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You said they were "abnormal" and "trolls" but you dressed it up in the sort of snooty language that HN expects you to dress it up in. Civil violence is the backstop of literally every societal system. While it would be better if the systems work, civil violence is what happens if they don't and tends to increase until they do.
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That's a cute theory that it's just a conversation starter. Truth is, he knows he will need that bunker when the shit hits the fan. And it's already starting to.
I don't see the bunkers as being as useful as some might imagine them to be. In the kind of apocalyptic scenario which would actually make him want to move to the bunker in New Zealand, why would his security people bother to keep taking orders from him instead of just taking his stuff and demoting him to an advisor or maybe even killing him? I guess it's better than dying outside the bunkers, but there's a good chan…
Shock collars / implanted brain bombs would be my evil plan, but he's got smarter people than me on this so who knows?
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What do you say to the people in Minneapolis demanding justice for the murder of Alex Pretti?
> What do you say to the people in Minneapolis demanding justice for the murder of Alex Pretti? Keep pushing your state investigators. Work to flip the House. And keep protesting and disrupting the browncoats. Alex Pretti did more to stop ICE than anyone e.g. killing an individual ICE agent would do.
I feel like Altman's PR team is dropping the ball. We somehow need to get the word out that AI tools will benefit all of humanity, not detract from it.
If 95% of jobs go away, the destabilization leads to violent conflicts, and power and wealth become more centralized does it really matter if we have better healthcare or automated cars? Will people have purpose in their lives? Will this be a better world for most?
In case someone reading this is thinking similar thoughts: there's no version of reality where doing this will solve any problem. Don't.
There is growing anger and discontentment in a large part of the population, driven by inequality of wealth and power. Hopelessness and a lack of control over the future.
Are the nodes of power willing to spread wealth and control more widely to stabilize the country? What are they willing to do to consolidate their power? The vast majority of violence is perpetrated by those nodes, to either consolidate power, or gain more of it.
Other people in this thread have already suggested more actionable responses: organize, unionize, understand class dynamics, and vote accordingly.
In case someone reading this is thinking similar thoughts: there's no version of reality where doing this will solve any problem. Don't.
In case someone reading this is thinking similar thoughts: there's no version of reality where doing this will solve any problem. Don't.
In general, violence can certainly solve problems, especially when the problems are not being caused by almost-inevitable technological revolutions. One of the issues to keep in mind, though, is that it often also creates new ones, often surprising ones. For example, the assassination that led to World War One. For another example, if Trump had been assassinated last year, that would have solved many problems for people who dislike Trump. However, that doesn't necessarily mean it would have made the world overall a better place - that is almost impossible to predict. Hence the sci-fi sort of scenario of "you go back in time and kill Hitler, but when you return to your own time it turns out that Hitler dying just let mega-Hitler take power".
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I don't see the bunkers as being as useful as some might imagine them to be. In the kind of apocalyptic scenario which would actually make him want to move to the bunker in New Zealand, why would his security people bother to keep taking orders from him instead of just taking his stuff and demoting him to an advisor or maybe even killing him? I guess it's better than dying outside the bunkers, but there's a good chan…
> why would his security people bother to keep taking orders from him Shock collars / implanted brain bombs would be my evil plan, but he's got smarter people than me on this so who knows?
In case someone reading this is thinking similar thoughts: there's no version of reality where doing this will solve any problem. Don't.
I'm just waiting for dang, et. al to fix our thread voting system as it's a little too Reddity around here these last days.