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We're spending a trillion dollars to create computers that can act like a human, and so every homeless bum is a billion dollar computer we're wasting.

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@quinn yeah but with the homeless you still need to treat them like human beings.

Somebody made a point that the whole "AGI" thing is about recreating slavery and techbros wanting to have slaves, and that's a pretty good observation IMVHO.

Dark, but on-point.

@rysiek @quinn

The techbroligarchs intent on manifesting #neofeudalism don’t want to go back to 1950 or 1850.

Their objective is rolling back the #Enlightenment and the #Renaissance and going to 850.

@rysiek @quinn
imvho, there is considerable insight to be gained observing the minutiae of performative richfolk robot display plumage - cocktail makers, nespresso machines, self driving cars, voice assistants, delivery drones etc, pool cleaning robots, roombas... and how those shade into the mechanical turked services - delivery again, supermarket picking services "direct to boot" etc - much of the performance is about not having to interact with a human to get the service or goods.

@jaystephens @rysiek @quinn That's the effect, but I suspect the motive is not having to pay the robot.

@anne_twain @rysiek @quinn
I don't think that's the primary motivation.
I think the primary motivation is social signalling.

@anne_twain @rysiek @quinn
Only in emphasis I think.
I 100% agree finance is a secondary motivation.

@rysiek @quinn Meanwhile, humans are becoming more slave-like, serving the interests of big corps who don't give a rat's arse about quality of life.