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You lost me at “except billionaires”. I don’t see how Jeff Bezos benefits from this one much more than let’s say Terence Tao.

Can a tech news stay a tech news, without getting bombardes with leftist subtexts all the time?

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Beverse they are benefitting from the financial situation of owning the ai companies that are getting pumped massive amounts of money, not from the debated usefulness of the output of the LLMs.

"leftist subtexts" such as an understanding of capitalist economics in which the people who own everything benefit from the economic activity being done underneath them.

"leftist subtexts" that treat this as a problem, and not as the single largest driver of growth in human history, to which we owe all of the material comfort we now enjoy.

Billionaires are going to benefit from AI at the expense of everyone else. That's not leftist ideology, that's just a fact. That's happened with every technology that's ever been created. It happened with the industrial revolution. Why would it be different this time?

A few years ago i had laser eye surgery and now i can see well. Something that was not possible 50 years ago. Claiming that EVERY new technology comes at the expense of normal people is an absurd statement.

Coming at your expense and benefiting you in some way are not mutually exclusive. For that matter coming at the expense of the average joe and then many years later benefiting the average joe seems to be a common theme.

What do you think of things like the changes to infant mortality or life expectancy between the industrial revolution and present day?

EG, my own oldest child needed a surgery at birth that would have been logistically impossible even 50 years ago. I'd say that she and I have benefited enormously, despite not being billionaires.

edit: I solemnly swear that the sibling comment with the strikingly similar "impossible 50 years ago" claim is a pure coincidence and that I at least am not a bot campaign. Haha.

I mean, i can assure you that I am not a bot either, but wouldn't a bot say that? :p

But yeah, quite a coincidence that we both chose 50 years :)

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