Meet the Silicon Valley CEOs who say greed is good—even if it kills us all
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Meet the Silicon Valley CEOs who say greed is good—even if it kills us all
When the tech fetishist’s childlike hope for a digital womb combines with the billionaire’s faith in a winner-takes-all competitive marketplace, look out. It results in a brand of activist futurism that sees the present—our reality, including us—as an impediment to their vision of what could and what should be.
Douglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
What I learned from reading “Situational Awareness” is that the next generation of privilege-blind Silicon Valley investors are even more out of touch than expected. It’s really sad and feels like a cosmic joke that the world’s most affluent class of people who legitimately have the resources to change the world for the better are living and thinki... See more
The Rise of the AGI Profiteers
This is the fly in the ointment of free-market capitalism. It cannot ensure that profits are gained in a fair way, or distributed in a fair manner. On the contrary, the craving to increase profits and production blinds people to anything that might stand in the way. When growth becomes a supreme good, unrestricted by any other ethical consideration
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If medieval moralists did not raise such objections, it was not just because they were comfortable with metaphysical entities. They had a much more fundamental problem with the market: greed. Market motives were held to be inherently corrupt. The moment that greed was validated and unlimited profit was considered a perfectly viable end in itself, t
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