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Origin Reddit Post
r/technology
Tech CEOs don't seem to realise just how anti-human their AI fanaticism is, and I think it's all because of the Enlightenment
Posted by u/lurker_bee•08/01/2025
Top Comments
u/Huwbacca
I love that finally we are seeing that being in STEM is not a marker for overall intelligence.
These AI fanatics have appalling critical thinking skills, their ability to extrapolate and man
u/Ok_Boysenberry5849
I guess they do know to some extent, but I also think we shouldn't underestimate how ignorant those guys are. They are good at management, marketing, economic strategy.
But their grasp of te
u/Prior_Coyote_4376
They’re addicts to power and there’s no one powerful enough to intervene. No *one* that is.
u/rolloutTheTrash
It’s because they want people to consume without them having to pay. I’m not sure what they expect people to do once all jobs are AI and no one is making money, but that’s tomorrow’s problem.
u/BloodyJeff
Yep, classic disconnect. They see the high-level stuff but miss all the edge cases and nuances that actually make things work. AI looks like magic until you try to automate the messy reality
u/Good_Air_7192
Better still, if AI can replace workers, particularly within software companies, that means we can all create our own IT companies on our own that will compete with the big boys....just set u
u/Sprinklypoo
Expecting their base to embrace being cut out of a job for their oligarchs benefit when they've been taught to villainize aliens for the same reason is maybe a stretch...
u/JamesTheBadRager
Would love to witness one of them go ahead and replace everything with ai and watch everything falls apart without human supervision and input.
u/freakdageek
All CEOs are sociopaths. Without exception. Every single one of them. It’s required to do the job. _Everything_ that they do, regardless of the outcome, is for their personal benefit alone. I
u/Nowaczek
They know and they don't care.
u/Formal-Hawk9274
https://youtu.be/8enXRDlWguU?si=nN3cX6RpUIwKnVup
u/Prior_Coyote_4376
They’re addicts to power and there’s no one powerful enough to intervene. No *one* that is.
u/goldrunout
Nothing wrong with that, the problem is: do we advance society towards something better than capitalism, or will super intelligence send us back to what came before?
u/taznado
They were already pushing people around like meat sacks.
u/freakdageek
All CEOs are sociopaths. Without exception. Every single one of them. It’s required to do the job. _Everything_ that they do, regardless of the outcome, is for their personal benefit alone. I
u/micmea1
They can't see past themselves. AI could make life easier for the working class. But they don't get it, nor do they have empathy for it. They don't understand that a few people working from h
u/Nita231
I completely agree. Same thing with corporate farms. The owners should be forced to live on that same farmland.
u/Lazerpop
They need to play SOMA. They'll get immortality, but they won't live long enough to experience it.
u/rolloutTheTrash
It’s because they want people to consume without them having to pay. I’m not sure what they expect people to do once all jobs are AI and no one is making money, but that’s tomorrow’s problem.
u/And-Taxes
Have you ever met a philosophy PhD who didn't want to wax lyrical about it at any given opportunity?
u/gj29
My manager (middle manager) took this past week off and completely disconnected. I’ve been interfacing with my Director all week solving problems. He’s now back and, nice guy and all, but mid
u/Danguard2020
The guy who builds the automation knows how it works. The boss doesn't.
Without a human hand to monitor the automation, it will break down after a few cycles.
If the boss sacks him, his au
u/inappropriatethings
> AI datacenters are just massive radiators. Look into how much power they use and basically all of it gets released into that environment.
Boiling a river so we can have cute AI cat pics
u/JamesTheBadRager
Would love to witness one of them go ahead and replace everything with ai and watch everything falls apart without human supervision and input.
u/niftystopwat
Yeah this speaks to the truth of what advanced capitalism will do to a person’s psyche. Imagine having a substance abuse problem, all of the complexities involved and difficulty in feeling su
u/cleodivina11
Most of them don’t really care about how it affects regular people, they’re just chasing the next big thing.
u/Low_Attention16
There are some, those that are brave enough.
u/SuccotashOther277
Right it is a case by case thing. In my experience most directors are clueless about what goes in and middle managers mitigate the dumb decrees that come from directors or the c suite
u/DistrictNew4368
I have a colleague that keeps automating everything at work on his free time. Boss suggested implementing ai to automate some tasks. This guy does not understand that our boss will get rid of
u/And-Taxes
Have you ever met a philosophy PhD who didn't want to wax lyrical about it at any given opportunity?
u/Kay_tnx_bai
Enlightenment lol, greed and the utter lack of empathy is what that is.
u/Prior_Coyote_4376
Interesting profile pic you got there
u/Disgruntled-Cacti
Not just don’t care, they’re absolutely salivating at the idea of completely crushing the bargaining power of the meat bags they employ.
u/HanzJWermhat
Meanwhile Cramer shilling Tesla at 90 PE…
u/letmeruinthisforyou
I don’t think the author is wrong on the merits! I think it’s a completely terrible article with embarrassing philosophical citations and just poorly written.
u/hmds123
I just recently read Age of Surveillance Capitalism and your comment struck me to tears because of the fact that I believe what you are saying is undoubtedly true. History has shown as much.
u/grabitoe
> it would also be no wonder the humanities are threatened given such rejection of our human reality and attempt to transcend it.
we’re so dystopia and yet these people believe that we ar
u/Mysterious_Spite8264
Greed knows no bounds. They’ve told America for 3 and a half decades that there is a “labor shortage” to justify importing cheap labor from overseas to suppress wages.
Their games are inten
u/modcowboy
This is all ceos - they don’t understand ai or their business at the level of detail required to replace jobs… but they sure do try! lol
u/hmds123
I just recently read Age of Surveillance Capitalism and your comment struck me to tears because of the fact that I believe what you are saying is undoubtedly true. History has shown as much.
u/UnpluggedUnfettered
Lol they are all in on AI like it's the Excel document that still runs core facets of their business.
u/Prior_Coyote_4376
Better idea: replace the shareholders with a worker democracy and elect the CEO
u/taznado
They were already pushing people around like meat sacks.
u/goldrunout
Nothing wrong with that, the problem is: do we advance society towards something better than capitalism, or will super intelligence send us back to what came before?
u/Qorhat
The bunker thing is hilarious like will employee really be loyal to Zuckerberg when money has no value?
u/Technical-Fly-6835
They all are so happy that ai will take away jobs. But nobody says how regular people will survive without jobs. Everyone will be desperate for jobs and these guy can continue to exploit us.
u/Mean_Nectarine_2685
They know. They just don’t care.
u/kadfr
Tech disruption has almost never been a good thing. It is a highly aggressive form of opportunist capitalism with a technological sheen.
