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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 72 points 11 months ago

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

[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Literally trying to create the Belters from The Expanse lol

[-] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

If this is the case wheres the next season bezos? WHERE NEXT SEASON?

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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...

[-] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Billionaires: exists

Humanity: "Be a lot cooler if you didn't"

[-] filister@lemmy.world 47 points 11 months ago

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 11 months ago

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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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 11 months ago

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

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 31 points 11 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 30 points 11 months ago

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

[-] theDutchBrother@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Something_Complex@lemmy.world 5 points 11 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 11 months ago

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

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 22 points 11 months ago
[-] DeskP1loti@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

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

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago
[-] Doorbook@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

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 11 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 11 months ago

Power tripping CEO's be like

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 18 points 11 months ago

Ignore wealth inequality, huff my farts. —Bezos

[-] Wodge@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Strobelt@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Taki, beratna!

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

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

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago
[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago
[-] jwt@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Jamaharon == snu snu ?

[-] RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Sounds awful

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

so, is he, like, into ayhuasca now?

[-] Amphobet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago

More like Jeff Bozos, am I right?

[-] Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 5 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

The year is 0079....

[-] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

…as my pets.

[-] m13@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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

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[-] deafboy@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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

[-] LrdThndr@lemmy.world 1 points 11 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.

[-] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 4 points 11 months ago

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 5 points 11 months ago

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.

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[-] Yewb@lemmy.world 4 points 11 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!

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

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 11 months ago

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

[-] keefshape@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 11 months ago

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??

[-] sapient_cogbag@infosec.pub 1 points 10 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 11 months ago

Sounds like halfway to the plot of Lagrange Point

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