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Re:France comes to standstill livid workers protest plan to ... by piloto_ciego on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @07:02PM (#35063262)
Sometimes people fail to recognize that the oldest super powerful artificial intelligence is several hundred years old. It’s our economic system.

It’s the software running on all our “wet ware” that convinces us to value productivity and money over human life, the environment, or happiness. It is the paper clip maximizer and it’s happily churning away.

But we’re not maximizing paper clips we’re maximizing profits .

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Re:France comes to standstill livid workers protest plan to ... by jtr1 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @07:53PM (#35063730)
They all like to say the free market is the optimal computer of value until you compare it to runaway AI
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Re:France comes to standstill livid workers protest plan to ... by Dig1t on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @08:34PM (#35064019)
What does it mean to value human life? I would argue that the economic engine has given us ALL of the improvements in quality of life, and the fact that we live so much longer than we used to, IS valuing human life. There is no other way we could have given ourselves all of the amazing things (tech-wise) we have today.

Why would we value the environment over human lives? That just seems like nature-worship.

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Re:France comes to standstill livid workers protest plan to ... by studentik on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:56PM (#35064623)
> seems like nature-worship

Why not?

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