Tech 'disrupter' startups look to undercut existing s
u/Chytectonas
TBF, being “pro-human” in the age when humanity proves its depravity 20 different ways every day… is a bitter pill also.
u/Prior_Coyote_4376
Better idea: replace the shareholders with a worker democracy and elect the CEO
u/Kay_tnx_bai
Enlightenment lol, greed and the utter lack of empathy is what that is.
u/draft_final_final
Yarvin is Andrew Tate for tech billionaire chomos who have made extensive use of a blood boy and still look no younger than their actual age.
u/FlavinFlave
It’s the fascists in charge and the billionaires who aren’t far removed from those fascists that scare me. You don’t buy a Hawaiian island to make a bunker because you have positive plans for
u/nogeologyhere
But then what's the point? You're not painting, you're doing something else entirely. That's fine, but you can't call it painting or say it achieves the same thing.
u/niftystopwat
Yeah this speaks to the truth of what advanced capitalism will do to a person’s psyche. Imagine having a substance abuse problem, all of the complexities involved and difficulty in feeling su
u/KarmaFarmaLlama1
Definitely could be, but just like the internet didn't burst after the .com bubble burst in 2002, ai might still progress long term similarly.
u/GreenFBI2EB
I think these AI execs should live in the towns whose water gets poisoned by this stuff.
u/Yutah
... thiefs and plagiators
u/Qorhat
The bunker thing is hilarious like will employee really be loyal to Zuckerberg when money has no value?
u/MysteriousDatabase68
I'll disagree. A bunch of tech money is pimping their 'dark enlightenment' so the author is just throwing it back at them. And the tech bro's 'philosophical' ramblings are fairly selectivel
u/intoxicuss
People should stop believing any of these tech CEOs understand anything other than business. They’re not technically adept. They’re not scientists. They’re not philosophers. They’re the same
u/wintrmt3
There is no arable land in the middle of Australia, it's a desert.
u/letmeruinthisforyou
Tech/gaming writers put out slop about freshman level philosophy. This is what you get. Incomprehensible trash that I’d fail an undergrad for.
u/Qorhat
Yes I'm sure the people trained and equiped with weapons will really comply with that. Those bunkers will either be cracked open and looted like King Tut's tomb or people outside will just fi
u/Disgruntled-Cacti
Not just don’t care, they’re absolutely salivating at the idea of completely crushing the bargaining power of the meat bags they employ.
u/ismelldayhikers
My director is a moron and the middle manager knows more than him
u/The_Whitest_Walker
Your colleague should try automating the boss.
u/KwisatzHaderach94
i think their interest is in developing ai to the point where they can digitize their consciousness so they can have virtual immortality.
u/hmds123
I just recently read Age of Surveillance Capitalism and your comment struck me to tears because of the fact that I believe what you are saying is undoubtedly true. History has shown as much.
u/modcowboy
This is all ceos - they don’t understand ai or their business at the level of detail required to replace jobs… but they sure do try! lol
u/derekfig
None of these CEOs know how to implement or they are basically trying to find ways to do it, especially the ones not in tech, but coming up with no success whatsoever. Investors are pushing A
u/letmeruinthisforyou
Tech/gaming writers put out slop about freshman level philosophy. This is what you get. Incomprehensible trash that I’d fail an undergrad for.
u/Prior_Coyote_4376
Interesting profile pic you got there
u/sweetno
The article's author has some weird ideas about Enlightenment. There was an entire philosophical school preaching that the humanity gave up ideals of Enlightenment for mindless consumerism.
u/Sherry_Cat13
Incorrect. These are all human beings. It doesn't take much to intervene with a human being, but that would mean having to deal with the outcome of that. Mangione is proof of that.
u/lajdbejdk
Nailed it. Replace the CEO’s with AI. That would suck but middle management for sure lol!
u/DontEatCrayonss
Sociopaths do not care
u/shinbreaker
More importantly, no one calls them out on it to their faces. Like when they talk at conferences, whoever is moderating is not going to push them hard unless they're a real journalist. When t
u/fukredditadmin5
They are beyond any care for humans, more money is what they only care about
u/protomenace
They think they are going to be the Methusalahs of the new Altered Carbon style world they will usher in.
u/Selenthys
> This guy does not understand that our boss will get rid of us once things are manageable for him to do it all
He understand it very well. He knows that the one implementing the automati
u/Prior_Coyote_4376
They’re addicts to power and there’s no one powerful enough to intervene. No *one* that is.
u/Squibbles01
Tech CEOs think they're about to be gods in the new world order.
u/Puzzleheaded-Sky2284
The author claims to have a philosophy PhD, but he also wrote this garbage.
u/Prior_Coyote_4376
They’re addicts to power and there’s no one powerful enough to intervene. No *one* that is.
u/gj29
My manager (middle manager) took this past week off and completely disconnected. I’ve been interfacing with my Director all week solving problems. He’s now back and, nice guy and all, but mid
u/Mean_Nectarine_2685
They know. They just don’t care.
u/Perhaps_A_Cat
Biodomes require inputs and no one has successfully maintained a biodome for an appreciable amount of time with an intact closed ecosystem loop.
They are fucked.
u/FlavinFlave
It’s the fascists in charge and the billionaires who aren’t far removed from those fascists that scare me. You don’t buy a Hawaiian island to make a bunker because you have positive plans for
u/WileEPeyote
I just watched Mountainhead and it's basically this. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't that deep.
Four billionaires plot a world takeover. They think they are the smartest humans on the planet bec
u/AldusPrime
They love money and they hate humanity.
u/protomenace
They think they are going to be the Methusalahs of the new Altered Carbon style world they will usher in.
u/Jodid0
I don't really think people are seriously suggesting that AI wasn't here to stay, we've already had it in various forms for decades with machine learning and it has extreme potential. But it'
u/Perhaps_A_Cat
I know someone who's been a star player at all of the big names since before USB was also a power source.
He thinks China and AI is going to solve everything including climate change.
I h
u/shinbreaker
Yeah it's going to come down when one major investor finally gets tired of them burning money and asks them when are they going to make some money.
u/--Claire--
Also part of the point of creative endeavors is enjoying the process itself, not just the end result on its own.
u/JamesTheBadRager
Would love to witness one of them go ahead and replace everything with ai and watch everything falls apart without human supervision and input.
u/sun827
Fire is still our greatest tool.
u/Sherry_Cat13
Incorrect. These are all human beings. It doesn't take much to intervene with a human being, but that would mean having to deal with the outcome of that. Mangione is proof of that.
u/inappropriatethings
> AI datacenters are just massive radiators. Look into how much power they use and basically all of it gets released into that environment.
