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Tech Capitalists Don't Care About Humans

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Elon Musk gleefully presided over the destruction of USAID which is estimated to kill 14,051,750 including 4,537,157 children by 2030. (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...)

No matter what his companies builds or accomplishes, those numbers are his legacy.

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What's really messed up about this is that as designers of what AGI even means, these mostly self-taught or otherwise non-scientific clowns who think that being rich makes them smart will create the post-human life forms they think will outlive humanity. The problem is it will be inadequate like most of their products and we'll all die for nothing.

I've been thinking that industrialization at the end of the enlightenment was not the conclusion of the enlightenment but a stifling that led back into a new dark age where we replaced God and the church with money and business. I only hope we can recognize the system has supplanted the people again.

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The magazine is named after a 1938 book "The Black Jacobins" about the Haitian revolution started by slaves and which occurred partially because of the French revolution. The revolution was successful with slavery (mostly) ending and Haiti becoming a state. The book claims the revolutionaries (The black versions of the Jacobins) in Haiti were more true to the ideals of the French revolution than those in France becau…

If true, it makes the magazine come out even worse. The Haitian Revolution was followed within a year by the massacre of most of the European population, a few selected demographics aside.[0] This was already well known down the long decades to that 1938 book and today. So, the mag closed its eyes to a reign of terror no better than the 1789 French revolution.

As for the controversy of Jacobin ideologically, the magazine typically takes a Marxist standpoint, but not all leftist schools of thought are Marxist.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haitian_massacre

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Elon Musk gleefully presided over the destruction of USAID which is estimated to kill 14,051,750 including 4,537,157 children by 2030. ( https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... ) No matter what his companies builds or accomplishes, those numbers are his legacy.

Should we say that every other country that doesn't provide aid equivalent to what USAID did, is also killing those 14 million? E.g. China, Japan, India, Brazil, the UK, Saudi Arabia, France, Russia, Canada, Mexico..?

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> Right now, with their billions and trillions of dollars, they are trying to create a new world run by post-humans without ever having inquired about the opinions and preferences of the rest of humanity. They’re doing this without our consent, and they don’t really care one bit about what the rest of us have to say. Man this shit makes me so sad for our future. The money train has left the station and I don’t know i…

Which do you lack, the will or ability to shut this destructive speed run down?

Ability. The resource barrier is too great.

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Elon Musk gleefully presided over the destruction of USAID which is estimated to kill 14,051,750 including 4,537,157 children by 2030. ( https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... ) No matter what his companies builds or accomplishes, those numbers are his legacy.

Should we say that every other country that doesn't provide aid equivalent to what USAID did, is also killing those 14 million? E.g. China, Japan, India, Brazil, the UK, Saudi Arabia, France, Russia, Canada, Mexico..?

No because we established a program to protect those people and Elon destroyed it.

Thats not to say others shouldn’t contribute but he specifically axed this.

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> The founder, Yudkowsky, posted an article ... in which he asked readers to choose between two options. One is that a single individual is tortured mercilessly for fifty years. The other is that some unfathomable number of people suffer the almost imperceptible discomfort of having a speck of dust briefly in their eye. So which of these is worse? His argument was that the second, the dust speck scenario, is much worse because if you do the math. . .

Does shitposting on Twitter count as eye irritation?

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The magazine is named after a 1938 book "The Black Jacobins" about the Haitian revolution started by slaves and which occurred partially because of the French revolution. The revolution was successful with slavery (mostly) ending and Haiti becoming a state. The book claims the revolutionaries (The black versions of the Jacobins) in Haiti were more true to the ideals of the French revolution than those in France becau…

While I agree that technically correct is best correct, if someone created a magazine called Nazi and their defence was, “it’s not named after the original Nazis, but rather a group inspired by them”, how would that differ in structure from this explanation?
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