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Re:OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB by smokedetector1 on Friday December 20, 2024 @05:42PM (#42475846)
By far the greatest issue facing humanity today is wealth inequality.
Re:OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB by xvector on Friday December 20, 2024 @10:27PM (#42477318)
Nah, it's death. People objectively are doing better than ever despite wealth inequality. By all metrics - poverty, quality of life, homelessness, wealth, purchasing power.

I'd rather just... not die. Not unless I want to. Same for my loved ones. That's far more important than "wealth inequality."

Re:OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB by esafak on Saturday December 21, 2024 @03:55PM (#42482216)
You don't mind living in a country with a population of billions [sic], piled on top of one another? You don't mind living a country ruled by gerontocracy and probably autocracy, because that's what you'll eventually get without death to flush them out.

Senescence is an adaptation.

Re:OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB by xvector on Saturday December 21, 2024 @07:11PM (#42483385)
"You/your loved ones should die because Elon would die too" is a terrible argument. It's not great, but it's not worth dying over. New rich bad people would take his place anyways.

"You should die because cities will get crowded" is a less terrible argument but still a bad one. We have room for at least double our population on this planet, couples choosing longevity can be required to have <=1 children until there is room for more, we will eventually colonize other planets, etc.

All this is implying that consciousness will continue to take up a meaningful amount of physical space. Not dying in the long term implies gradual replacement and transfer to a virtual medium at some point.

Re:OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB by smokedetector1 on Monday December 23, 2024 @10:28AM (#42495062)
> People objectively are doing better than ever despite wealth inequality. By all metrics - poverty, quality of life, homelessness, wealth, purchasing power.

If you take this as an axiom, it will always be true ;).