DD4ME
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I was living in Memphis when Fred started FedEx and the company started badly and he was seeking investors to help keep FedEx running. He made some people very wealthy with this move
How is it going to benefit me and other poor people like me?...I just see it as something the powerful will use to enslave the world.There were people in 1991 saying this new "information highway" was dumb. There were people in 1949 saying television was dumb.
I think AI is going to change everything. It's clunky now, but so were automobiles when they got their start.
I think it has a lot of downsides and that it also has a lot of upsides. As the great economist Thomas Sowell once observed: "There are no solutions; only tradeoffs."How is it going to benefit me and other poor people like me?...I just see it as something the powerful will use to enslave the world.
If you can't see that being the likely end result...you are blind.
I say we l destroy it...if we do not while we have the chance....we are all screwed.I think it has a lot of downsides and that it also has a lot of upsides. As the great economist Thomas Sowell once observed: "There are no solutions; only tradeoffs."
Believe me, even as a college professor I'm worried about what it's doing -- not just to my students, but to my profession. I'm not sure it won't turn out to be all for the worse. But it is coming whether we like it or not, and we have to find ways to adapt.