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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago

nor that they give a rat's ass about sustainability, humanity, earth etc like some of them like Elon claims

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

$999,999,999 is just fine though!

Stop focusing on an arbitrary figure and start focusing on a real progressive income tax with no loopholes or workarounds.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

$999,999,999 is just fine though!

Better than $450 billion, gotta start somewhere

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[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I don't even know who the first one is and I'm kind of afraid of finding out

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[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The existence of an "AI race" between China and the U.S., where government contracted billionaires in both countries insist that citizens accepting authoritarian surveillance, is just a patriotic duty necessary to win that race, is a policy failure.

Especially when investigative journalism uncovers in 2025 that the U.S./Silicon Valley sold China the mass surveillance system that has allegedly given them such an upper hand in this imaginary race.

2019: Trump CTO Addresses AI, Facial Recognition, Immigration, Tech Infrastructure, and More

Q:"Maintaining U.S. leadership in AI might have costs in terms of individuals and society. What costs should individuals and society bear to maintain leadership?”

A:“I don’t view the world that way. Our companies big and small do not hesitate to talk about the values that underpin their technology. [That is] markedly different from the way our adversaries think. The alternatives are so dire [that we] need to push efforts to bake the values that we hold dear into this technology.”...“A patchwork of regulation of technology is not beneficial for the country. We want to avoid that. Facial recognition has important roles—for example, finding lost or displaced children. There are use cases, but they need to be underpinned by values.”

The baked in "values" of the men telling you not to worry about regulations:

2025: Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

2025: Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

2025: Palantir CEO slams ‘parasitic’ critics calling the tech a surveillance tool: ‘Not only is patriotism right, patriotism will make you rich’

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 1 points 3 days ago

Time to bring out the soluti-honhonhon.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

If there was a space race then you can guarantee that elon would want it out of the country.

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

It's not a policy failure; it's a feature of the system. We need a different system that doesn't allow the existence of billionaires to begin with

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I am not in a theme, but what bad in having them moving the progress by doing the space race? Maybe they are jerks, but they try to do something. Or, at least, pretend to. Can someone explain why there is so much hate towards them?

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