This article is basically an illustration of our TESCSREAL bundle, Eugenics and AGI paper.
"And that’s when the man in the castle with the seven fireplaces said it.
“I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.”
I’m taking the liberty of putting it in quotation marks, though I can’t be sure those were his exact words....Maybe he said “quiescent,” or “docile,” or maybe “powerless.” Something, certainly, along those lines."
https://prospect.org/power/2024-04-24-my-dinner-with-andreessen/
@timnitGebru imagine living inside the logical fallacy of “computers made me unimaginably rich and powerful, therefore computers should and will and must replace everything that existed before them”
@timnitGebru I have some legally actionable thoughts on all that
@timnitGebru The attitude those people somehow ooze… has this nauseating quality.
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I wish I could un-read his thoughts. Horrific.