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The difference is that LLM has a lot of use cases where it can be enormously productive. Blockchain has never had such a use case.
by rqtwteye 4y ago
The difference is that LLM has a lot of use cases where it can be enormously productive. Blockchain has never had such a use case.
- civilitty 4y agoNonsense! The blockchain enabled lots of use cases that weren’t accessible to the average person before. For example: buying drugs, getting fake passports, hiring hitmen, and selling drugs.
- Avicebron 4y agobuying stadiums in Florida, gambling imaginary money, moving money to your dad to pay for your inevitable legal bills, buying league skins, the list is endless.
- postsantum 4y agoThe only thing that really worried me was effective altruism. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of a changing world for the better binge
- Avicebron 4y agoI think anyone familiar with effective altruism's roots in utilitarianism was rightly immediately concerned about it, especially how it currently seems to be manifested. Never forget Jeremy Bentham proposed the Panopticon.
- Applejinx 4y agoWe can't stop here. This is changing world for the better country!
- zirgs 4y agoHas anyone actually hired a real hitman with Bitcoin? In pretty much all cases that I've heard of, the hitman turned out to be either a cop or a scammer.
- loa_in_ 4y agoYou make a good point that, blockchain or not, ultimately the problem is not technological in nature. Bitcoin facilitates drugs and hitmen as much as ability to mail someone a letter with bank account details attached (account with money). As usual, the solution is to make the activity not worth the risk by posing as either party.
- rqtwteye 4y agoNonsense! I have run a meth lab in my basement long before blockchain.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoWhile that is true, LLMs are (like blockchains) difficult to understand for laypeople, and this is (as it was with blockchains) used to compel gullible investors with FOMO to invest in some highly questionable enterprises that make no goddamn sense.
- Workaccount2 4y agoChatGPT passes the "my mom can use it" test with flying colors. It's extremely accessible.
- bamboozled 4y ago“Mum why did you sell our family home at half the price it’s worth ?!?!, ChatGPT told me it was a good price son!!!”
- marginalia_nu 4y agoRight, now try to explain to her how it works.
- teucris 4y agoDoes the average person generally understand how the internet works? The economy? Their own muscles? We understand things enough to know how to use them. Yes, this means the unknown parts can be used to scam people, but that’s true with anything.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoWe did see a lot of that scam artistry with regards to the Internet. That was the Dot Com bubble. The two necessary components seem to be novelty/hype and inscrutable inner workings.
- Tostino 4y ago"It's an overpowered autocomplete that was trained to have a conversation rather than completing your thoughts."
- atoav 4y ago> LLM has a lot of use cases where it can be enormously productive The great chance of LLMs is of course assistive technology, where human actors and LLMs collaborate to do tasks. I am afraid however that what will shape the impact of LLMs on humanity much more is a different thing: Throught history there was always a certain number of people a dictator had to be at good terms with in order to stay in power. My fear is, that this number will become smaller, because it will be much easier to give the realistic impression that you have the support. Existing concepts of reality and truth will definitly be completely and utterly destroyed by LLMs, and even actual, real information will be tainted by the fact that it could be fake – we are already seeing today on a smaller scale what living in such a world feels like if we look how societies in a post-truth environment operate. My prediction (and I'd love to be wrong on that) is that the negative use of LLMs will outweigh positive use significantly, because it favours use cases where you don't have to care about correctness.
- jvm___ 4y agoExisting concepts of reality and truth will definitly be completely and utterly destroyed by LLMs, and even actual, real information will be tainted by the fact that it could be fake – we are already seeing today on a smaller scale what living in such a world feels like if we look how societies in a post-truth environment operate. <2050> Did Donald Trump supporters dye their hair orange in support? Yes they did... (news article supporting the idea, complete with photos and video (with audio)) I almost fear for any history that has been digitized. History is written by the victors, and AI is looking like a victor at this point.