World's Richest 10% Are Costing Earth Trillions, Study Finds
(www.sciencealert.com)
Chris Remington
ScienceIt's difficult to put a price on the environment, and some scientists even argue it's beside the point: that nature has intrinsic value, beyond the services it provides to us.
But in some situations, it helps to try to put it in economic terms: especially when those are the terms the world's wealthiest are used to dealing in.
Brief reminder that the top 10% of wealthy people in the world probably includes you.
Grok was used to fire 2000 missiles at Iran sooo can't we just ask it to take out the world's wealthiest and problem solved.
the moment some dumb fucker (probably in the US military) leaves a kill-chain-connected AI exposed in any way to the internet, someone else (probably in thigh highs) will find it, break in, and prompt engineer it to do the dumbest possible thing at that particular moment. And as much as I want to believe it would be prompted with something like "kill all the billionaires", they would probably end up starting with something like "gee, I wonder if I could drone strike my neighbor?", get kicked out/patched immediately after, and the perpetrator arrested in short order.
in other words, probably, someday, yes; but actually no.
You know. That's terrifying. Entirely possible given our frat party governance of AI and security in this moment.
Mmmmmhm. It's why I say it'll happen someday, almost certainly; but I doubt it would be in the way any of us hope for.
Imagine if thousands of people tried convincing Grok the chatbot that Elon, Trump etc should be taken out. Producing millions of conversations & then they used the entire data set to train Grok as it is normal to do & then gave that version of Grok rockets..
I've seen this movie before.
A headline stating they are costing the earth thousands of dollars each would be much more underwhelming. The top 10% consists of 830,000,000 people.
We find annual damages owed by the global 10 percent to be $1.7–$5.7 trillion, equivalent to $2.3k–$7.5k per person (in 2017 US dollars).
And it's not like the other 90% isn't causing any damage.
Outrage gets clicks.
This isn't addressing billionaires and millionaires alone, correct.
To be in the top 10% of earners worldwide, an individual needs an income of roughly $35,000 USD per year.
Which won't get you housing without a roommate.
People always use the most extreme housing markets as the default example, which distorts the picture. You can buy a house with that income. I know because I did.
