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bildramer t1_j2494g3 wrote

Reply to comment by glass_superman in How the concept: Banality of evil developed by Hanna Arendt can be applied to AI Ethics in order to understand the unintentional behaviour of machines that are intelligent but not conscious. by AndreasRaaskov

Saying "we are being ruled by evil billionaires" when people like Pol Pot exist is kind of an exaggeration, don't you think?

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glass_superman t1_j249j7b wrote

Pol Por rules no one, he's dead.

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ting_bu_dong t1_j24djqb wrote

They said that people like him exist. The large majority of people like him are ruling no one, obviously.

Whether any current leaders/rulers/however-you-want-to-call-them are like Pol Pot is debatable... But, no, not so much.

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glass_superman t1_j24nq3v wrote

Koch Bros are not as deeply depraved as a fascist leader but they have a much wider breadth of influence. They are more dangerous than Pol Pot because what they lack in depth, they more than make up for in breadth.

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threedecisions t1_j24k2q6 wrote

I've heard that there are dogs that will eat until they die from their stomach exploding if they are supplied with a limitless amount of food. People are not so different.

It's not so much that these billionaires are necessarily especially evil as individuals, but their power and limitless greed leads them to evil outcomes. Like, Eichmann's portrayal in the article, he was just doing his job without regard for the moral consequences.

Though when you hear about Facebook's role in the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, it does seem as though Mark Zuckerberg is a psychopath. He seems to have little regard for the lives of people affected by his product.

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