• BillyClark@piefed.social
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    5 days ago

    “If you have vast numbers of robots with vast amounts of digital intelligence, you have a sort of a quasi-infinite economy,” said Musk. “The future is going to be very, very different from the past. There’s no analogy or metaphor that I think illustrates the magnitude of change that we’re going to experience here.”

    This is a classic argument from ignorance. “If I don’t know about something, then it doesn’t exist.”

    But one very stupid thing about his statement is that there is obviously an analogy. It’s just like when people openly owned slaves. Slaves do all the work, and the master profits. Or, you could say it’s just like the life Musk is living right now.

    Fuck me, the word “robot” is even derived from an Old Slavic word meaning “slave.” It’s right there in the fucking name. But Elon doesn’t know about it, so I guess it doesn’t exist…

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      4 days ago

      Musk is like a slightly smarter version of Trump discovering the word ‘dumb’ has a ‘d’ in it. He delights in using words like ‘quasi’, because he thinks it makes him sound like some sort of ahem uber-intelligent god-man who he thinks everyone should worship.

      Basically, he’s a needy little bitch.

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      There’s also all the backend that he doesn’t care about. The power and the materials required for those robots and digital intelligences comes from a place, it doesn’t just materialize as parts for your stupid Optimus.