This probably isn’t a novel thought; but it kinda makes sense that tech billionaire types see slop as the product and don’t see a reason to slow down, because they’ve long since thought of the majority of people, the other 99%, as a sort of slop already.
!["It is perfectly ridiculous," he then admonishes,
"to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a
chance at all, but a certainty."
And then comes the paragraph that I had initially recalled in connection with acute AI anxieties:
[The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things-praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jgmxlsqaj6inwjqx3eowix6i/bafkreihnw6gnkhokaerb5xcvfwx2jkvtc7uhqgyrg6kspclcu3jkqmxzoe)
