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It's never been on sale, but the price HAS gone up multiple times since it was first launched in alpha.

There isn't even any risk, considering the amount of detail they've covered in the dev blogs.

Yeah I'm one of them. I was merely pointing out the inconsistency in having all this hue and cry about porn when violence is ignored

western banking system

Are you implying the rest of the world uses a different, more socially friendly banking system? For that matter, when's the last time China sent out a multi-billion dollar aid package?

1% is hardly worth calling sinister.

Yeah, it's only a few billion dollars. What's that between buddies?

semantic difference in my word choice is hardly significant enough to be worth quoting lol

It's only significant when it's in your favour, eh?

That's half my point. Why is sex such a no no, but glorified hyperviolence is perfectly acceptable?

Oh no! We're comparing credit card interest rates with country-level loans! And they're higher! Gosh! Never mind that the IMF interest rate is half of that. 🙄

the logical conclusion is foul play

Nobody but you claimed foul play, only bad intentions.

The warnings are self-serving, not the AI

If it helps, I agreed with your 1st 2 points. You may die with your dignity half intact.

“Sam Altman or Elon Musk about the “existential risk” artificial general intelligence poses to humanity”

The full quote is "UNLIKE self-serving warnings from Sam Altman or Elon Musk about the “existential risk” artificial general intelligence poses to humanity". In other words, they're actively denigrating Musk and Altman, and you've taken the quote entirely out of context, in direct opposite to the original meaning.

Cue the tankies to show up soon explaining how China had everybody's best interests at heart, and all previous examples were taken out of context.

Why does the BBC have access to secret NATO plans? Somebody needs to fall out of a window for this.

What article did you read, seeing as there's nothing from Musk in there?