Re:Sergey Brin: “Irate Call from Steve Jobs”
by ben_w on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @04:53AM
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It's deeper than capitalism, power-acquisition is such a fundamental part of agents that it's part of the problem space for "how do we pre-emptively prevent an AI dystopia?"
Capitalism is[0] "huh, even greedy people can be useful, because their greed is best served by supplying other people's needs".
[0] or, I should say, some forms of it are, because Laissez-faire died with the New Deal as hard and for the same reasons as USSR-style Communism (the economic system not the dictatorship)
He was just a capitalist. That's how capitalism works, by definition, i.e. extracting the most surplus-value from the workers (in this case the Apple employees). Increased their salaries (i.e. making a "better offer") would have decreased the surplus-value extracted by Jobs, hence why he was angry.