alt Hacker NewsTheir behaviors feel so detached and alien to me. Here are my hypotheses:
- They love AI and are so self-absorbed that they struggle to think of other people's perspectives. They only view it through their own lens and are oblivious to it. So, to them, others' opinions should mirror theirs, which is why it doesn't register for them.
- They know of the impacts their ideas will have, but think that the positives will somehow eventually trickle down to the commoners and the negatives will be minimized or only affect people that 'deserve it'.
- They genuinely despise young people and this is just a socially acceptable way of expressing their hatred - they understand everything.
Which one of the three do you think it is? Or are there other reasons?
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If I had to guess, I'd say it's a non-zero, but double-digit percentage of each of those, depending on the person.
you could have stopped with AI makes them rich. Why cares about anyone else.
>Their behaviors feel so detached and alien to me.
Because they are. Extreme wealth is literally a brain disease. It is physically impossible to remain a normal empathetic human being with that level of detachment from reality. Back when things were 10x, or 100x difference, there was still some amount of reality that just couldn't be abstracted away from you having to deal with. But the modern day reality of >1000x disparity has completely removed that, and they are more or less living as demigods to us in comparison.
It’s just a completely different class + being an exec requires certain personal traits. These two combine to whatever we see nowadays. You can call it detachments or whatever, but to be a successful exec you basically have to be a big asshole and a giant owbua.
Basically they believe whatever they did is righteous in a religious way, and how can you not see it? These types of thoughts.
There is no middle ground.