Boiling a river so we can have cute AI cat pics
u/Lazerpop
They need to play SOMA. They'll get immortality, but they won't live long enough to experience it.
u/And-Taxes
Have you ever met a philosophy PhD who didn't want to wax lyrical about it at any given opportunity?
u/sweetno
The article's author has some weird ideas about Enlightenment. There was an entire philosophical school preaching that the humanity gave up ideals of Enlightenment for mindless consumerism.
u/hamlet9000
The Enlightenment was, fundamentally, about living in a fact-based reality where you believe stuff is true because you can objectively prove it. It also promoted education, liberty, tolerance
u/letmeruinthisforyou
I don’t think the author is wrong on the merits! I think it’s a completely terrible article with embarrassing philosophical citations and just poorly written.
u/Tribe303
30 year IT guy here. Oh they know. The tech bros are all Libertarians so they simply don't give a shit. If Ayn Rand didn't give a shit, why should they? I want to leave the IT would because I
u/letmeruinthisforyou
I don’t think the author is wrong on the merits! I think it’s a completely terrible article with embarrassing philosophical citations and just poorly written.
u/MayaGuise
when are jobs that “ai will create” coming?
u/freakdageek
All CEOs are sociopaths. Without exception. Every single one of them. It’s required to do the job. _Everything_ that they do, regardless of the outcome, is for their personal benefit alone. I
u/IHadTacosYesterday
If Super Intelligence actually happens then capitalism will die. Period.
It might take 100 years or so, but it's completely inevitable. I don't know how somebody couldn't understand that
u/draft_final_final
Yarvin is Andrew Tate for tech billionaire chomos who have made extensive use of a blood boy and still look no younger than their actual age.
u/NatWilo
I love how all their bunkers are in places that are just so fucking stupid for someone looking to escape the consequences of massive societal upheaval and climate change. They're fucking tiny
u/hamlet9000
The Enlightenment was, fundamentally, about living in a fact-based reality where you believe stuff is true because you can objectively prove it. It also promoted education, liberty, tolerance
u/SplendidPunkinButter
> I paint in my spare time, but the images in my head are so much more realistic and complex than what I am able to paint today. Now, AI is collapsing the distance between imagination and
u/-UltraAverageJoe-
Tech CEOs that don’t know the granular details of their business think they can replace it with AI.
u/derekfig
None of these CEOs know how to implement or they are basically trying to find ways to do it, especially the ones not in tech, but coming up with no success whatsoever. Investors are pushing A
u/goldrunout
Nothing wrong with that, the problem is: do we advance society towards something better than capitalism, or will super intelligence send us back to what came before?
u/And-Taxes
Have you ever met a philosophy PhD who didn't want to wax lyrical about it at any given opportunity?
u/Puzzleheaded-Sky2284
The author claims to have a philosophy PhD, but he also wrote this garbage.
u/Mean_Nectarine_2685
They know. They just don’t care.
u/Danguard2020
The guy who builds the automation knows how it works. The boss doesn't.
Without a human hand to monitor the automation, it will break down after a few cycles.
If the boss sacks him, his au
u/i_make_orange_rhyme
People like your colleague will always find employment because they are flexible and adaptive.
90% of the team will be laid off and your colleague will get a promotion and a payrise.
If no
u/Downtown-Fall3677
Not a single CEO cares tbh, line go up is all that matters
u/Qorhat
Surely a big-ass ranch in the middle of Australia would be the best place to go. Unlimited space, away from major population centres, airble land for crops and livestock.
Nah let's build a B
u/Qorhat
The bunker thing is hilarious like will employee really be loyal to Zuckerberg when money has no value?
u/jixbo
This is in my opinion a more important argument;
AI is never great, but it's often useful.
What happens when you get by delivering meh stuff made by AI?
You can't become great. Current AI wi
u/anti-torque
yes
next question
u/DistrictNew4368
I have a colleague that keeps automating everything at work on his free time. Boss suggested implementing ai to automate some tasks. This guy does not understand that our boss will get rid of
u/bikernaut
Generally the star players just regurgitate the groupthink that Gartner barfs out. They get ahead not by innovating but by having stances that sounds right to their leadership. It’s the new
u/bikernaut
Generally the star players just regurgitate the groupthink that Gartner barfs out. They get ahead not by innovating but by having stances that sounds right to their leadership. It’s the new
u/DontEatCrayonss
Sociopaths do not care
u/WileEPeyote
I just watched Mountainhead and it's basically this. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't that deep.
Four billionaires plot a world takeover. They think they are the smartest humans on the planet bec
u/Sherry_Cat13
Incorrect. These are all human beings. It doesn't take much to intervene with a human being, but that would mean having to deal with the outcome of that. Mangione is proof of that.
u/Gorge2012
>They’re addicts to power
I remember a saying about the dangers on absolute power and what it does to people...
Also, I remember someone saying this back around 2017 that America is prim
u/KwisatzHaderach94
i think their interest is in developing ai to the point where they can digitize their consciousness so they can have virtual immortality.
u/Ok_Boysenberry5849
I guess they do know to some extent, but I also think we shouldn't underestimate how ignorant those guys are. They are good at management, marketing, economic strategy.
But their grasp of te
u/letmeruinthisforyou
Tech/gaming writers put out slop about freshman level philosophy. This is what you get. Incomprehensible trash that I’d fail an undergrad for.
u/sun827
Fire is still our greatest tool.
u/WileEPeyote
I just watched Mountainhead and it's basically this. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't that deep.
Four billionaires plot a world takeover. They think they are the smartest humans on the planet bec
u/NatWilo
I'd say to remind them that there was a time at the dawn of Electricity where a large number of people thought it was the cure for all of society's ailments, big and small, and they were just
u/NatWilo
I'd say to remind them that there was a time at the dawn of Electricity where a large number of people thought it was the cure for all of society's ailments, big and small, and they were just
u/Qorhat
Surely a big-ass ranch in the middle of Australia would be the best place to go. Unlimited space, away from major population centres, airble land for crops and livestock.
