• MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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    1 month ago

    $7trillion is three times the GDP if Brazil. It is bigger then the US federal budget. Seriously it is insane.

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      1 month ago

      This guy is an absolute lunatic.

      “Gimme all of the world’s money several times over for this fancy T9 that I’m playing with.”

      If someone wrote a cartoon villain using his quotes, it would be dismissed as unbelievable and rubbish.

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      1 month ago

      A-and all that money is basically scammed out of hype over something that won’t be the thing people think it will be, because that would be a magic wand for everything.

      When they mean artificial intelligence, they mean some kind of self-designing civilization, except it does their bidding. Goethe’s Zauberlehrling comes to mind.

      And a lot of money does find a way to do things, just like a lot of effort applied does find a way to break something. Except the curves are not linear, and no amount of effort and money has allowed us to settle Mars yet.