I was looking back through my Aberree theme to find something. Didn’t find it, but ran across this 2017 piece. Nothing has changed since then.
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Actually Musk doesn’t believe his negative comments about AI; he’s just talking the price down to corner the market. Nevertheless, he’s famous for talking the price down.
One of the 1955 writers in Aberree got it amazingly right.
Plenty of sci-fi writers and others have been worrying about robots for 200 years, and the worry was starting to grow serious in the ’50s. Most writers dismissed the worry. Not James Pinkham.
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Few of us would conceive of our house becoming master of our destiny — but what of an automatic dwelling which performed countless functions for us automatically? Such a device could only attain mastery if those living within it and using it came to depend only upon its program of automatic functions and did no thinking or action for themselves.
Seeing houses as the first major step in labor-saving machinery was a rare insight, and seeing that houses would become the point of enslavement was a unique prophecy.
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I’d forgotten that Elon was already ‘talking his book’ on AI back then. He dislikes AI companies that aren’t owned by Elon, and talks it down in order to buy those companies cheaply. Demons never pay. Demons always steal.
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