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0 pointsbbor2y ago0 comments

We have three options, IMO:

1. As a species decide to never build another LLM, ever.

2. Change the path of society from the unequal, capitalist one it’s taken the last 2-300 years.

3. Give up

I know which I believe in :). Do you disagree?

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Finish #2 first, or else people with access to more money and infrastructure will use LLMs to increase inequality even further.

pbhjpbhj2y ago

The problem with 2 is that the people in power, and with immense wealth, remain there because of capitalism. They have the political power, and the resources, to enact the change ... but they also lose the most (unless you count altruism as gain, which of it were true the World would be so different).

We could structure things so that LLM, and the generalised AIs to come, benefit the whole of society ... but we know that those with the power to make that happen want only to widen the poverty gap.

bborOP2y ago

Yes but the common man has won before! There has never been a perfect revolution/paradigm shift (personally anti utopia-through-intense-bloodshed, so hesitant to use the former term alone), but there have been many, all of which were against the wishes of those in power.

Plus, if these AIs are enough to change everything, that kinda implies that we've developed flexible, reliable AGI systems. In such a world, everything changes - maybe the calculus of The Powerful Few vs. The Oppressed Masses changes in too! It might even change in our favor, if we're terribly lucky...

pbhjpbhj2y ago

I like your optimism, but AGI owned by the elite to my mind will just be another opportunity to collect rent from the masses, and reduce wages.

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0 pointsbbor2y ago0 comments

We have three options, IMO:

1. As a species decide to never build another LLM, ever.

2. Change the path of society from the unequal, capitalist one it’s taken the last 2-300 years.

3. Give up

I know which I believe in :). Do you disagree?

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sp3322y ago

Finish #2 first, or else people with access to more money and infrastructure will use LLMs to increase inequality even further.

pbhjpbhj2y ago

We could structure things so that LLM, and the generalised AIs to come, benefit the whole of society ... but we know that those with the power to make that happen want only to widen the poverty gap.

bborOP2y ago

pbhjpbhj2y ago

I like your optimism, but AGI owned by the elite to my mind will just be another opportunity to collect rent from the masses, and reduce wages.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse