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Re:Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positiv... by paytonjjones on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:17PM (#48575380)
How exactly are the superrich today living like gods? They use the same phones, have access to the same entertainment, same internet, same information. Most spend a lot more time stressed out and working. The poor today live better (or, at the very least more "preferenced") lives than ever in human history.

Big houses, yachts, nice cars I guess?

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Re:Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positiv... by ben_w on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:29PM (#48575565)
> How exactly are the superrich today living like gods?

A lot of us are, not just the super-rich.

"We are close to gods, and on the far side", as Banks put it. Or, as I wrote a while ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40874779

I really ought to turn this into a youtube video.

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Re:Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positiv... by paytonjjones on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:39PM (#48575735)
Love this
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Re:Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positiv... by fireflash38 on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:34PM (#48575642)
Hey guys, we don't have ebola or malaria ok, shut up and go back to work.
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Re:Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positiv... by paytonjjones on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:38PM (#48575704)
You're confusing "things have gotten better" with "things are good enough and shouldn't improve further"

These are close to opposites in their implications

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