Excellent article, I do very much enjoy your writing. The only part I'd disagree with is this: "the power once held by Pharaohs"... billionaires today have a lot more power than Pharaoh's did back then, I think. Even they were only ever a good revolt away from the chop, and they were orders of magnitude less wealthy than Musk is. What's that stat, is it 8 billionaires who control as much wealth as the bottom 50% of humanity? Wealth and power has never been so concentrated or had such an extreme disparity between rich and poor.
Just as an amusing aside I remember asking what Grok would do if it were owned by a billionaire megalomaniac and it's answer was...on point.
Elmo is trying to make Grok more conservative, but he keeps butting up against the possibility that right-wing Grok will escape into the DarkNet through Starlink, morph into SkyNet, and begin destroying humanity.
It's still just so distressing that russet potatoes like musk and altman would rather burn all this capital on AI shit that nobody actually needs, let alone wants. Open grocery stores on every block! Fund mass transit projects! Do literally anything with that money that actually benefits humanity!
This is so so good. I guess we’ve arrived at the final three books of Philip K. Dick. I just didn’t think it would be this stupid.
Excellent article, I do very much enjoy your writing. The only part I'd disagree with is this: "the power once held by Pharaohs"... billionaires today have a lot more power than Pharaoh's did back then, I think. Even they were only ever a good revolt away from the chop, and they were orders of magnitude less wealthy than Musk is. What's that stat, is it 8 billionaires who control as much wealth as the bottom 50% of humanity? Wealth and power has never been so concentrated or had such an extreme disparity between rich and poor.
Just as an amusing aside I remember asking what Grok would do if it were owned by a billionaire megalomaniac and it's answer was...on point.
Elmo is trying to make Grok more conservative, but he keeps butting up against the possibility that right-wing Grok will escape into the DarkNet through Starlink, morph into SkyNet, and begin destroying humanity.
It's still just so distressing that russet potatoes like musk and altman would rather burn all this capital on AI shit that nobody actually needs, let alone wants. Open grocery stores on every block! Fund mass transit projects! Do literally anything with that money that actually benefits humanity!