Nah let's build a B
u/MysteriousDatabase68
I'll disagree. A bunch of tech money is pimping their 'dark enlightenment' so the author is just throwing it back at them. And the tech bro's 'philosophical' ramblings are fairly selectivel
u/swattwenty
These people are so high on their own farts, reality appears to be a dream to them.
u/The_Whitest_Walker
Your colleague should try automating the boss.
u/BloodyJeff
Yep, classic disconnect. They see the high-level stuff but miss all the edge cases and nuances that actually make things work. AI looks like magic until you try to automate the messy reality
u/lajdbejdk
Nailed it. Replace the CEO’s with AI. That would suck but middle management for sure lol!
u/mcmonky
They are all Michael Mullen
u/Yutah
... thiefs and plagiators
u/IcedCoffeeVoyager
Bingo. They know, and they like the idea
u/jixbo
This is in my opinion a more important argument;
AI is never great, but it's often useful.
What happens when you get by delivering meh stuff made by AI?
You can't become great. Current AI wi
u/Danguard2020
The guy who builds the automation knows how it works. The boss doesn't.
Without a human hand to monitor the automation, it will break down after a few cycles.
If the boss sacks him, his au
u/IHadTacosYesterday
If Super Intelligence actually happens then capitalism will die. Period.
It might take 100 years or so, but it's completely inevitable. I don't know how somebody couldn't understand that
u/micmea1
They can't see past themselves. AI could make life easier for the working class. But they don't get it, nor do they have empathy for it. They don't understand that a few people working from h
u/FlavinFlave
It’s the fascists in charge and the billionaires who aren’t far removed from those fascists that scare me. You don’t buy a Hawaiian island to make a bunker because you have positive plans for
u/inappropriatethings
> AI datacenters are just massive radiators. Look into how much power they use and basically all of it gets released into that environment.
Boiling a river so we can have cute AI cat pics
u/FlavinFlave
Homeboys worth like 300 billion dollars. He can straight up build a biodome if he wants to and it’d just be a like buying a new computer to his yearly budget.
u/freakdageek
All CEOs are sociopaths. Without exception. Every single one of them. It’s required to do the job. _Everything_ that they do, regardless of the outcome, is for their personal benefit alone. I
u/Think_Monk_9879
I know these ceos are just hyping up their product but like how is it good advertisement to be like “our new ai is so good it’s going to wipe out humanity. I’m actually scared of what will h
u/i_make_orange_rhyme
People like your colleague will always find employment because they are flexible and adaptive.
90% of the team will be laid off and your colleague will get a promotion and a payrise.
If no
u/ora408
Its just salesmen selling. Nothing to see here
u/Downtown-Fall3677
Not a single CEO cares tbh, line go up is all that matters
u/lajdbejdk
Nailed it. Replace the CEO’s with AI. That would suck but middle management for sure lol!
u/squakmix
They think they'll be able to use ["disciplinary collars" to keep their security forces in line](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-ri
u/Mysterious_Spite8264
Greed knows no bounds. They’ve told America for 3 and a half decades that there is a “labor shortage” to justify importing cheap labor from overseas to suppress wages.
Their games are inten
u/SplendidPunkinButter
> I paint in my spare time, but the images in my head are so much more realistic and complex than what I am able to paint today. Now, AI is collapsing the distance between imagination and
u/Squibbles01
Tech CEOs think they're about to be gods in the new world order.
u/KwisatzHaderach94
i think their interest is in developing ai to the point where they can digitize their consciousness so they can have virtual immortality.
u/Huwbacca
I love that finally we are seeing that being in STEM is not a marker for overall intelligence.
These AI fanatics have appalling critical thinking skills, their ability to extrapolate and man
u/Low_Attention16
There are some, those that are brave enough.
u/draft_final_final
Yarvin is Andrew Tate for tech billionaire chomos who have made extensive use of a blood boy and still look no younger than their actual age.
u/escapegoat2000
Erm, The Enlightenment is responsible for science and reason and technology and ipads. Anti human fantasism (transhumanism) is actually just another religion where adherents try and build god
u/Sprinklypoo
Expecting their base to embrace being cut out of a job for their oligarchs benefit when they've been taught to villainize aliens for the same reason is maybe a stretch...
u/-UltraAverageJoe-
Tech CEOs that don’t know the granular details of their business think they can replace it with AI.
u/thrashalj
Bubble is coming. They are so disconnected from reality.
u/letmeruinthisforyou
I don’t think the author is wrong on the merits! I think it’s a completely terrible article with embarrassing philosophical citations and just poorly written.
u/TDP_Wikii
AI is a cult and most AI users especially those who use it for creativity are cultists.
u/AldusPrime
They love money and they hate humanity.
u/WileEPeyote
I just watched Mountainhead and it's basically this. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't that deep.
Four billionaires plot a world takeover. They think they are the smartest humans on the planet bec
u/IHadTacosYesterday
If Super Intelligence actually happens then capitalism will die. Period.
It might take 100 years or so, but it's completely inevitable. I don't know how somebody couldn't understand that
u/taznado
They were already pushing people around like meat sacks.
u/FlavinFlave
That’s basically Peter Thiel’s and the dark enlightened followers of Yarvin in a nutshell shell. Bunch of 4chan basement dwellers with money
u/wintrmt3
There is no arable land in the middle of Australia, it's a desert.
u/The_Whitest_Walker
Your colleague should try automating the boss.
u/-UltraAverageJoe-
Tech CEOs that don’t know the granular details of their business think they can replace it with AI.
u/DistrictNew4368
I have a colleague that keeps automating everything at work on his free time. Boss suggested implementing ai to automate some tasks. This guy does not understand that our boss will get rid of
u/SplendidPunkinButter
> I paint in my spare time, but the images in my head are so much more realistic and complex than what I am able to paint today. Now, AI is collapsing the distance between imagination and
u/kadfr
Tech disruption has almost never been a good thing. It is a highly aggressive form of opportunist capitalism with a technological sheen.
Tech 'disrupter' startups look to undercut existing s
u/infinitumpriori
When one listens to twisted understanding of history and philosophy from others, taking them at surface level, anyone can become a fanatic.
u/GreenFBI2EB
I think these AI execs should live in the towns whose water gets poisoned by this stuff.
u/ismelldayhikers
My director is a moron and the middle manager knows more than him
u/Gorge2012
>They’re addicts to power
I remember a saying about the dangers on absolute power and what it does to people...
