands. You are making the regressive argument: its got problems therefore don’t do it. I’m arguing we should absolutely do it because it has many amazing implications and possibilities that can benefit everyone.

Yikes.

And all those incredible leaps in technology you mentioned resulted in even further exploitation of the working class.

So your solution is that we should never have done them? Should’ve stayed in the good ol horse and buggy days? The true leftist would say these could benefit all if we take the power back from the capitalists.

I wrote a wall of text by my argument(s) are simple, and inherently leftist, which I doubt you are or understand.

• Arguing anti-AI for a Luigi meme is dumb and distracts from the important leftist arguments (anti billionaire, wealth inequality, anti capitalism).
• AI is a technology that could be used for good if used for the benefit of all instead of just capitalist elites and/or oligarchy.

on a .world account

Yikes again. I grabbed a popular instance during the whole reddit migration. Don’t know much about the lemmy instance “personalities”. Is the domain I belong to suppose to define me or something LOL. Jfc dude.

It’s people like you who make me lose hope and realize the left is truly lost. You literally just made a regressive conservative argument, and you dont even know it. Not your fault I guess.

Leftists are progressive. Conservatives are regressive and the foundation to conservativism is tradition, i.e., sticking with what works historically because change is scary.

There’s a new thing (tool, advancement in technology, whatever) that has lots of potential “problems” associated with it. The conservative says "there’s problems with this new thing, therefore lets not do the new thing. Ban it.. The progressive says "yes there’s problems, but the benefits are good so lets do the thing and solve the problems.

When the internal combustion engine was invented. Cars would take away jobs from horse and buggy people. Also, I don’t have to change the oil on my horse. Cars are bad. Ban the automobile. That’s the conservative position. They were wrong. You get my point.

AI is very scary because of what you said and more. It is also potentially very fucking awesome. Very. It could usher in a new paradigm where we could all work less and have more. Period.

You literally argued the conservative “I’m scared” position. The problems are gargantuan. We need to take power from the billionaire so that AI and everything else can benefit all, not just an oligarchic elite.

If you actually care, the only thing you should be arguing for is anti-billionaire, anti capitalism (or minimum very progressive regulation on capitalism), wealth inequality, etc. Not this nonsense about AI generated Luigi memes are iRoNiC!

Your comment is ridiculous and a complete waste of time and energy. Oh well.

You anti-AI people are an insufferable cult. It can be used for bad things like health insurance companies, and it can be used for awesome things like this Luigi meme right here.

and/or is very stupid

Yes. We have a rigged system with propaganda and a poor educational system by design. This is very powerful and possibly unstoppable at this point. The main reasons our stupid populous vote against their own interests. They are stupid, but it’s not necessarily their fault. Again, propaganda and education.

This is not an easy problem to solve. Mercing CEOs might be the only option… The whole voting and playing by “the rules” isn’t working. The rich are getting richer, poor poorer, and corruption is becoming even more acceptable and in our faces.

Huh?