Hello all! I've been reading LessWrong consistently for a little while now, primarily on AI topics, and figured it would be worth making an account so that I can contribute to the excellent discussion space that exists here in the future.
I'm a 27yo tech worker, and while I am currently unemployed, I have prior experience working at companies like Meta and observing how attitudes towards AI have been developing in that particular environment. I've always been considered by my peers to be quite bright (high school valedictorian, near-perfect SATs, blah blah)... (read more)
You're making the mistake of taking two bads of different degrees (wealth inequality now vs. wealth inequality in hyper-capital-concentrated AGI world) and indicating that they're the same because they're both bad. While I agree that wealth inequality is a big problem right now, it has the potential to get much worse, and I find comments like this unhelpful in furthering productive discussion. Ignoring differences of degree is a major error in rational thought.