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Re:The Contradictions of Sam Altman, AI Crusader by throwawaylinux on Sunday April 02, 2023 @04:39AM (#35408446)
The assumption of a benevolent government of experts and moral leaders making decisions for the greater good has killed literally millions of people stolen trillions of dollars in war since WWII, and that's just counting western liberal democracies.

If you don't implicitly trust "the market", and you shouldn't, then you can't trust the government. What's it going to take to convince you that handing over more of your rights and money won't enable the government to solve problems it previously could not have.

"The government should fix that" is no less ridiculous than "the free market could fix that". Which is to say it can occasionally be true with a lot of caveats, and often wrong.

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Re:The Contradictions of Sam Altman, AI Crusader by stonogo on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:15PM (#35427602)
It's super interesting that you immediately started railing against the government, which I didn't even mention. I'm critical of currently-popular economic dogma, and I don't understand why that should imply that I'm some kind of authoritarian socialist.
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