The billionaire said people living in space could visit Earth on vacation.
Jeff Bezos plays down AI dangers and says a trillion humans could live in huge cylindrical space stations::The billionaire said people living in space could visit Earth on vacation.
Which is literally what Bezos wants. He wants to move “heavy industry” into space to “save earth”. He’d rather spend his money flying the poor’s into space to work and die than on anything that could save earth for everyone.
EAT! THE! MOTHER FUCKING! RICH! Before they sacrifice Earth.
The key word here is “could”. Just like billionaires “could” use their wealth and power to stop the destruction of the biosphere and free humanity from the shackles of wealth inequality.
It’d be a lot cooler if they did, but if they operated like that they wouldn’t be billionaires to begin with…
I would love to see a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have, at any given time, 1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins.
So if one in a billion people are an Einstein or Mozart, does that mean there are 8 Mozarts and 8 Einsteins alive in the world right now? I wonder who would make the list?
There’s probably much more. Half of them only recognised in their village somewhere in the middle of South Asia, the other half too burnt out with work and continuous crises to notice they could be good at something.
I think that today’s world makes it harder to stand out as a genius, even with more opportunity. Most modern composers with any public name recognition are movie composers, like Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, and John Williams. Absolutely incredible scores without their movies, but are any Mozart level? I bet the Mozart level ones are probably well known in the orchestral world, but none of them are probably very well known outside of it.
And as far as scientists and mathematics, those roles have been pretty much entirely commercialized and corporatized. Even stuff for the public good is largely funded through grants and private investors, so the geniuses are always beholden to others who will take the real credit.
All of the recognized “geniuses” that I can think of are business-savvy grifters like musk and bozos and Zuck, all riding the coattails of the real innovators. Plus, these three specifically, if you look at their vanity projects and shit, they’re all pretty insane.
This motherfucker mailed me the same blu-ray box set smashed to shards twice in a row before he finally put the third copy into some goddamn bubble wrap, and he wants me to trust his space station with my life!?
While spending 75% of their earnings on a rent and the rest 25% on various subscriptions to continue functioning and enriching the multi trillion dollar corporations.
In one age, called the third age by some, a windbag rose in the west. This windbag was not the first, nor would he be the last. There are no first or last windbags in the wheel of bullshit, but he was A windbag.
No shit, Bezos. Did you just pick up a magazine from the 1980s with one of McCall’s paintings in it? We’ve been dreaming of cylindrical space stations for decades.
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The year is 0079…
So this is why Prime Video cancelled The Expanse… Don’t want those future Belters getting any ideas.
Taki, beratna!
Sorry, Earth is only for billionaires now. Proles get to live in space tubes.
Which is literally what Bezos wants. He wants to move “heavy industry” into space to “save earth”. He’d rather spend his money flying the poor’s into space to work and die than on anything that could save earth for everyone.
EAT! THE! MOTHER FUCKING! RICH! Before they sacrifice Earth.
The key word here is “could”. Just like billionaires “could” use their wealth and power to stop the destruction of the biosphere and free humanity from the shackles of wealth inequality.
It’d be a lot cooler if they did, but if they operated like that they wouldn’t be billionaires to begin with…
Billionaires: exists
Humanity: “Be a lot cooler if you didn’t”
Literally trying to create the Belters from The Expanse lol
If this is the case wheres the next season bezos? WHERE NEXT SEASON?
Wouldn’t put it past bezos for being responsible for the megastructure
So if one in a billion people are an Einstein or Mozart, does that mean there are 8 Mozarts and 8 Einsteins alive in the world right now? I wonder who would make the list?
There’s probably much more. Half of them only recognised in their village somewhere in the middle of South Asia, the other half too burnt out with work and continuous crises to notice they could be good at something.
I think that today’s world makes it harder to stand out as a genius, even with more opportunity. Most modern composers with any public name recognition are movie composers, like Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, and John Williams. Absolutely incredible scores without their movies, but are any Mozart level? I bet the Mozart level ones are probably well known in the orchestral world, but none of them are probably very well known outside of it.
And as far as scientists and mathematics, those roles have been pretty much entirely commercialized and corporatized. Even stuff for the public good is largely funded through grants and private investors, so the geniuses are always beholden to others who will take the real credit.
All of the recognized “geniuses” that I can think of are business-savvy grifters like musk and bozos and Zuck, all riding the coattails of the real innovators. Plus, these three specifically, if you look at their vanity projects and shit, they’re all pretty insane.
Artists generally go where the money is.
Mozart would be scoring movies because that’s where all the commissions are.
Sounds awful
This motherfucker mailed me the same blu-ray box set smashed to shards twice in a row before he finally put the third copy into some goddamn bubble wrap, and he wants me to trust his space station with my life!?
While spending 75% of their earnings on a rent and the rest 25% on various subscriptions to continue functioning and enriching the multi trillion dollar corporations.
You will own nothing and be happy.
It was the dawn of the 3rd age of human kind…
In one age, called the third age by some, a windbag rose in the west. This windbag was not the first, nor would he be the last. There are no first or last windbags in the wheel of bullshit, but he was A windbag.
I’m more afraid of the world billionaires have made for us. I’ll take my chances with the AI.
Yes, because it’s people like you and me developing AI …
Says the guy who works his people so bad they have to pee in water bottles.
Bezos needs to put himself in one of Elon’s cylinders to go see outer space.
Preferably stay there if he makes it. He could defenetly live there if we send some battle racions sometimes
“Go slave your life away in my terrible space cans.”
No shit, Bezos. Did you just pick up a magazine from the 1980s with one of McCall’s paintings in it? We’ve been dreaming of cylindrical space stations for decades.