@BasicOptimism 1) Selling shares doesn’t automatically tank value, how do you think Elon bought Twitter in the first place? Selling shares without tanking the value
2) it’s not like the stock disappears if he sells, it just transfers ownership. Seller = Buyer.
It redistributes economic power.
@Uptown_MMA@jason_sifford@omgsidewalks Because AI will become a necessity to function in the economy. When you have to regularly pay a group of ppl to be even slightly competitive, you create a serf and master class that perpetuates infinitely towards all assets.
It’s the start of the hunger games mate.
@_Tsargd@jason_sifford@omgsidewalks Exactly my point. People forget it was free first, oldest trick in business, ever.
AI should 100% be a public asset, private AI will make 99% of the population a slave class paying rent to the AI landlords.
@TolNiels@RyanShorthouse@zannymb@elonmusk No we wouldn’t just laugh and basically ignore him, because he has an influential media platform which he uses to peddle and magnify lies about our country, leading to actual harm.
So yes we would call him out for that.
@RichardHanania Yeah unfortunately these “geniuses” have got high on their own supply and don’t realise how epistemologically blind they are on so many topics.
They are very good at a certain type of thinking which has become profitable as of recent, they are nowhere near all round genius tho.