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1. mgaldys4 · 1790086411 · focus · HN ↗

   Even the Millennium Prize Problems have, in a way, become benchmarks for model companies to prove themselves. The smartest individuals among humans are becoming replaceable. Intelligence has become a product you can quantify and buy with electricity. That feels awful.

   1. kypro · 1790086742 · focus · HN ↗

      All technology on the tech tree which requires intelligence to unlock will soon be available to humanity – mind control, population exterminating bioweapons, new ultra destructive kinetic weaponry, perhaps even a cure for cancer.

      1. dgellow · 1790086976 · focus · HN ↗

         That won’t happen. But also, whatever benefits are unlocked will be owned mostly by a small group of individuals, definitely not available to humanity as a whole.

         1. pixl97 · 1790087111 · focus · HN ↗

            >will be owned mostly by a small group

            So not any different from right now.

            >definitely not available to humanity as a whole.

            [taps on forehead meme]

            The whole of humanity can have it available, if there is a whole lot less humanity.

            1. dgellow · 1790087496 · focus · HN ↗

               So, yes, different from right now :)

               Way, way more concentration of wealth and power

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