[alfalfasprout]

Not sure why this is being downvoted. It's spot on. You see folks like Dario et al. raising the alarm bells about what they claim is coming... while working as hard as they can to bring that gloomy future to fruition.

No one in power is going to help unless there's money in it.

[thatguy0900]

You can also see all of these people building survival bunkers.

[iwontberude]

According to Trump, "If it was up to Stephen [Miller], there would only be 100 million people in this country — and all of them would look like him."

[lbrito]

Its being downvoted because HN has a very active billionaire-techbro-fanbase.

Also who's this Dario?

[mapontosevenths]

It's being downvoted because it's a ridiculous premise. "The Elites" are human too. This attitude is nonsensical and child-like. Nobody is out here trying to round up the hippies and force them to live in some kind of pods to be harvested for their nutrients or whatever.

This technology, like every prior technology, will cause some people to lose their jobs and some new jobs to be created. This will annoy people who have to learn new skill instead of coasting until retirement as they planned.

It is no different than the buggy whip manufacturers being annoyed at Henry Ford. They were right that it was bad for their industry, but wrong about it being the death of... well all the million things they claimed it would be the death of.

[iwontberude]

It's because people rub shoulders with tech billionaires and they seem normal enough (e.g. kind to wait staff, friends and family). The billionaires, like anyone, protect their immediate relationships to insulate the air of normality and good health they experience personally. Those people who interact with billionaires then bristle at our dissonant point of view when we point at the externalities. Externalities that have been hand waved in the name of modernity.

Sycophancy is for more than just LLMs.

[tyg13]

Presumably Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic.