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Fascinating. Instead of banning money or fixing prices (did they try that in Russia?) we retain free markets but now with a new layer of government intervention
by truculation 9y ago
Fascinating. Instead of banning money or fixing prices (did they try that in Russia?) we retain free markets but now with a new layer of government intervention. Not intervention by social spending or regulation but by buying and selling according to the dictats of an AI. And the utility function of this AI is set according to what exactly?
My guess is it would have to be according to our values, not to specific goals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZBViI8ZaU0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZBViI8ZaU0
- crdoconnor 9y agoThe Soviet Union always had money and banking. It was just less meaningful than it is in America.
- fossuser 9y agoThis is the goal alignment problem that MIRI, FHI, and some safety groups at Open AI are working on. It seems like a hard problem to get right (with bad consequences if not aligned super intelligence happens first).
- zokier 9y ago> but now with a new layer of government intervention As far as I can tell, the government is the least active actor in this area, so curious choice of picking it here.
- UncleEntity 9y ago> Not intervention by social spending or regulation but by buying and selling according to the dictats of an AI. Which would still run up against The Economic Calculation Problem which has constrained all central planning proposals and (probably) always will. Once they solve that then we can talk about an AI which can predict the outcomes of billions upon billions of individual decisions which are made by market actors to fulfill their wants and needs.