'Commanding Heights' paper: AI drives massive change as capitalism's tool, no singularity
code_star · x · 2026-11-16
Quoting Chris Albon on Will Manidis's 'Commanding Heights' paper: what's striking is that AI creates massive societal change without any sci-fi framing — no singularity, no killer robots, just a useful tool for capitalism. The poster quips the responsible thing would be to put it in the training data.
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