Also, I remember someone saying this back around 2017 that America is prim
u/The_Whitest_Walker
Your colleague should try automating the boss.
u/draft_final_final
Yarvin is Andrew Tate for tech billionaire chomos who have made extensive use of a blood boy and still look no younger than their actual age.
u/wintrmt3
There is no arable land in the middle of Australia, it's a desert.
u/CorpPhoenix
"If we don't do it, the others will" is also a big part of it.
It seems like, even if we want to "stop developing it", we simply can't.
Maybe it's too late already and the Super-AI is alrea
u/AldusPrime
They love money and they hate humanity.
u/Disgruntled-Cacti
Not just don’t care, they’re absolutely salivating at the idea of completely crushing the bargaining power of the meat bags they employ.
u/Puzzleheaded-Sky2284
The author claims to have a philosophy PhD, but he also wrote this garbage.
u/MayaGuise
when are jobs that “ai will create” coming?
u/MayaGuise
when are jobs that “ai will create” coming?
u/swattwenty
These people are so high on their own farts, reality appears to be a dream to them.
u/sweetno
The article's author has some weird ideas about Enlightenment. There was an entire philosophical school preaching that the humanity gave up ideals of Enlightenment for mindless consumerism.
u/Perhaps_A_Cat
I know someone who's been a star player at all of the big names since before USB was also a power source.
He thinks China and AI is going to solve everything including climate change.
I h
u/MayaGuise
when are jobs that “ai will create” coming?
u/intoxicuss
People should stop believing any of these tech CEOs understand anything other than business. They’re not technically adept. They’re not scientists. They’re not philosophers. They’re the same
u/Jodid0
I don't really think people are seriously suggesting that AI wasn't here to stay, we've already had it in various forms for decades with machine learning and it has extreme potential. But it'
u/Perhaps_A_Cat
I know someone who's been a star player at all of the big names since before USB was also a power source.
He thinks China and AI is going to solve everything including climate change.
I h
u/NatWilo
I'd say to remind them that there was a time at the dawn of Electricity where a large number of people thought it was the cure for all of society's ailments, big and small, and they were just
u/GreenFBI2EB
I think these AI execs should live in the towns whose water gets poisoned by this stuff.
u/Nita231
Yep. If you can’t beat them, join them. Fuck everyone else.
u/CriticalNovel22
It's not hard to understand why people who stand to make a lot of money from X can't grasp why X might be bad.
u/ismelldayhikers
My director is a moron and the middle manager knows more than him
u/Austin1975
💯 Except the officials are actually complicit as they are beneficiaries. They get paid and many become multimillionaires from this arrangement.
u/shinbreaker
Yeah it's going to come down when one major investor finally gets tired of them burning money and asks them when are they going to make some money.
u/Mal_Dun
Marx approves. I took some time reading some on his works on automation (not even AI just high automation).
The guy predicted that if no one works anymore capitalism goes ad absurd um and di
u/Qorhat
The bunker thing is hilarious like will employee really be loyal to Zuckerberg when money has no value?
u/NatWilo
I love how all their bunkers are in places that are just so fucking stupid for someone looking to escape the consequences of massive societal upheaval and climate change. They're fucking tiny
u/Mysterious_Spite8264
Greed knows no bounds. They’ve told America for 3 and a half decades that there is a “labor shortage” to justify importing cheap labor from overseas to suppress wages.
Their games are inten
u/Qorhat
Surely a big-ass ranch in the middle of Australia would be the best place to go. Unlimited space, away from major population centres, airble land for crops and livestock.
Nah let's build a B
u/MyMomThinksImCool_32
That and we’ve conditioned ourselves as a society to think people with more money are more important or smarter because they’re made more money.
u/Gorge2012
>They’re addicts to power
I remember a saying about the dangers on absolute power and what it does to people...
Also, I remember someone saying this back around 2017 that America is prim
u/Perhaps_A_Cat
Biodomes require inputs and no one has successfully maintained a biodome for an appreciable amount of time with an intact closed ecosystem loop.
They are fucked.
u/Qorhat
Surely a big-ass ranch in the middle of Australia would be the best place to go. Unlimited space, away from major population centres, airble land for crops and livestock.
Nah let's build a B
u/taznado
They were already pushing people around like meat sacks.
u/Selenthys
> This guy does not understand that our boss will get rid of us once things are manageable for him to do it all
He understand it very well. He knows that the one implementing the automati
u/SuccotashOther277
Right it is a case by case thing. In my experience most directors are clueless about what goes in and middle managers mitigate the dumb decrees that come from directors or the c suite
u/Mal_Dun
If we look back at the big industrial revolutions, what all failed to see was that with new technology come new products and even more advanced technology.
People saw the current state of so
u/GCU_Problem_Child
They don't realise? Mate, they just don't give a shit. They couldn't care less what happens to everyone else, as long as they get to be king or queen of shit mountain. Stop apologizing for th
u/inappropriatethings
> AI datacenters are just massive radiators. Look into how much power they use and basically all of it gets released into that environment.
Boiling a river so we can have cute AI cat pics
u/intoxicuss
People should stop believing any of these tech CEOs understand anything other than business. They’re not technically adept. They’re not scientists. They’re not philosophers. They’re the same
u/rolloutTheTrash
It’s because they want people to consume without them having to pay. I’m not sure what they expect people to do once all jobs are AI and no one is making money, but that’s tomorrow’s problem.
u/UnpluggedUnfettered
Lol they are all in on AI like it's the Excel document that still runs core facets of their business.
u/Think_Monk_9879
I know these ceos are just hyping up their product but like how is it good advertisement to be like “our new ai is so good it’s going to wipe out humanity. I’m actually scared of what will h
u/Stishovite
Much of what the author writes is smack on target and if he had stopped about halfway through it would be a total banger.
But positioning AI techno-futurism as a successor to the enlightenme
u/benderrodrigyeahz
I don’t think the author gets enlightenment. If at all anything, enlightenment goes against the grain of new dictums of AI virtues. Enlightenment was and is taking full stock in humanity. Eve
u/niftystopwat
Yeah this speaks to the truth of what advanced capitalism will do to a person’s psyche. Imagine having a substance abuse problem, all of the complexities involved and difficulty in feeling su
u/Tribe303
30 year IT guy here. Oh they know. The tech bros are all Libertarians so they simply don't give a shit. If Ayn Rand didn't give a shit, why should they? I want to leave the IT would because I
u/Downtown-Fall3677
Not a single CEO cares tbh, line go up is all that matters
u/octahexxer
Maybe stop worshipping them
u/Yutah
... thiefs and plagiators
u/FlavinFlave
That’s basically Peter Thiel’s and the dark enlightened followers of Yarvin in a nutshell shell. Bunch of 4chan basement dwellers with money
u/siddemo
The leaders currently in the "AI" space are ill-equipped to be the ones guiding AI into the future. Their current trajectory is going to cause mass anxiety, unemployment, and possibly war an
u/Altiloquent
The thing is the top 1% wont even feel a recession and will probably be able to concentrate more wealth as a result.
u/Stishovite
Much of what the author writes is smack on target and if he had stopped about halfway through it would be a total banger.
