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Listened to an RSA lecture by a DeepMind guy about the problems of AI and the technology industry, but he didn't really have much to add other than bland platitudes and neoliberal garbage about privatizing everything. Companies should be a bit nicer and not discriminate, and other terribly wishy-washy happy-clappy stuff which often comes from corporate PR departments. He had no critique of the centralized nature of a lot of this data mining or of who gets to decide what logic gets baked into the AI. He even mentioned automated prison sentencing at one point.
I would post a link, but I have no intention of platforming aristocrats.
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The triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus (115BC-53BC) is thought to have been the richest man in the world at the time.
He built that wealth not by being nice. Rather, he was exploitative, rapacious and as devious a business and political player as is possible.
I doubt he was the first to be so.
It continues to amaze me that after literally 1000s of years of legitimised greed in the guise of "business" -- resulting the figurative and literal destruction of innocent lives -- there are people who believe the notion that allowing "business" a free reign in all matters would make society better.
Franky, the history makes me doubt the bona fides of anyone who asserts this position.