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0913856742 t1_j07bbfv wrote

Reply to comment by Clarkeprops in The problem isn’t AI, it’s requiring us to work to live by jamesj

Friend, you need to calm down. From the tone of your other posts, you sound very angry at something but I have no idea what.

The point I was trying to get across, is that everyone in Starfleet wants to be there, even if there's no monetary reward. In this fictional future, the real prize is social prestige. And that changes everything.

The equivalent would be if someone was developing the next AI system, or the next iPhone, not out of the hope to reap massive profits, but because they felt it was something that could advance the species.

There's a shift from the very narrow goal of profit to the much more grand ideals of improving us as a civilization. That's the difference.

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SnipingNinja t1_j0af29e wrote

Imagine if things were made for the sake of public good instead of monetary gains like you said, there wouldn't be any scams, maybe some trolls but not scams, iPhone wouldn't be locked down either, every device would've the best chipset, etc

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0913856742 t1_j0afykw wrote

Yeah, and we also could've started addressing climate change decades earlier. Sometimes it feels like the profit motive poisons us both metaphorically and literally.

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SnipingNinja t1_j0alsec wrote

For sure, so many problems could've been solved if profit was not the main driver of… everything

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