The Rage of the Billionaires Is Coming • Hacker News Board

Re: The Rage of the Billionaires Is Coming

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Post by bigbadfeline » Mon, May 18, 2026, 7:25 PM UTC

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #12

ryandrake wrote: post #2

> Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei routinely says that half of white collar jobs are going to disappear because of his technology. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, noted that “AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies.” And Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, said during an earnings call that “This is a revolution. Some people can get their heads cut off.” This is the sou…

I figure it's just part of their marketing, bragging about how powerful their products are. I fully expect the balloon to pop, but if it doesn't, and people start building guillotines, won't they all have the surprised pikachu face.

> but if it doesn't, and people start building guillotines,

AI can build guillotines better, faster, cheaper - did you miss Karp's quote?

While people waste their time in pleasant hallucinations about what people would do, they'd find themselves in the Soylent Green factory with no way out.

Re: The Rage of the Billionaires Is Coming

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Post by solumunus » Mon, May 18, 2026, 9:30 PM UTC

dragontamer wrote: post #16

kjkjadksj wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can’t even express this anger. You say something alluding to this you are censored online on most major platforms.

No one is censoring anybody in the ways that matter here. When people were angry about gun violence a decade ago, we got "This is America", and other songs representing our disgust at the gun situation. Maybe the laws haven't changed but at a minimum I expect consolidation and comradery. Where is the graffiti? Where are the songs? Like we got a few books from a crowd but we haven't even seen a cohesive counter-moveme…

AI is just too mundane to inspire this stuff. When we’re anywhere near AGI people might be scared to this degree. Not many people are scared and I think that’s appropriate.

Re: The Rage of the Billionaires Is Coming

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Post by whynotmaybe » Mon, May 18, 2026, 10:33 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #2

> Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei routinely says that half of white collar jobs are going to disappear because of his technology. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, noted that “AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies.” And Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, said during an earnings call that “This is a revolution. Some people can get their heads cut off.” This is the sou…

Louis XVI was at the top, the public made him understand nobody's safe.

Re: The Rage of the Billionaires Is Coming

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Post by m463 » Tue, May 19, 2026, 1:04 AM UTC

dragontamer wrote: post #3

Is the public extremely angry? It sounds like the public is only booing. Barely anything of note yet. I think right now the public is slightly annoyed, but not quite annoyed enough to make real changes to our society. The question to me is when do people actually get angry and start changing the world in a way that improves the situation they are in?

I don't know - I've seen "kings" and "billionaires" on protest signs lining the streets in santa cruz

Re: The Rage of the Billionaires Is Coming

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Post by robtherobber » Tue, May 19, 2026, 2:47 PM UTC

dragontamer wrote: post #3

Is the public extremely angry? It sounds like the public is only booing. Barely anything of note yet. I think right now the public is slightly annoyed, but not quite annoyed enough to make real changes to our society. The question to me is when do people actually get angry and start changing the world in a way that improves the situation they are in?

I'm not suggesting that this is the only reason why more anger is not visible, but surely it must account for a degree of it: https://novaramedia.com/2020/06/20/why-does-the-police-exist...

> Wherever one looks at the origins of the police (and prisons), one finds they “develop hand in hand with social inequality and hierarchy”, as Robert Reiner, the UK’s leading scholar of police, explains. The police is, he writes, a “means for the emergence and protection of more centralised and dominant class and state systems”.