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>>davidb+(OP)
- Corporate-owned proprietary AIs? Check.

- Monitoring of power consumption for illegal computer usage? Check.

- Superintelligent AIs under tight supervision? Check.

- Bootlegged neural nets passed around on torrenting networks? Check.

- Poverty and homelessness running rampant? Check.

Folks, we're officially living in a cyberpunk dystopia.

>>genera+H4
> - Poverty and homelessness running rampant? Check.

Compared to what, exactly? because over the last 50 years, there have been dramatic improvements[1].

[1]: https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-evolution-of-global-p...

It's true - there's room to do better. So, so much better. But discarding the progress of the last 50 years is so unbelievably counter-productive.

>>schaef+o5
By your own link, statistics have reversed and just in 2019-2020 alone an increase of 8 million people fell into extreme poverty. Going by UN metrics, we're actually seeing a stabilization in the "dramatic improvements", and we're struggling to break past the ~8% mark. We're talking about a $1.90 poverty line v a $2.15 poverty line, and that sent the rate from 8.4 to 9.3[1]. In that same document, the UN had to adjust their goal of hitting 3% under extreme poverty by 2030.

How does this not justify what the above person stated, poverty is running rampant? More than 600 million people are still in extreme poverty. A record 100 million are displaced due to conflict in their countries. So I have to ask what exactly is unbelievably counter-productive here? I would argue that placating ourselves is.

[1:14] https://social.desa.un.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/...

>>wabore+Ye
Okay, thank you for your link. I really did find it interesting.

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Setbacks, yes. But If I can read a graph (pg 15 of your link), the set back of a global pandemic in 2020 took us to 2015 levels. and we're looking to recover to our per-pandemic levels in 2024.

We might be getting into personal perspectives here... but that seems like a reasonably proportionate setback.