Other than the tech fascists, does anyone love billionaires right now? Reality is indeed holding them back. And their dreams of total domination are materials s

Other than the tech fascists, does anyone love billionaires right now? Reality is indeed holding them back. And their dreams of total domination are materials science and resource-limited - no self reproducing robots anytime soon. So with that, we can rule out extinction at the hands of the machines 100% leaving only machines somehow accessories to near ELEs humans could trigger today and could have triggered for decades. And at that point, Scary Potter and his friends need to STFU. So scaling down to an AI takeover in the next decade, paradoxically, the idiotic pronouncements by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei that AI is coming for your jobs and that they are afraid of their own creations is not the sort of thing that leads to an AI takeover, it leads to regulations and bans. What would would make such an AI takeover viable in the next decade would be a magnificent seemingly benevolent AGI that raised living standards and spread happiness as it enchanted and delighted its way to everyone happily ceding control to the greatest thing ever. Does that remotely sound like the near future to you? In the words of Ted Chiang "most fears about AI are best understood as fears about capitalism" and that aligns with what's going on right now. So let's skip the intermediary surrogate and attack the worst bits of late stage capitalism, mmkay?