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2026-08-03 08:34 UTC
*Other* billionaires are cynics who think that bosses can be sold defective worker-replacing chatbots because they're credulous suckers for that pitch, the same way they believe that desperate young men are suckers for Joe Rogan's useless and/or dangerous supplements and peptides:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/supplemental-income/#andrew-tate-gwyneth-paltrow
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-08-03 08:35
Billionaire AI true believers and billionaire AI cynics make for a powerful coalition. The roadblocks that might discourage the first group are easily hurdled by the second, and vice-versa. You don't have to believe AI works to believe it can be sold, and you don't have to be motivated by the sales opportunity to believe that AI is about to become god. 17/