The world's tech billionaires are starting to moderate their rhetoric on AI automation, but that doesn't mean it's all in good faith.

cross-posted from: https://kbin.earth/m/[email protected]/t/2771990

As data centers are shut down by angry mobs and AI surveillance cameras are ripped from their poles, the world’s tech billionaires and CEOs are waking up to the reality that the masses are, broadly speaking, not on board with their plan to automate the world with AI.

  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    You don’t fund Genocide with your taxes. You pay taxes to the government and the government chooses to fund the genocide.

    So, we fund genocide with our taxes. The least you could do is acknowledge it.

    • theparadox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Paying money into a pool from which good and bad things may be funded and having a specific bad thing (SBT) get funded is not the same as funding a SBT.

      If I refuse to pay my $1000 tax bill and the government decides to cut food aid to needy children by $1000 to compensate while still funding that SBT… was I funding the SBT or was I feeding needy children?

      If I pay my taxes to a government that doesn’t do the SBT, and they decide to start doing the SBT that fiscal year… did I fund the SBT?

      It’s simple - I was paying my taxes. The government chose to allocate some of that to do the SBT.