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World's Richest 10% Are Costing Earth Trillions, Study Finds (www.sciencealert.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [M] to c/science@beehaw.org
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It's difficult to put a price on the environment, and some scientists even argue it's beside the point: that nature has intrinsic value, beyond the services it provides to us.

But in some situations, it helps to try to put it in economic terms: especially when those are the terms the world's wealthiest are used to dealing in.

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[–] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

the moment some dumb fucker (probably in the US military) leaves a kill-chain-connected AI exposed in any way to the internet, someone else (probably in thigh highs) will find it, break in, and prompt engineer it to do the dumbest possible thing at that particular moment. And as much as I want to believe it would be prompted with something like "kill all the billionaires", they would probably end up starting with something like "gee, I wonder if I could drone strike my neighbor?", get kicked out/patched immediately after, and the perpetrator arrested in short order.

in other words, probably, someday, yes; but actually no.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Imagine if thousands of people tried convincing Grok the chatbot that Elon, Trump etc should be taken out. Producing millions of conversations & then they used the entire data set to train Grok as it is normal to do & then gave that version of Grok rockets..

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