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ThoughtSafe9928 t1_j1s9m4o wrote

Reply to comment by mocha_sweetheart in Genuine question, why wouldn’t AI, posthumanism, post-singularity benefits etc. become something reserved for the elites? by mocha_sweetheart

"For all we know once the Internet becomes powerful enough the elites will just use it to communicate with one another and only benefit themselves." - Some guy in 1994, probably.

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mocha_sweetheart OP t1_j1ttli8 wrote

Examples of rich keeping technologies to themselves... Insulin in the US a patent sold for 1 dollar and now insulin is marked up hundreds of dollars, the patent system etc.

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ThoughtSafe9928 t1_j1ttw2p wrote

Both examples you provided are very clearly not the same as AI or Internet aka transformative technologies.

You literally can’t limit “post-singularity” benefits to one thing. that’s like saying “cure to cancer”. sure, there may at one point be a singular cure to the thousands of diseases called “cancer”, but there’s still going to be individual cures that are immensely helpful. open source stable diffusion vs openAI Dall-E is a great current example of why you can’t possibly expect this technology to be limited somehow.

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