Disassembling power structures, including unwarranted ones, is rarely an event that doesn't result in some amount of bloodshed, because, as it turns out, power

Disassembling power structures, including unwarranted ones, is rarely an event that doesn't result in some amount of bloodshed, because, as it turns out, power structures like having power and will do a whole lot of evil things to keep control of that power. I fully, whole throatedly endorse the destruction of settler colonial capitalism; I believe it's a blight on our planet, on our species, on our collective psyche and is the best candidate thing presently in our world that qualifies as a Great Filter, but I also know fully well that process is going to get a lot of people killed and I fully support approaching it cautiously for that reason. > The alternative is that the incompant power structure instead benefits from AGI Also, tangentially related, in what way is the current power structure not slated to benefit from AGI? That's why OpenAI and company are getting literally all of the money the collected hyperscaler club can throw at them to make it. That's why it's worth however-many-billions it's up to by now.