Comment by Teever

My comments on this subject aren't some sort of justification for any particular course of action; they're more a disapproval of the course of action being made by people people who have more dollars than sense.

As a general rule preserving historical artifacts for continued future analysis and appreciation by people who have yet to be born is a noble cause that's considered worthy in and of itself without the need to justify it. We're talking about the richest group of people who have ever existed with the means to preserve them but decline to do so and instead act like the Taliban blowing up statues of Buddha.

I think this is intuitive to most people. If a prerequisite for the birth of AGI was that a humanoid robot had to sit down in the Louvre and eat every single painting there with a knife and fork while occasionally stopping to wipe away historical detritus with the Mona Lisa that it's wearing as a bib people would by and large express a visceral and justifiable outrage.

The people who are doing this know how this looks so they're trying to do it all behind closed doors, through cut-outs and intermediaries.