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alexashka ◴[] No.45190667[source]
Meh.

The greater scam here is that rugged individualism can lead to positive societal outcomes.

Just more free market capitalism, bro! We just need more freedom for the tech bros, the finance bros, bro!

This AI shit is yet another oh look - increase in rugged individual 'productivity' is going to lead to positive societal outcomes, trust me, bro!

It's all bullshit but what else have the western retarded elite got? Or non-western elites for that matter? USA is USSR 2.0 - falling apart from the retarded short-sighted incompetence and selfishness of its sociopathic 'elites'. China will be USSR 3.0 in a generation or two.

It's all so terribly tedious, boring and cruel - the monumental amounts of wasted opportunity and resources because everyone's too busy being 'productive' to ever spend a decade or two to actually think through anything and come up with potential real solutions to real problems. The average 'elite' doesn't even know what the real problems are or how to begin finding out what they might be - they probably think it's climate change or more likely - how to make sure they retain their billions. Oh well, so it goes.

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1. GuinansEyebrows ◴[] No.45190774[source]
what a roller coaster. i was with you mostly until the end of your rant. climate change is a real problem; one, in fact, that many of the elites you speak of are actively working to exacerbate for short-term gain. that felt kinda out of left field for someone who's essentially espousing leftwing ideology, which more or less entirely embraces climate change as a major concern.
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2. hackable_sand ◴[] No.45191584[source]
I didn't read it like that.

Imagine an LLM service company making contributions to climate science.

It's the scorpion ferrying the frog across the water. No different.