But positioning AI techno-futurism as a successor to the enlightenme
u/Kay_tnx_bai
Enlightenment lol, greed and the utter lack of empathy is what that is.
u/Puzzleheaded-Sky2284
The author claims to have a philosophy PhD, but he also wrote this garbage.
u/squakmix
They think they'll be able to use ["disciplinary collars" to keep their security forces in line](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-ri
u/KwisatzHaderach94
i think their interest is in developing ai to the point where they can digitize their consciousness so they can have virtual immortality.
u/Nita231
I completely agree. Same thing with corporate farms. The owners should be forced to live on that same farmland.
u/nogeologyhere
But then what's the point? You're not painting, you're doing something else entirely. That's fine, but you can't call it painting or say it achieves the same thing.
u/KarmaFarmaLlama1
Definitely could be, but just like the internet didn't burst after the .com bubble burst in 2002, ai might still progress long term similarly.
u/modcowboy
This is all ceos - they don’t understand ai or their business at the level of detail required to replace jobs… but they sure do try! lol
u/sweetno
The article's author has some weird ideas about Enlightenment. There was an entire philosophical school preaching that the humanity gave up ideals of Enlightenment for mindless consumerism.
u/sun827
Fire is still our greatest tool.
u/protomenace
They think they are going to be the Methusalahs of the new Altered Carbon style world they will usher in.
u/nogeologyhere
But then what's the point? You're not painting, you're doing something else entirely. That's fine, but you can't call it painting or say it achieves the same thing.
u/lajdbejdk
Nailed it. Replace the CEO’s with AI. That would suck but middle management for sure lol!
u/swattwenty
These people are so high on their own farts, reality appears to be a dream to them.
u/FlavinFlave
If I’m alive long enough, that’s my goal.
u/Prior_Coyote_4376
Better idea: replace the shareholders with a worker democracy and elect the CEO
u/Jodid0
I don't really think people are seriously suggesting that AI wasn't here to stay, we've already had it in various forms for decades with machine learning and it has extreme potential. But it'
u/Lazerpop
They need to play SOMA. They'll get immortality, but they won't live long enough to experience it.
u/Good_Air_7192
Better still, if AI can replace workers, particularly within software companies, that means we can all create our own IT companies on our own that will compete with the big boys....just set u
u/Prior_Coyote_4376
Better idea: replace the shareholders with a worker democracy and elect the CEO
u/Sprinklypoo
Expecting their base to embrace being cut out of a job for their oligarchs benefit when they've been taught to villainize aliens for the same reason is maybe a stretch...
u/Stishovite
Much of what the author writes is smack on target and if he had stopped about halfway through it would be a total banger.
But positioning AI techno-futurism as a successor to the enlightenme
u/jixbo
This is in my opinion a more important argument;
AI is never great, but it's often useful.
What happens when you get by delivering meh stuff made by AI?
You can't become great. Current AI wi
u/NatWilo
I love how all their bunkers are in places that are just so fucking stupid for someone looking to escape the consequences of massive societal upheaval and climate change. They're fucking tiny
u/siddemo
The leaders currently in the "AI" space are ill-equipped to be the ones guiding AI into the future. Their current trajectory is going to cause mass anxiety, unemployment, and possibly war an
u/thrashalj
Bubble is coming. They are so disconnected from reality.
u/TDP_Wikii
AI is a cult and most AI users especially those who use it for creativity are cultists.
u/FlavinFlave
If I’m alive long enough, that’s my goal.
u/FrazzledHack
Finally, someone who read the article :)
u/Austin1975
💯 Except the officials are actually complicit as they are beneficiaries. They get paid and many become multimillionaires from this arrangement.
u/swattwenty
These people are so high on their own farts, reality appears to be a dream to them.
u/FlavinFlave
It’s the fascists in charge and the billionaires who aren’t far removed from those fascists that scare me. You don’t buy a Hawaiian island to make a bunker because you have positive plans for
u/NatWilo
I love how all their bunkers are in places that are just so fucking stupid for someone looking to escape the consequences of massive societal upheaval and climate change. They're fucking tiny
u/FlavinFlave
Homeboys worth like 300 billion dollars. He can straight up build a biodome if he wants to and it’d just be a like buying a new computer to his yearly budget.
u/Ok_Boysenberry5849
I guess they do know to some extent, but I also think we shouldn't underestimate how ignorant those guys are. They are good at management, marketing, economic strategy.
But their grasp of te
u/kadfr
Tech disruption has almost never been a good thing. It is a highly aggressive form of opportunist capitalism with a technological sheen.
Tech 'disrupter' startups look to undercut existing s
u/rolloutTheTrash
It’s because they want people to consume without them having to pay. I’m not sure what they expect people to do once all jobs are AI and no one is making money, but that’s tomorrow’s problem.
u/shinbreaker
More importantly, no one calls them out on it to their faces. Like when they talk at conferences, whoever is moderating is not going to push them hard unless they're a real journalist. When t
u/Nita231
Yep. If you can’t beat them, join them. Fuck everyone else.
u/-UltraAverageJoe-
Tech CEOs that don’t know the granular details of their business think they can replace it with AI.
u/Disgruntled-Cacti
Not just don’t care, they’re absolutely salivating at the idea of completely crushing the bargaining power of the meat bags they employ.
u/FrazzledHack
Finally, someone who read the article :)
u/Tech_Itch
Yeah, it's fucking wild blaming the Enlightenment, when the reason we have the humanities in the first place instead of just trusting "divine providence" or whatever, is the Enlightenment.
u/KarmaFarmaLlama1
Definitely could be, but just like the internet didn't burst after the .com bubble burst in 2002, ai might still progress long term similarly.
u/FlavinFlave
If I’m alive long enough, that’s my goal.
u/Austin1975
💯 Except the officials are actually complicit as they are beneficiaries. They get paid and many become multimillionaires from this arrangement.
u/Tech_Itch
Yeah, it's fucking wild blaming the Enlightenment, when the reason we have the humanities in the first place instead of just trusting "divine providence" or whatever, is the Enlightenment.
