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by throwaway173738 316 days ago
Even if we somehow create AGI it will only be used to saddle the masses, not free them. There are a lot of people with money who yearn for absolute power over everything. Replacing your capacity to think with a subscription service makes you a serf. Like Spotify, Netflix, Amazon and so on the last 20 years is full of brand new subscriptions that replace the whole concept of ownership so thoroughly that it gets erased. It pumps up the company’s valuation to do that.