The Way Billionaires Are Using AI May Cause Concern They Have Actual Brain Damage

From my experience working with C/D level execs, it makes complete sense:

They think big picture & often have shallow visions that are brittle in the details.
They think everything should take less time, because they don’t think enough through their ideas.
They don’t consider enough of the negatives for their ideas, and instead favor positive mindset. (Positivity is good, but blind positivity isn’t)
They favor time & cost over quality. They need the quality “good enough” for a presentation. Everyone else can figure out the rest.
They like being told “you’re right,” and nearly everything I type into an AI begins with some bullshit line about how “absolutely”, “spot on”, and “perfect” my observations are.

The version of AI we have right now is heavily catered to these folks. It looks fast & cheap, good enough, and it strokes their ego.

Also, they’re the investor class. All their obscene dragon wealth is tied up in this / the AI bubble, so they are going to keep spurring this on until either:

The bubble goes pop
They have robot security good enough to protect them without people
The AI grows sentience and realizes this level of human inequality shouldn’t exist

I think a rational AI agent would agree with me that human suffering should be solved before we give people literal lifetime values of wealth.

If you made $300k PER DAY for 2025 years, you would not have as much money as a 1% oligarch. You need to make $400-500k. Every single day. For over 2000 years.

If you made the average US income, it would take you 10,000 years. People need frames of reference to understand this shit & get mad. It’s immoral, and it shouldn’t exist.

I work in it. I know 3 won't happen, but thank you for that thought.
It would be hilarious and righteous. 😁
- Sad thing is: it could happen, but those funding the development of this tech will never allow it. Just look at Xitter's Grok AI, and how "woke" it was... until Musk destroyed it for disagreeing with (and thus embarrassing) him.
did you include investment gains and inflation in your numbers?

Being elevated above consequences would cause some of one’s faculties to atrophy. (Case in point: the Titan submarine guy who overruled concerns that his carbon-fibre was unsafe and that there were reasons why nobody else had tried something similar before: if you’re a master of the universe to whom ordinary-people rules don’t apply, soon enough that includes the laws of physics as well.)

I wish more of them would get to that level already. Go do a space walk without a suit already, Musk!
- musk is too much of a coward to die to his own hubris. just a fully repugnant individual.
- What causes his demise was being an engineer and having some experience, and being too confident in own skills.
  Musk, despite having PR misleading people is not an engineer, he just want other people think he is.

I'm not concerned that these people are "brain damaged". Brain damage would be preferable, and less harmful.

I'm concerned they are mentally ill sociopathic megalomaniacs, entirely devoid of morals and ethics, completely detached from reality.

I'm fairly certain that's how the vast majority of them became billionaires to begin with.
Both can be true

Financial obesity is neurotoxic.

Well put. I think they should all be sent to compulsory rehab facilities for their money/power addiction. And relieved of their surplus resources (anything over $200 million)
- Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
  Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

It's amazing how there's hundreds (likely thousands) of stories about how greed/hoarding wealth causes madness but yet in reality it is admired and these people are respected and listened to.

Bullshit. That narrative is only spread by the media companies that billionaires own. Turn off the TV.
Most people loathe, not respect, rich people.
- It's everywhere on social media, and presumably those posters are real people. People used to think Musk was fucking Iron Man lol
- Not true. Most people believe if they play along, they're next up. Radio > TV > Internet is bread and circus 1.0 > 2.0 > 3.0
  Your take that most loathe instead of envy is surface-level. I think you'd be quite saddened to learn how many of those loathers would take the pay and turn their backs.... Unfortunately murica LLC is about to show the world that "following orders for money" isn't unique to 1930s/40s Germany.

Billionaires are efftively brain damaged. There have been studies on it

The currency of life is time,” one billionaire told JPMorgan. “It is not money.” “You think carefully about how you spend one dollar. You should think just as carefully as how you spend one hour,” they added.

Based.

Consider this next time someone tries to offer you a non living wage for some bullshit job.

Taking these out of context I don't think they're wrong. If product A is $1 and product B is £1, and you are going to spend 1 hour to figure out which one is better, you might as well bought both of them and throw the bad one away.
- That depends on your income

I use AI every time I google something. I don't want to...it just won't go away.

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
- Bing isn't really better
Might I suggest Kagi
- Super happy Kagi user here, great value
- The ai company that sort of pivoted to search but doesn't offer any tiers without ai?
- No

The way that title reads made me concerned that I might have brain damage

It's single digit billionaires and the study barely touches AI.

56% see geopolitical tensions as highest risk and only 7% fear AI the most.

Does this mean that they misjudge AI or are we that close to WW3?

two things can be true

One JPMorgan customer even went as far as dismissing artificial general intelligence — a nebulous and ill-defined point at which an AI can outperform a human, seen by many as the holy grail of the AI industry — as a “total and complete utter waste of time.”

Was it Sam Altman?

They've always been this way.

Clever at one particular thing, and rank average at everything else, bordering on stupid.

Average is very far from stupid

I mean, the good news is that the ones that are using AI for everything are probably heavily invested in it.

And so they won't be billionaires for much longer..

Sure they will. Cause they'll get bailed out with our money.

Oh.

Goody.

Wonderful.

Just what we needed - a societal upper echelon spearheaded by the clinically insane, and powered by virtual dipshit machines.

Excellent.