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0 pointsAncalagon3h ago0 comments

What's the endgame here? Like the group of psychopath capitalists own everything, automate everything, and devise ways to separate themselves from or un-alives the remainder of the population and live, trade, and war amongst themselves with their armies of robots?

Edit: Also this article has so many AI-generated images. I hate that I can't tell if the words themselves are AI-generated or not as well.

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BlarfMcFlarf3h ago

Endgame assumes intentionality. Maybe the economy is just people responding to much shorter term incentives and the whole thing is a misaligned runaway process.

AncalagonOP3h ago

So dark. I don't understand why it seems like civilization now seemingly follows short-term incentives so much more than it did even 20 years ago. Is it just power concentration or lack of education? Like we have lost the ability to long term plan and collaborate it feels like.

krapp3h ago

This isn't tik-tok. You don't have to use terms like "un-alive" here. Comments on HN aren't policed for maximum advertiser appeal.

And yes, that's more or less the endgame.

AncalagonOP3h ago

I was being a little facetious with the "un-alive" term - seemed funnier than "massacre".

krapp3h ago

You can't spell 'slaughter' without 'laughter.'

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BlarfMcFlarf3h ago

Endgame assumes intentionality. Maybe the economy is just people responding to much shorter term incentives and the whole thing is a misaligned runaway process.

AncalagonOP3h ago

krapp3h ago

This isn't tik-tok. You don't have to use terms like "un-alive" here. Comments on HN aren't policed for maximum advertiser appeal.

And yes, that's more or less the endgame.

AncalagonOP3h ago

I was being a little facetious with the "un-alive" term - seemed funnier than "massacre".

krapp3h ago

You can't spell 'slaughter' without 'laughter.'

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse