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iStoleTheHobo t1_jce0127 wrote

Reply to comment by Coachtzu in "This Changes Everything" by Ezra Klein--The New York Times by izumi3682

>We need to figure out how we adapt to a world where our work does not and should not define us.

Precisely. Nobody seems to talk about this particular point but let's put it like this: If the artificial intelligence revolution will be bigger than the splitting of the atom why the hell would we allow the private sector to govern these tools? Do we allow private companies to handle atom bombs?

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Cheapskate-DM t1_jce1kn8 wrote

Atom bombs require uranium. Uranium comes from mines. Mines occupy land. And if governance has any talent which it can reliably manage, it's keeping people away from a given piece of land.

Code has no such restriction.

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