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Re:When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self... by ezconnect on Friday June 05, 2026 @03:52AM (#48409381)
For the Capitalist crowd, YES it is the biggest cost. The next is energy. Imagine a world where your research and development is all AI and the production is all automated by robots. Instant product to sell to the masses who has no money because no one is working.
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Re:When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self... by TheOtherHobbes on Friday June 05, 2026 @04:56AM (#48409855)
In the future a few thousand billionaire geniuses will own a world of unimaginable luxury and near-infinite longevity. They will make the decisions, AI will execute them, and robots will do the physical work.

Everyone else will be reduced to compost.

It's the perfect plan. The final definitive justification for capitalism.

The masses are unnecessary. The masses will be optimised.

What could possibly go wrong?

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Re:When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self... by ahtihn on Friday June 05, 2026 @07:22AM (#48410900)
Why do billionaires keep working, keep amassing more money, donate to politicians, buy media companies?

They want influence and power. Being at the top of a hierarchy of millions, billions of people.

If there are no massess the 1000th billionaire will be a the bottom of the hierarchy instead of near the top. They don't want that. The masses are needed to give them the sense of power.

What these people want is power and control. Eliminating the masses goes against that.

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Re:When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self... by bigbuppo on Friday June 05, 2026 @11:34AM (#48413956)
They now have the AI that gives them the praise they want. We have been made redundant.
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Re:When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self... by timacles on Friday June 05, 2026 @01:15PM (#48415484)
I don’t think that’s it. I think the only thing that motivates billionaire is just to have more than the next guy.

The only thing that motivates Bezos is that Elon Musk’s has more and conversely Elon Musk would have a existential crisis if he was no longer number one

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Re:When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self... by jpadkins on Friday June 05, 2026 @01:21PM (#48415562)
why only a few thousand? serious question.
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Re:When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self... by aiisjustanif on Saturday June 06, 2026 @12:53AM (#48421515)
Reminds me of Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan, there is also a cancelled series on Netflix that had an awesome first season.
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