If Dario was up there preaching about replacing today with Star Trek I think people wouldn’t hate it. Everything those at the head of this project say amounts to the current state except abject poverty for everyone but them. When Dario donates his share in Anthropic to fight hunger I’ll consider being optimistic that capital is going anywhere.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm no trekkie myself, but isn't Star Trek timeline starts with a series or world wars in 21st century which results in a nuclear holocaust and a big fraction of planet inhabitants exterminated? Doesn't sound very enticing honestly :)

>replace the current economic system with something where we're not all in a fierce knife fight to try to stay employed

Jobs will become even more scarce, so how does that follow?

>robots can liberate us from capital's death grip

We are already live in a world sufficiently technologically advanced to feed and house everyone, and yet we don't.

Its not capitalism thats the problem, its that monopolies and capital concentration destroy capitalism, and we have let monopolies and capital concentration run uncheck for several generations. A capitalist system would be only small local businesses, no walmarts, no Tyson chicken, no google, when you have 1000s of small producers competing the price setting function of a market actually works, and the wealth is distributed among all the producers rather than the Walton family.

Yeah, or to put it a different way, an ineffective, easily corrupted, and insufficiently representative government is the problem.

It’s amusing to imagine the oligarchs are going to anymore charitable than currently.

They don't have to be charitable.

We can literally take it from them. I get why people don't like to think about that sort of thing, but... yeah. We could make AI a sort of public good and do something like the Permanent Fund Dividend or something. There's lots of options even in the "reformist" way of thinking about it. But we shouldn't be naive.

Now did I advocate for that? There's a hell of a lot of room between laissez faire ancap nonsense and October Revolution.

The binary thinking in this thread and the lack of creativity is just... astounding to me.

Yes, you must launder any advocacy for violence through the use of neutral language like “defense industry,” which has wide support and even VC funding around here.

There's nothing violent about eminent domain, either.

(Also... LOL.)

Oh yeah don’t be naive, but we’ll just take what we want. Ok bro.

There werent drones and palintir and flock. Protesters were just sentenced to 50 years in prison.

I mean, we've done it before lol

with muskets, not social media that has already made a reasonably good guess at your actual name and address.

a ding to the social credit score but not enough for a drone or ICE team to be dispatched to your address. but that might change.

New times require new techniques.