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To the contrary, no one worried about its failure states is dismissing it. They believe that even if it doesn’t match its hype, it’s going to destabilize society.

It’s already trivializing being rewarded for art. You want to be paid while you learn how to make excellent art work and CGI? Well just how will that work?

Phishing scams are now profitable for victim types it wasnt before.

Education is taking a hammering, that biblical is a fair adjective to apply. Most courses will have to resort to pen and paper exams, a reversal of digitization changes since the 90s.

This isn’t even if things hit the hype levels



And the question to ask here is: for what?

Why are we doing all this to ourselves? So the rich get even richer while the rest is even worse off?

Why are smart minds enabling this? My university had mandatory computer science ethics classes. I used to think they were a waste of time. Clearly, I was wrong.




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