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Left the end of his statement off the quote..
"So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality."
Stephen Hawking, quoted in "Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared Of Capitalism, Not Robots" Huffington Post, (8 October 2015)
Those in power at the time of his quote (and since) have done everything they can to put their foot on the accelerator, and it's now worse than ever π
itβs now worse than ever
I believe the little kids crawling in working machines during the industrial revolution when all of this shit started might disagree
Get your point, but I was referring to recent history given the context of his statement.
I'd argue that it's still worse now too.. Seeing as we have everything from little kids in Africa foraging heaping dumps of toxic electronics waste from first-world nations and burning it in piles to extract metals - destroying their health and lives in the process - to Palantir AI literally drone-striking children's all-girls primary schools that it mislabels as terrorist targets and wiping out hundreds of children at a time..
I do not accept that cowardly 'it was the AI' excuse to absolve them from their DELIBERATE hits on 100's of schools hospitals and medicine factories in Iran.
The USSA did it decades before AI. Disgusting that these weasels don't even have the guts to admit it
And the USSA population largely doesn't give a fuck about those Iranian or other dead girls.
They are against the war, but their objections are that gas prices are high and risking those brave hero baby killing soldiers lives.
Oh yeah.... Def... definitely doesn't happen any more. Just, uh, don't look anywhere around the world and you can keep believing that...
2018
He's been dead for EIGHT YEARS?!
