• MentalEdge
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          5 months ago

          It’s legit scary to see tech approach the point where private companies might develop systems that could and in some way are endangering humanity as a species, and all their decision-makers are concerned with is corporate success.

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            5 months ago

            … to see tech approach the point…

            Big oil would like a word, alstarting in 1950 at least.

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              5 months ago

              Not to mention literally researching global warming before anyone else bothered, verifying it is happening and that humanity is causing it, then spending decades gaslighting our entire species into widely believing it isn’t.

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            Give it a few years and they will get a military contract to endanger humanity more efficiently.

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      Well they are still missing the self replicating part… But you know, give it some time.