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Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math by porsager on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:57AM (#50148874)
I think there should be a political movement that retries capitalism with AI. Basically liberate everything and then automate everything. I think people could get behind that.
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math by ludston on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:22AM (#50149374)
Good ole mass-starvation for the majority that can't find work that appeases the ownership class? It's a unique value-system I suppose.
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math by pantalaimon on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:52AM (#50149572)
Mass starvation was more of a communism thing, not accounting for wars.
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math by marcusverus on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:15PM (#50155086)
Hilarious inversion of reality. Top marks.
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math by ludston on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:30PM (#50159842)
I'm sure that hunger has been a bigger problem in Africa and India than it has been in any socialist state in our lifetimes.
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math by ivewonyoung on Monday October 19, 2026 @10:38PM (#50160710)
Huh, India was socialist.
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math by marcusverus on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @02:44PM (#50170804)
Africa's dysfunction isn't due to capitalism nor would be improved by the alternatives, as evidenced by the total collapse of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe when it was taken over by collectivists. Similarly, the proportion of Indians living in extreme poverty in India has been reduced by ~90% since it shifted to a market economy around '91.
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math by idiotsecant on Monday October 19, 2026 @06:30AM (#50150656)
A system where the humans value is tied to their ability to outproduce a massively more capable machine intelligence? How does that work, exactly?
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math by triceratops on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:16PM (#50156701)
Capitalism is already a planet-scale neural network optimizing a loss function: profit. The nodes in the network just happen to be humans.

Capitalism with AI would be exactly the same thing, but zero compassion (unless the AI has been trained for it).