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points by hn_throwaway_99 15 hours ago | 0 comments
Not just out of touch, but downright psychopathic in my opinion. I used to greatly admire Larry Page. He seemed like a really smart, driven, level-headed guy. When the news came out that he was basically fine with AI wiping out humanity, as it would just be the natural evolution of intelligence, and to fight against that would be "speciesist", all I good think was "what a psycho".

And I really don't think I'm exaggerating Page's opinion on this, though I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.

[–] nextaccountic 13 hours ago
I'm willing to bet he's speciesist in relation to actual, existing species of other animals
[–] ctmlr 12 hours ago
Extreme wealth seems to cook people's brains.
[–] munk-a 11 hours ago
Counter point - accumulating extreme wealth seems to require a cooked brain. I genuinely believe that level headed people are unable to reach more than a few million in accumulated wealth as they'll clearly see how much more that money would benefit others compared to themselves.
[–] ethbr1 5 hours ago
Counter counter point - we've constructed a society that provides excess rewards to people with cooked brains and antisocial behavior
[–] redwood 14 hours ago
Incredible back story here if I can trust Gemini on this as that dates back to over 10 years ago when Musk accused Larry Page of being too obsessed with bringing about AI and hence co-founds OpenAI... the irony of course being that OpenAI raced ahead while Google has been conservative