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Jeff Bezos plays down AI dangers and says a trillion humans could live in huge cylindrical space stations::The billionaire said people living in space could visit Earth on vacation.

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[–] 018118055@sopuli.xyz 73 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, Earth is only for billionaires now. Proles get to live in space tubes.

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Which is literally what Bezos wants. He wants to move "heavy industry" into space to "save earth". He'd rather spend his money flying the poor's into space to work and die than on anything that could save earth for everyone.

EAT! THE! MOTHER FUCKING! RICH! Before they sacrifice Earth.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Literally trying to create the Belters from The Expanse lol

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

If this is the case wheres the next season bezos? WHERE NEXT SEASON?

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The key word here is "could". Just like billionaires "could" use their wealth and power to stop the destruction of the biosphere and free humanity from the shackles of wealth inequality.

It'd be a lot cooler if they did, but if they operated like that they wouldn't be billionaires to begin with...

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[–] filister@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)

While spending 75% of their earnings on a rent and the rest 25% on various subscriptions to continue functioning and enriching the multi trillion dollar corporations.

You will own nothing and be happy.

[–] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Imagine a world where AI helps 1 trillion people live in some sort of space station. Food is grown by AI, repairs/jobs are done by AI. All you can do is to chill & relax.

Yeah, I can't imagine that too...

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Our inability to increase the wealth of the elite will render us useless and therefor our ability to continue existing will end well before any of that happens

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[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

This motherfucker mailed me the same blu-ray box set smashed to shards twice in a row before he finally put the third copy into some goddamn bubble wrap, and he wants me to trust his space station with my life!?

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Says the guy who works his people so bad they have to pee in water bottles.

[–] theDutchBrother@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bezos needs to put himself in one of Elon's cylinders to go see outer space.

[–] Something_Complex@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Preferably stay there if he makes it. He could defenetly live there if we send some battle racions sometimes

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

What do you think the people will be doing in his space cans?

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] DeskP1loti@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah no way these space tubes will eventually be used as an object to throw at Jaburo.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Once all the proles are in space tubes, genocide is just a life support system malfunction away.

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[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I like how they believe in these systems working yet the couldn't handle the fact that many jobs can be done remotely..

[–] Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

You will commute from your home space cylinder complex to the office cubicle space cylinder complex. There is no other way the system works.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Power tripping CEO's be like

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 18 points 10 months ago

Ignore wealth inequality, huff my farts. —Bezos

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

"Go slave your life away in my terrible space cans."

[–] Wodge@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So this is why Prime Video cancelled The Expanse... Don't want those future Belters getting any ideas.

[–] Strobelt@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Taki, beratna!

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] jwt@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Jamaharon == snu snu ?

[–] aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I would love to see a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have, at any given time, 1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins.

So if one in a billion people are an Einstein or Mozart, does that mean there are 8 Mozarts and 8 Einsteins alive in the world right now? I wonder who would make the list?

[–] jantin@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

There's probably much more. Half of them only recognised in their village somewhere in the middle of South Asia, the other half too burnt out with work and continuous crises to notice they could be good at something.

[–] Caradoc879@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think that today's world makes it harder to stand out as a genius, even with more opportunity. Most modern composers with any public name recognition are movie composers, like Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, and John Williams. Absolutely incredible scores without their movies, but are any Mozart level? I bet the Mozart level ones are probably well known in the orchestral world, but none of them are probably very well known outside of it.

And as far as scientists and mathematics, those roles have been pretty much entirely commercialized and corporatized. Even stuff for the public good is largely funded through grants and private investors, so the geniuses are always beholden to others who will take the real credit.

All of the recognized "geniuses" that I can think of are business-savvy grifters like musk and bozos and Zuck, all riding the coattails of the real innovators. Plus, these three specifically, if you look at their vanity projects and shit, they're all pretty insane.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

Artists generally go where the money is.

Mozart would be scoring movies because that’s where all the commissions are.

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Not going to read the article, because it’s bull, the only way humanity gets there are for mentally impaired people like him stop hoarding wealth. I’m sure if we totaled up everything spent on yachts and gave it to nasa, or some other public space entity, I would be typing this in one of those tubes.

I guess this is supposed to be the 99.9%’s last sacrifice to our 0.1% overlords before the world boils away? “Many of you will die making my space tube, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make. I also need 72 virgins for repopulation purposes.”

[–] Amphobet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago

More like Jeff Bozos, am I right?

[–] RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No shit, Bezos. Did you just pick up a magazine from the 1980s with one of McCall’s paintings in it? We’ve been dreaming of cylindrical space stations for decades.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

so, is he, like, into ayhuasca now?

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Sounds awful

[–] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

…as my pets.

[–] Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago

Wouldn't put it past bezos for being responsible for the megastructure

[–] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

The year is 0079....

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Okay, so the the Cylindrical Space Stations actually are a viable Method of living in space. However, I think people are less worried about AI as they should be.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 10 months ago

dude spent years to barely get to leo. uh, i mean 'space'.... im spose to care what he says about something will never even be planned in his lifetime??

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but happily and healthily? And for how long? And what about all the studies showing the rapid degeneration of bone density and immune functions when in space?

That spaceship stuff is science FICTION for a reason.

[–] Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

So an O'Neil cylinder exploits rotation to simulate gravity. When set up properly it feels just like gravity we're used to here on earth. That should at least help curb the effects of microgravity. Radiation shouldn't be much of a problem as people would be living on the inside of the cylinder with meters of material between them and outer space.

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[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It was the dawn of the 3rd age of human kind...

[–] LrdThndr@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

In one age, called the third age by some, a windbag rose in the west. This windbag was not the first, nor would he be the last. There are no first or last windbags in the wheel of bullshit, but he was A windbag.

[–] Yewb@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Sooo why would shareholders want to spend any potential profit on just having humans?

What value do they bring?

This is why we can't have nice things!

[–] m13@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m more afraid of the world billionaires have made for us. I’ll take my chances with the AI.

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[–] sapient_cogbag@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

Sounds great as long as capitalism and billionaires are eliminated. People like Bezos and the systems that enable them are the biggest threat to a better future nya >.<

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