• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    Over god sake this again.

    They wouldn’t do it if it was going to actually destroy the world. Even trillionaires need to live in the world unless they seriously think they’re gonna build Elysium.

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      3 days ago

      They think that can buy their way out of the consequences, and they are right. Economic crashes will not functionally hurt those people and they won’t be affected by climate change other then having to buy a different set of houses. Also a couple of them are trying to build Elysium.

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        3 days ago

        The people working on AI are definitely not going to be millionaires. I’m talking about the so called scientists, who claim to believe they are working on The Manhattan Project 2.0: Armageddon, yet still apparently stay.

        So what’s the story here they go home at the end of the day to their family and say today with a good day I think the world will be destroyed by the end of 2027 but hey ho, at least I’ve got a pay rise, just need to make sure to spend it before next August.

        Give me a break. Anyone who is actually working on a project that they thought was going to destroy the world would stop working on it.

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          2 days ago

          You clearly have no idea how much ai engineers are paid, and even less of an idea how their stock options are priced.

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            2 days ago

            What are you talking about. The engineers the ground level folk that a developing this stuff yes they’re paid highly but they’re not millionaires by any stretch in the imagination. Building a system that will crash the entire economic system of the Earth is not beneficial to them.

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              13 hours ago

              The average salary of the 60+ people left at character.ai is $1m, according to the news about disney buying them. Even a bankrupt one can make millionaires.

              The hundreds, perhaps thousands of people working on ai are millionaires. I dont know that being a millionaire is a great sign of anything anymore, but theyll have done it with just a few years of work.

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              The main engineers buildings this stuff are millionaires. They’ve been making probably $400k on the low end and we know of salaries over a million on the high end.

              Still not enough to survive an actual world collapse though.

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      2 days ago

      What metrics do they look at to know if the end of the world is going to happen? What historical context patterns do they look at? “actually” destroy the world as if they know what “actually” will destroy their worlds