• maol@awful.systems
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    1 year ago

    There’s a reason there aren’t any aristocrats living in the shagging things anymore - you need a big staff and a lot of resources to run them! They only made economic sense when there were throngs of peasants to work in them for cheap or free, and people had very different expectations when it came to energy, heating and lighting.

    It’s hard to see what OpenAI could have gotten out of this purchase, except the chance to fulfil their Bond villain fantasies.

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      1 year ago

      Are you undervaluing how important it is to them to fulfill their Bond villain fantasies?

      (Anyway the x-risk people think there’ll be hoards of peasants to staff them as soon as the Evil AI/Dirty Bomb/Typhoon destroys civilization, and they need a place to live when they open their survival bunkers.)