Technology

It's probably cocaine

We already have that abundance. It's just waiting to be liberated.

It’s grifting, pure and simple. All those things may be possible but Sam Altman is spewing this line of bullshit to keep the venture capital flowing into his company.

The current state of capitalism will ensure the second line never sees the light of day

Abundance is already here, tons of food are destroyed and thrown out when they accidentally make too much while people are starving, there's no money in abundance, it's the artificial lack of supply that keeps prices high and profits soaring.

The first paragraph? Can't say I disagree.

Second paragraph? Delusional. Or actively deceitful. Given Altman's background, I'm leaning toward the second.

It's just bait for investors. This is the kind of crap that gets people with money and zero understanding of computers to buy stocks.

It’s true—for a very exclusive interpretation of “we”.

The thing that keeps us from living lives of abundance is not a lack of technology.

An issue with this tweet is that we already have the capacity to do a lot. We have the technology to provide healthy and diverse diets for the entire planet and fit a cities worth of farming inside a few city blocks (vertical hydroponics/aeroponics). We have the ability to create electricity in a dozen different renewable ways. We have the ability to desalinate water creating nearly infinite fresh water, we have enough square footage in the world to easily house everyone. We have stellar education systems that we could hand out to the entire world.

Why don't we do it? Well, all these things cost money. But the issue is, there also exists staggering amounts of money across the world. The panama papers revealed just a fraction of the wealth being hoarded by just a fraction of the wealthiest people in the world (and most implicated in the panema papers weren't even too crazy, like soccer stars and business owners). There's exists tens to hundreds of trillions of dollars of wealth created by the world just floating around in billionaires bank accounts and in the coffers of world powers.

So it's not an issue of abundance coming in the near future, we have it here on earth right now.

I feel like AGI might be the furthest away of all those things.

If we means the human race, it's absolutely true. There's just no mention of a timeline.

These people are frauds.

Marketing...

Every rich tech bro has convince themselves they are the savior of the world.

Great... And and will this abundance be shared or hoarded for profit like everything else that is abundant already is?

Just put it in chatgpt I'm sure it will figure it all out

Sure. Just need to get a bunch of trillions hoarded away by billionaires and throw it at R&D to solve these problems and I bet it would happen.

These rich fuckers making proclamations like that yet somehow still expecting someone else to pay for the solutions.

It's delusional. The problems we have are not caused by lack of technology and cannot be solved by new technology.

He's not wrong. He's probably not going to be the guy leading the charge on any of that but he's not wrong.

It's a cult. Altman is one of the TESCREAL devotees. He truly believes that he can build the electronic messiah.

I think he believes what he's saying. From his perspective AGI will be great, and a lot of people think that AI and quantum computing will have a feedback loop where AI will help us create a better quantum computer which will make a better AI and so on...

Down here in the filth though, we're going to go through mass unemployment, rapid shifts in markets, loss of privacy due to increasingly sophisticated AI powered surveillance, and complete loss of our freedom of speech.

So, all that stuff probably will happen to people like him. Just not us.

Opium.

We don't even have NGI.

I gotta find a way to filter out techbros from my feed.

He isn't wrong, but the pathways is by taxing the absolute fuck out of billionaires

Healthy optimism

And who do you think will be in charge of all of these things? Lol

Cocaine is a helluva drug.

Aah, the innocence of 2022.. 🫠

I don't think most of these people realize that Earth has finite resources, and we're already running short on some of them

they’re absolutely correct we will make all of these breakthroughs, but you dear reader? will benefit from none of them