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		qwertox on Dec 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Predictions for 2025? Bigger harm than "20% of your economy is busy throwing ordnance at someone else". That comment was focusing on the economy, not on the deaths. Regarding AI, it could lead to solutions to the problems we've been creating through the industrialization.

II2II on Dec 23, 2024 [–]

Russia is no stranger to the relationship between the economy and death. Both wars and economic mismanagement have led to famine in Russia. As for AI, we have no proof that it will work out for the benefit of humanity. Even if we did have such proof, it would also depend upon people heeding its advice.

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