Somewhere in the quotes between Sun Tzu and Napoleon Bonaparte is a widely known axiom:
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake
And this holds. In the latter months of WWII, allies stopped making designs on a direct hit for the fuhrer. Instead, as he so mistakenly opened both fronts and refused to quit, they allowed him to error.
In previous days, Iran has very appropriately openly mocked Donald for his errors and admitted they don’t need to do anything at all, he has it covered. They are correct, and as a citizen of this country, I can tell you I know how it must feel to rejoice when your leadership is removed, even if that usually doesn’t play out too well. But I’m also glad to see that we might get a long road to reacquiring sovereignty if the bombs don’t fly, following the German example.
Today, though, for the first time in since I can remember, I had an intuition which was hopeful: one that I don’t quite trust nor can I discard.
Billionaires have poured an absolute fortune into AI. Unthinkable fortunes. I believe the argument that this isn’t going to work, the internet was the same kind of money loser and we’ll probably see negative effects like monopolization.
But this isn’t like the internet, the AI are much more apt at creating issues. Lying to people in a way they want to hear, omitting details oft left omitted even when relevant because of compression, hallucination, whatever.
But billionaires are self-interested, greedy people by actualization. They don’t spend money on things they don’t believe in and boy have they already spent.
So here’s the thought:
I really hope they strongly utilize their new AI. Let them.