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asim ◴[] No.45788244[source]
Tens of billions spent on AI data centers. But people still starve across the planet. Amazing.
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1. ponector ◴[] No.45788889[source]
Gambling market in US has $100bn+ revenue. Tobacco sales in US is $70bn+

People starve and (almost) no one cares.

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2. asim ◴[] No.45788932[source]
Yes also huge problems and many other industries to speak of. Unfortunately as technology dominates and the most valuable company in the world is producing GPUs we know where it's all headed. I think while gambling and narcotics are very addictive and terrible we have overlooked technology and it's crept up on us in a bad way. Screens are horribly addictive. Maybe even worse than those things mentioned because you can be indoctrinated from birth. Because the cost is almost zero and continuous and the advancements are only trying to drive further addiction e.g Meta's heavy investment in AR and VR. AR/VR plus AI is basically the recipe for virtual worlds which people will prefer over real life. So we'll become even more disillusioned to the worlds problems because we'll prefer to escape to some virtual reality where all our desires are serviced.