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Re:Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused o... by NiloCK on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @08:01AM (#45899621)
Trying to engage in good faith here but I don't really get this. You're pretending to have never encountered positive visions of technologically advanced futures.

Cure all disease?

Stop aging?

End material scarcity?

It's completely fair to expect that these are all twisted monkey's paw scenarios that turn out dystopian, but being unable to understand any positive motivations for the creation of AGI seems a bit far fetched.

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Re:Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused o... by rchaud on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @09:03AM (#45900298)
That the development of this technology is in the hands of a few people that don't use even a fraction of their staggering wealth to address these challenges now, tells me that they aren't interested in using AI to solve them later.
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