• prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    AI is a good example. “If we don’t make the terrible AI, someone else will, so we have to make the Torment Nexus, errr, I mean AI.”

    That mode of thought is a byproduct of capitalism.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I think the Soviets and the space race with the USA would prove that the “We have to build it faster, first!” isn’t just a capitalist thing.

      Capitalism incentivizes it, absolutely. To be clear, I’m not making some “it’s human nature” argument, culture plays a huge role. Capitalist culture influences it greatly, but I think humans “racing” to achieve something before another does is outside the scope of just capitalism.