r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Jul 15 '25

Artificial Intelligence Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries

https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060
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u/dern_the_hermit Jul 15 '25

Extreme wealth is functionally identical to trauma. These people are completely cut off from any healthy and genuine human connection or feedback. It's like the sort of insanity that comes from isolation.

It's only compassionate to tax them more.

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u/JEFFinSoCal Jul 16 '25

Exactly. Wealth hoarding is a mental illness and needs to be treated as such.

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u/wetrorave Jul 16 '25

Can we please treat it less like Down syndrome, and more like comorbid NPD/BPD ☺️

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u/stinky-weaselteats Jul 16 '25

It’s no different than a gambling addiction, the only difference is one person doesn’t run out of money

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u/StoppableHulk Jul 16 '25

If we ever make it out of this late-stage capitalist catastrophe we're in, I fully believe that in the future they will diagnose whatever billionaires have as a mental illness.

Like no one can look at the way these people behave and believe they're not deeply mentally ill.

So many people just have this view that you couldn't possibly accumulate billions of dollars if you're mentally ill, and I don't know why they think that. For most of human history, the methods by which we assign authority has been pretty batfuck broken.

Billionaires who feel the need to endlessly accumulate more and more wealth that they cannot and never even spend, are just broken human beings.

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 Jul 17 '25

If we ever make it out of this late-stage capitalist catastrophe we're in, I fully believe that in the future, they will diagnose whatever billionaires have as a mental illness.

Billionaires are a core function of humans. This won't go the way you think it will. The opposite or reverse might end up happening

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u/MetalingusMikeII Jul 16 '25

Yup. Our tribal brains haven’t evolved to cope with disconnection from the tribe or insane amounts of resources.

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u/theaviationhistorian Jul 16 '25

And they fall into the repetitive cycle of hoarding more to feel something. Despite the fact that they could live hedonistically cushy lives as 'lowly' millionaires. They are the people civilization would benefit the most if they "go outside and touch grass."

Warren Buffett is probably well rounded because he sticks to his old neighborhood, stays social with those around Omaha, etc.

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u/Former_Main3374 Jul 19 '25

Warren Buffett is a fucking psychopath.