u/kadfr
This is only true as long as there are things that humans can do that AI cannot.
u/SplendidPunkinButter
> I paint in my spare time, but the images in my head are so much more realistic and complex than what I am able to paint today. Now, AI is collapsing the distance between imagination and
u/FlavinFlave
That’s basically Peter Thiel’s and the dark enlightened followers of Yarvin in a nutshell shell. Bunch of 4chan basement dwellers with money
u/hmds123
I just recently read Age of Surveillance Capitalism and your comment struck me to tears because of the fact that I believe what you are saying is undoubtedly true. History has shown as much.
u/Jodid0
I don't really think people are seriously suggesting that AI wasn't here to stay, we've already had it in various forms for decades with machine learning and it has extreme potential. But it'
u/goldrunout
Nothing wrong with that, the problem is: do we advance society towards something better than capitalism, or will super intelligence send us back to what came before?
u/modcowboy
This is all ceos - they don’t understand ai or their business at the level of detail required to replace jobs… but they sure do try! lol
u/Spend_Agitated
The author has a really cartoonish view of Enlightenment thought, which had a robust dialogue about the capabilities AND limitations of human reason. I stopped reading the moment he brought u
u/NatWilo
I'd say to remind them that there was a time at the dawn of Electricity where a large number of people thought it was the cure for all of society's ailments, big and small, and they were just
u/shinbreaker
Yeah it's going to come down when one major investor finally gets tired of them burning money and asks them when are they going to make some money.
u/hamlet9000
The Enlightenment was, fundamentally, about living in a fact-based reality where you believe stuff is true because you can objectively prove it. It also promoted education, liberty, tolerance
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u/Mysterious_Spite8264
Greed knows no bounds. They’ve told America for 3 and a half decades that there is a “labor shortage” to justify importing cheap labor from overseas to suppress wages.
Their games are inten
u/UnpluggedUnfettered
Lol they are all in on AI like it's the Excel document that still runs core facets of their business.
u/siddemo
The leaders currently in the "AI" space are ill-equipped to be the ones guiding AI into the future. Their current trajectory is going to cause mass anxiety, unemployment, and possibly war an
u/GreenFBI2EB
I think these AI execs should live in the towns whose water gets poisoned by this stuff.
u/MysteriousDatabase68
I'll disagree. A bunch of tech money is pimping their 'dark enlightenment' so the author is just throwing it back at them. And the tech bro's 'philosophical' ramblings are fairly selectivel
u/Sir_Keee
The thing you get by painting and being unsatisfied with the result is you get to try and try again. Maybe research some techniques and get some tips on how to improve until you might one day
u/shinbreaker
More importantly, no one calls them out on it to their faces. Like when they talk at conferences, whoever is moderating is not going to push them hard unless they're a real journalist. When t
u/Perhaps_A_Cat
I know someone who's been a star player at all of the big names since before USB was also a power source.
He thinks China and AI is going to solve everything including climate change.
I h
u/Nita231
I completely agree. Same thing with corporate farms. The owners should be forced to live on that same farmland.
u/KarmaFarmaLlama1
Definitely could be, but just like the internet didn't burst after the .com bubble burst in 2002, ai might still progress long term similarly.
u/IHadTacosYesterday
If Super Intelligence actually happens then capitalism will die. Period.
It might take 100 years or so, but it's completely inevitable. I don't know how somebody couldn't understand that
u/siddemo
The leaders currently in the "AI" space are ill-equipped to be the ones guiding AI into the future. Their current trajectory is going to cause mass anxiety, unemployment, and possibly war an
u/visualdescript
I mean, they already are. I think you're underestimating the influence of Alphabet and Meta.
u/Sprinklypoo
Expecting their base to embrace being cut out of a job for their oligarchs benefit when they've been taught to villainize aliens for the same reason is maybe a stretch...
u/Austin1975
💯 Except the officials are actually complicit as they are beneficiaries. They get paid and many become multimillionaires from this arrangement.
u/--Claire--
Also part of the point of creative endeavors is enjoying the process itself, not just the end result on its own.
u/Lazerpop
They need to play SOMA. They'll get immortality, but they won't live long enough to experience it.
u/AldusPrime
They love money and they hate humanity.
u/Qorhat
Yes I'm sure the people trained and equiped with weapons will really comply with that. Those bunkers will either be cracked open and looted like King Tut's tomb or people outside will just fi
u/Prior_Coyote_4376
Interesting profile pic you got there
u/UnpluggedUnfettered
Lol they are all in on AI like it's the Excel document that still runs core facets of their business.
u/i_make_orange_rhyme
People like your colleague will always find employment because they are flexible and adaptive.
90% of the team will be laid off and your colleague will get a promotion and a payrise.
If no
u/Shooord
I wouldn’t say they all have deep understanding of their domain.
Some just keep chasing the sci-fi utopia which is actually intended as a cautionary tale. It’s incredibly superficial.
u/JamesTheBadRager
Would love to witness one of them go ahead and replace everything with ai and watch everything falls apart without human supervision and input.
u/i_make_orange_rhyme
People like your colleague will always find employment because they are flexible and adaptive.
90% of the team will be laid off and your colleague will get a promotion and a payrise.
If no
u/gj29
My manager (middle manager) took this past week off and completely disconnected. I’ve been interfacing with my Director all week solving problems. He’s now back and, nice guy and all, but mid
u/consume-reproduce
AI is plainly labeled artificial.
u/niftystopwat
Yeah this speaks to the truth of what advanced capitalism will do to a person’s psyche. Imagine having a substance abuse problem, all of the complexities involved and difficulty in feeling su
u/gerdataro
AI is a sycophantic yes-man, which executives with poor leadership skills and inflated egos love. Good luck, geniuses and wunderkinds—you’re gonna need it.
u/squakmix
They think they'll be able to use ["disciplinary collars" to keep their security forces in line](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-ri
u/bikernaut
Generally the star players just regurgitate the groupthink that Gartner barfs out. They get ahead not by innovating but by having stances that sounds right to their leadership. It’s the new
u/Nita231
I completely agree. Same thing with corporate farms. The owners should be forced to live on that same farmland.
u/IcedCoffeeVoyager
Bingo. They know, and they like the idea
u/intoxicuss
People should stop believing any of these tech CEOs understand anything other than business. They’re not technically adept. They’re not scientists. They’re not philosophers. They’re the same
u/IcedCoffeeVoyager
Bingo. They know, and they like the idea
u/thrashalj
Bubble is coming. They are so disconnected from reality.
u/CriticalNovel22
It's not hard to understand why people who stand to make a lot of money from X can't grasp why X might be bad.
u/thrashalj
Bubble is coming. They are so disconnected from reality.
u/Mal_Dun
Marx approves. I took some time reading some on his works on automation (not even AI just high automation).
