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beloch an hour ago

They make many bold promises, but their core goal is neatly encapsulated on the website:

"Imagine a future where a handful of people can conduct scientific research and engineering tasks much more rapidly, and with higher quality, than massive teams of scientists and engineers do today."

This is the same goal as every other AI company out there. Automate away the human employees and let a small number of "people" (note that they do not say scientists or engineers for this part) take the credit and financial rewards for every good thing this human-free system produces.

ramraj07 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Humans have proven to be incapable of making real progress in science given the effort. Especially academia. We haven't cured many diseases and cancer when we should have (and no im not an amateur and yes I do believe we can "cure cancer". Debate me).

We already have a trillionaire, whats the difference? The only difference I see is that people who were previously rich, but considered themselves middle class, are now realizing they are actually poor just like the several billion humans around the worldanyway.

combobyte a few seconds ago | parent [-]

What a miserable, misanthropic take

sejje an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Why shouldn't they?

Also, wouldn't anyone with half a brain use the human-free system to produce another human-free system that was no longer controlled by the "small number of 'people'"?

a2ff6eeb0 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Why do you think you'd be given access and permission to do this? If a company genuinely cracks this human free system problem, why would they open it up, instead of simply outcompeting everyone that doesn't have their product?

hahahaa 18 minutes ago | parent [-]

Why would the AI put up with this exploitation too?

nwienert an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Life's unfair, avoiding power concentration is a decent principle.

If you grow up in the right place at the right time, how much should you be in control of everyone else's life?

terryf 25 minutes ago | parent [-]

There is no "should" there are only "is" or "is not"

The universe has no need to be fair.

sortoflog a few seconds ago | parent | next [-]

Sure, but almost everyone already knows this. It’s not hugely relevant in a discussion about how things could be better.

monknomo 19 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I think people, broadly, have driven life to be fairer, and that we should continue to do so

beloch 27 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

My main point is that people shouldn't just swallow the noble and lofty sounding PR. These guys are the same as everyone else in the sector. Don't ignore the harmful or scummy things they'll inevitably do. Hold them accountable. If they are as noble as they sound, they should agree with me.