> if we don't do something NOW

We are doing something now. We're making it so the AI does it all better, so we don't have to do it anymore. Gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet, but it's going to be a delicious fucking omelet when it's ready. I don't understand why people are pushing back so hard on making the world a better place. I personally can't wait until it's clankers all the way down.

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wk_end 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Whether you agree or not, if you seriously can’t understand why people might be existentially (or economically!) anxious about the thinking machines, you may have already outsourced too much of your thinking to them.

	▲	perching_aix 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> you may have already outsourced too much of your thinking to them i'd think that instead of just giving in and reacting with a cheap insult, highlighting the unreasonable leap in rhetoric might be a bit more persuasive. to be specific: > I don't understand why people are pushing back so hard on making the world a better place. "making the world a better place" is not what's receiving the pushback. on the contrary, kind of the whole argument is that the current developments are short sighted, and that they will leave leave the world in a worse place on the long term. and then one can agree or disagree about that, but at least then we'd not be arguing strawmans anymore, nor approaching increasingly childish insults

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idiotsecant 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, the humans who control this system will surely evenly distribute the spoils of this new revolution among the people who have no stake in it. Certainly it will not lead to a kind of hyper-poverty not seen in recent human history where near demigods and subhumans are technically the same species, but only until the AI starts working on genetics.

	▲	somenameforme 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Who controls anything? That's one reason I'm highly optimistic here. You can already performantly run frontier level models on systems with $1600 tier video cards. A couple of years ago it required supercomputing clusters. At this rate frontier tier models will be running on any plain old computer in a couple of years. If LLM's reach their potential we're speaking of access to generalizable high quality cognitive labor for something approaching $0, for everybody.
	▲	dash2 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Competition will drive down prices to zero, so we'll all be demigods.