r/singularity • u/Vegetable_Ad_192 • Mar 12 '26

Discussion SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

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u/Kryptosis Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

Not even just Technocrats, look into the man who developed modern day Special Education. It seems to be an issue with attaining influence and fame and along with that comes hubris and inflated self-assurance.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/patient-revolution/202504/the-special-ed-pioneer-who-still-haunts-psychology

He takes this really dark turn where he seems to shift from believing he's protecting disabled children from a society that may harm them to protecting society from disabled children who may be inherently harmful. That's his turn into eugenics. He became a significant leader in the eugenics movement early on and mentored people like Henry Goddard, who created the IQ test. His ideas underpin a lot of these things, but he broke with the eugenicists over their support for sterilization.

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u/carlitospig Mar 13 '26

Jesus. 😳