HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>timnitGebru</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Technofeudalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technofeudalists</span></a> and the perceived <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> threat incongruence</p><p>(2/n) </p><p>... importantly, there is, in my view, no discrepancy on a strategic (intent) level:</p><p>a) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>'s primary goal is, as you know, to transform <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanity</span></a> into a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MultiplanetarySpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MultiplanetarySpecies</span></a>. Colonizing the closest possible habitable planet (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Terraforming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Terraforming</span></a>) is indispensable for this lifty aim. That will cost the global economy billions of dollars for many years, that will then be missing for feeding the poor...</p>