People have been afraid of change since we starting carving sticks and painting stick figures on walls. It’s good to be cautious, but history has proven time and time again that the fear of change is unwarranted. Evolution is necessary for our advancement, both as a species physically, and as a consciousness.

I’m excited, personally.

It’s not my fault people can’t process exponentials.

AGI no later than 2025.

The rich aren't a genocidal hivemind.

I love dunking on them as much as the next person, but all these doomsayings about the rich murdering everyone for the lolz misses one detail: If they got rid of the poor, and only they are left, that makes them all the new shades of poor and middle class, with maybe a literal handful getting to remain as kings and queen's of shot mountain.

As for putting the Normals into interment camps...yeah...like that would go over well for any but the most psychopathic of the tippy top of them. People like Musk and Zuckerberg are absolute dicks but I HIGHLY doubt they would think putting most of the human race into concentration camps for nothing more than the Lolz would be a remotely sound idea.

The rich are monsterous for their assholish thoughlessness and lack of use of their powers to change the world for the better. Not because they're literally itching to execute a supervillain plot to eradicate most of the world.

It's a miss-read of their character more than anything else. The way I'd frame it is that a schoolyard bully could be the absolute worst piece of shit you've ever met, but when that same schoolyard bully turns 18 and becomes an adult they arent going to start robbing banks, mug people in alleyways, or commit random acts of murder for the fun of it.

Rich people by and large have a bully mindset. Bullies need people weaker than them to function. Bullies need rules and systems they can work in to torment people while shielding themselves. And while certainly some of them would be down for wholesale murder, perhaps even a significant portion of them, I HIGHLY doubt the Koch Brothers or Bill Gates or the Walmarts would actively seek the deaths of normal people for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

If you're going to be worried, worry about the far more likely possibility of rich AND religious psychopaths (the Saudis for example) deciding to Kickstart the literal apocalypse because they think programing a murder swarm to kill all non-muslimsq would make them best friends with God or whatever the fuck. That's something that's way more likely I'd say.

Anyways, all in all, it's a moot point because at the rate of current progress well be getting AGI relatively soon, meanwhile the best robotics tech is still laboratory tier and nanotechnology ot self replicating stuff is still all but pure sci-fi. Even if the rich did want to do that, the means they'd need to do so, I'd reckon, are still further away than the solutions the common human is hoping for. And if the rich tried to keep it to themselves, then maybe they'll finally understand how big of a number 8,000,000,000 really is, and just how outnumbered they really are.

Take your meds.

Take your meds.