| > To your first point about lying, surely that’s not the bar you’d like to set? Its literally the dictionary definition. > Misleading investors is pretty much the greatest talent of all of history’s greatest capitalists - were they all grifters? Is it the extent of the lying that matters? Some are. Plenty are in the grey. But there is a big difference between objectively lying like in theranos, and hyping things up questionably. There is a reason why Theranos people are in jail, while many a hype man walk free. > anyone’s working definition of capitalism. How about the dictionary definition of capitalism. Private individuals owning and controlling the means of production and subjecting to their whims is as fundamental to capitalisim as you can get. Maybe there is an exception for monopolies, but i dont think any of the AI companies are monopolies. > held by few individuals who are not as well-informed and smart as they think they are I mean, seems to be working out pretty well for them. Can't argue with success. > The system is supposed to work in the way that we design it to work Key word being "we". As in society. Not you personally. > There’s a culture of grift and exploitation running rampant in the US at the moment, and this sort of apologia only serves to exacerbate. People making heated diatribes instead of cold logical arguments serve to exacerbate it. |
Your arguments aren’t nearly as logical as you think they are, they merely tell the rest of us the blind spots your world view is plagued by.