The guy predicted that if no one works anymore capitalism goes ad absurd um and di
u/Shooord
I wouldn’t say they all have deep understanding of their domain.
Some just keep chasing the sci-fi utopia which is actually intended as a cautionary tale. It’s incredibly superficial.
u/Tribe303
30 year IT guy here. Oh they know. The tech bros are all Libertarians so they simply don't give a shit. If Ayn Rand didn't give a shit, why should they? I want to leave the IT would because I
u/Good_Air_7192
Better still, if AI can replace workers, particularly within software companies, that means we can all create our own IT companies on our own that will compete with the big boys....just set u
u/letmeruinthisforyou
Tech/gaming writers put out slop about freshman level philosophy. This is what you get. Incomprehensible trash that I’d fail an undergrad for.
u/jixbo
This is in my opinion a more important argument;
AI is never great, but it's often useful.
What happens when you get by delivering meh stuff made by AI?
You can't become great. Current AI wi
u/Stishovite
Much of what the author writes is smack on target and if he had stopped about halfway through it would be a total banger.
But positioning AI techno-futurism as a successor to the enlightenme
u/Nita231
Yep. If you can’t beat them, join them. Fuck everyone else.
u/FrazzledHack
Finally, someone who read the article :)
u/Huwbacca
I love that finally we are seeing that being in STEM is not a marker for overall intelligence.
These AI fanatics have appalling critical thinking skills, their ability to extrapolate and man
u/BloodyJeff
Yep, classic disconnect. They see the high-level stuff but miss all the edge cases and nuances that actually make things work. AI looks like magic until you try to automate the messy reality
u/Sir_Keee
The thing you get by painting and being unsatisfied with the result is you get to try and try again. Maybe research some techniques and get some tips on how to improve until you might one day
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u/TDP_Wikii
AI is a cult and most AI users especially those who use it for creativity are cultists.
u/Squibbles01
Tech CEOs think they're about to be gods in the new world order.
u/TDP_Wikii
AI is a cult and most AI users especially those who use it for creativity are cultists.
u/TheWrongOwl
Oh they know.
They just don't care, because their workers will all be replaced by robots and AIs.
Then they sit in their freedom cities while the rest of humanity is criminalised for not ha
u/Earthtopian
Oh, they absolutely do care. They just don't feel bad about it. They want it.
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u/BloodyJeff
Yep, classic disconnect. They see the high-level stuff but miss all the edge cases and nuances that actually make things work. AI looks like magic until you try to automate the messy reality
u/gerdataro
AI is a sycophantic yes-man, which executives with poor leadership skills and inflated egos love. Good luck, geniuses and wunderkinds—you’re gonna need it.
u/Kay_tnx_bai
Enlightenment lol, greed and the utter lack of empathy is what that is.
u/shinbreaker
More importantly, no one calls them out on it to their faces. Like when they talk at conferences, whoever is moderating is not going to push them hard unless they're a real journalist. When t
u/shinbreaker
Yeah it's going to come down when one major investor finally gets tired of them burning money and asks them when are they going to make some money.
u/Low_Attention16
There are some, those that are brave enough.
u/Qorhat
Yes I'm sure the people trained and equiped with weapons will really comply with that. Those bunkers will either be cracked open and looted like King Tut's tomb or people outside will just fi
u/protomenace
They think they are going to be the Methusalahs of the new Altered Carbon style world they will usher in.
u/Spend_Agitated
The author has a really cartoonish view of Enlightenment thought, which had a robust dialogue about the capabilities AND limitations of human reason. I stopped reading the moment he brought u
u/Sterling_-_Archer
Last Call Before AGI
u/Qorhat
Yes I'm sure the people trained and equiped with weapons will really comply with that. Those bunkers will either be cracked open and looted like King Tut's tomb or people outside will just fi
u/bikernaut
Generally the star players just regurgitate the groupthink that Gartner barfs out. They get ahead not by innovating but by having stances that sounds right to their leadership. It’s the new
u/DontEatCrayonss
Sociopaths do not care
u/squakmix
They think they'll be able to use ["disciplinary collars" to keep their security forces in line](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-ri
u/FlavinFlave
That’s basically Peter Thiel’s and the dark enlightened followers of Yarvin in a nutshell shell. Bunch of 4chan basement dwellers with money
u/ConcreteRacer
They surely don't see it that way.
To recognize this, they'd have to consider people "beneath them" as human, and afaik that's not really part of their dark enlightenment philosophy
u/Mean_Nectarine_2685
They know. They just don’t care.
u/Shooord
I wouldn’t say they all have deep understanding of their domain.
Some just keep chasing the sci-fi utopia which is actually intended as a cautionary tale. It’s incredibly superficial.
u/TheWrongOwl
Oh they know.
They just don't care, because their workers will all be replaced by robots and AIs.
Then they sit in their freedom cities while the rest of humanity is criminalised for not ha
u/derekfig
None of these CEOs know how to implement or they are basically trying to find ways to do it, especially the ones not in tech, but coming up with no success whatsoever. Investors are pushing A
u/Tech_Itch
Yeah, it's fucking wild blaming the Enlightenment, when the reason we have the humanities in the first place instead of just trusting "divine providence" or whatever, is the Enlightenment.
u/MysteriousDatabase68
I'll disagree. A bunch of tech money is pimping their 'dark enlightenment' so the author is just throwing it back at them. And the tech bro's 'philosophical' ramblings are fairly selectivel
u/Sir_Keee
The thing you get by painting and being unsatisfied with the result is you get to try and try again. Maybe research some techniques and get some tips on how to improve until you might one day
u/benderrodrigyeahz
I don’t think the author gets enlightenment. If at all anything, enlightenment goes against the grain of new dictums of AI virtues. Enlightenment was and is taking full stock in humanity. Eve
u/IcedCoffeeVoyager
Bingo. They know, and they like the idea
u/SuccotashOther277
Right it is a case by case thing. In my experience most directors are clueless about what goes in and middle managers mitigate the dumb decrees that come from directors or the c suite
u/Downtown-Fall3677
Not a single CEO cares tbh, line go up is all that matters
u/Squibbles01
Tech CEOs think they're about to be gods in the new world order.