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Can anyone try to mitigate? Here I go: Mitigating the risk of extinction from very few corporations owning the entire global economy should be a global priorit
by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Can anyone try to mitigate? Here I go:
Mitigating the risk of extinction from very few corporations owning the entire global economy should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
Just to take an example from something inconsequential: the perfume industry. Despite the thousands of brands out there, there are in fact only 5 or so main synthetic aromatics manufacturers [1]. We, however this we is, were unable to stop this consolidation, this "Big Smell". To think we, again this we, will be able to stop the few companies which will fight to capture the hundreds of trillions waiting to be unleashed through statistical learning and synthetic agents is just ridiculous.
[1] Givaudan, International Flavors and Fragrances, Firmenich, Takasago, Symrise, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume#:~:text=The%20majority%20of%20the%20world%27s%20synthetic%20aromatics%20are%20created%20by%20relatively%20few%20companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume#:~:text=The%20majority...>