"There’s a saying, popularized by Fredric Jameson, that it’s
easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of
capitalism. It’s no surprise that Silicon Valley capitalists don’t want
to think about capitalism ending. What’s unexpected is that the way they
envision the world ending is through a form of unchecked capitalism,
disguised as a superintelligent AI. They have unconsciously created a
devil in their own image, a boogeyman whose excesses are precisely their
own."
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