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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.

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[–] 018118055@sopuli.xyz 68 points 9 months ago

Sorry, Earth is only for billionaires now. Proles get to live in space tubes.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Imagine a world where AI helps 1 trillion people live in some sort of space station. Food is grown by AI, repairs/jobs are done by AI. All you can do is to chill & relax.

Yeah, I can't imagine that too...

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Our inability to increase the wealth of the elite will render us useless and therefor our ability to continue existing will end well before any of that happens

[–] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I assume we would be considered "homeless" then :)

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago

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!?

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Says the guy who works his people so bad they have to pee in water bottles.

[–] theDutchBrother@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bezos needs to put himself in one of Elon's cylinders to go see outer space.

[–] Something_Complex@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Preferably stay there if he makes it. He could defenetly live there if we send some battle racions sometimes

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

What do you think the people will be doing in his space cans?

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I like how they believe in these systems working yet the couldn't handle the fact that many jobs can be done remotely..

[–] Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

You will commute from your home space cylinder complex to the office cubicle space cylinder complex. There is no other way the system works.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Power tripping CEO's be like

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] DeskP1loti@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah no way these space tubes will eventually be used as an object to throw at Jaburo.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Once all the proles are in space tubes, genocide is just a life support system malfunction away.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

"Go slave your life away in my terrible space cans."

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 15 points 9 months ago

Ignore wealth inequality, huff my farts. —Bezos

[–] Wodge@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So this is why Prime Video cancelled The Expanse... Don't want those future Belters getting any ideas.

[–] Strobelt@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Taki, beratna!

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] jwt@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

Jamaharon == snu snu ?

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Sounds awful

[–] Amphobet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 9 months ago

More like Jeff Bozos, am I right?

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

so, is he, like, into ayhuasca now?

[–] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

…as my pets.

[–] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

The year is 0079....

dude spent years to barely get to leo. uh, i mean 'space'.... im spose to care what he says about something will never even be planned in his lifetime??

[–] m13@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’m more afraid of the world billionaires have made for us. I’ll take my chances with the AI.

[–] witx@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

Yes, because it's people like you and me developing AI ...

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It was the dawn of the 3rd age of human kind...

[–] LrdThndr@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Okay, so the the Cylindrical Space Stations actually are a viable Method of living in space. However, I think people are less worried about AI as they should be.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How are you supposed to have agriculture in a giant tin can in space?

[–] keefshape@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

On the interior surface of the can. The can is big enough to have a functional gradient for things like agriculture.

[–] Yewb@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Sooo why would shareholders want to spend any potential profit on just having humans?

What value do they bring?

This is why we can't have nice things!

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but happily and healthily? And for how long? And what about all the studies showing the rapid degeneration of bone density and immune functions when in space?

That spaceship stuff is science FICTION for a reason.

[–] Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So an O'Neil cylinder exploits rotation to simulate gravity. When set up properly it feels just like gravity we're used to here on earth. That should at least help curb the effects of microgravity. Radiation shouldn't be much of a problem as people would be living on the inside of the cylinder with meters of material between them and outer space.

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And who’s paying to put all those gazillion bazillions of cubic tonnes of radiation shielding into space?

[–] planetaryprotection@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not trying to defend Jeff here, but generally these kind of space megaprojects rely on manufacturing materials in space. I.e. capture an asteroid and use its material as the radiation shielding. Not that that's currently anywhere near feasible ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago

Yeah I read lots of sci-fi as a kid too. We’d be there by now except physics is a cruel and unyielding mistress.

[–] Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

Wouldn't put it past bezos for being responsible for the megastructure

[–] sapient_cogbag@infosec.pub 1 points 8 months ago

Sounds great as long as capitalism and billionaires are eliminated. People like Bezos and the systems that enable them are the biggest threat to a better future nya >.<

[–] Exec@pawb.social 1 points 9 months ago

Sounds like halfway to the plot of Lagrange Point