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The only solution is to rapidly scale these up so that they can disrupt every aspect of everyone's life until we all decide to throw our hands up and decide it'

by sharts 3y ago

The only solution is to rapidly scale these up so that they can disrupt every aspect of everyone's life until we all decide to throw our hands up and decide it's time for a new social construct. I'm surprised someone hasn't replace politicians with an LLM. Imagine not having to pay their salaries when ChatGPT can send "thoughts and prayers" to Maui over Twitter 24/7.

bpye 3y ago
This was a plot point in Avenue 5. The office of the other president.
slg 3y ago
>until we all decide to throw our hands up and decide it's time for a new social construct. In my opinion this is the most optimistic of the realistic possible outcomes. In the past when automation put a factory worker out of a job, they were just told to go back to school or "learn to code" which isn't actually a solution for most people. These LLMs disproportionately impact people further up the socioeconomic ladder than prior waves of automation. Maybe our uneven society means that this wave of distribution of a more powerful group of people will be more likely to cause an actual change to how we organize society.
tsunamifury 3y ago
I am absurdly and instinctually confident that LLM personas will replace at least the public face of politicians almost instantly. The problem is the back end work.
AtlasBarfed 3y ago
"The privileged will risk absolute destruction over the surrender of any advantage"
over_bridge 3y ago
Politicians are just a perfect role to disrupt. Problem is of course they are a monopoly so can't be competed with and are protected by law/constitution so can't be changed directly. Their whole job is to 'represent' their constituents. A LLM can poll the sentiments of the people far more effectively than they can. I'm sure it could be programmed to accept bribes too to weigh rich people's opinions higher. I'd love to see votes done by 100 different LLMs instead of Senators (a hyperbolic, non literal statement but interesting as a thought experiment I hope) Politicians should still propose new and altered legislation but actually voting, and being informed to vote, could be massively improved.
- mistermann 3y ago
  https://www.reellifewisdom.com/proactive_i_ve_always_believed_that_the_world_is_what_we_make_of_it https://www.reellifewisdom.com/proactive_i_ve_always_believe...
zarzavat 3y ago
It’s not a new social construct. It’s a very old one: a thin layer of rich people, and a large number of poor people fighting to survive because they don’t have anything to contribute beyond their own manual labour. Head out of the developed world and you can see this type of society everywhere. This meme of AI -> upheaval -> basic income utopia has got to die. It’s wishful thinking. It’s “clean coal” for programmers.
- satvikpendem 3y ago
  What do you suggest instead? Because without UBI or redistribution of profit when everything is automated, I don't see any other solution.
falloutx 3y ago
Is this satire? If you think politicians can be replaced, then you must be dreaming quite hard sir. They are running the show.

by sharts 3y ago

bpye 3y ago

This was a plot point in Avenue 5. The office of the other president.

slg 3y ago

>until we all decide to throw our hands up and decide it's time for a new social construct. In my opinion this is the most optimistic of the realistic possible outcomes. In the past when automation put a factory worker out of a job, they were just told to go back to school or "learn to code" which isn't actually a solution for most people. These LLMs disproportionately impact people further up the socioeconomic ladder than prior waves of automation. Maybe our uneven society means that this wave of distribution of a more powerful group of people will be more likely to cause an actual change to how we organize society.

tsunamifury 3y ago

I am absurdly and instinctually confident that LLM personas will replace at least the public face of politicians almost instantly. The problem is the back end work.

AtlasBarfed 3y ago

"The privileged will risk absolute destruction over the surrender of any advantage"

over_bridge 3y ago

Politicians are just a perfect role to disrupt. Problem is of course they are a monopoly so can't be competed with and are protected by law/constitution so can't be changed directly. Their whole job is to 'represent' their constituents. A LLM can poll the sentiments of the people far more effectively than they can. I'm sure it could be programmed to accept bribes too to weigh rich people's opinions higher. I'd love to see votes done by 100 different LLMs instead of Senators (a hyperbolic, non literal statement but interesting as a thought experiment I hope) Politicians should still propose new and altered legislation but actually voting, and being informed to vote, could be massively improved.

mistermann 3y ago
https://www.reellifewisdom.com/proactive_i_ve_always_believed_that_the_world_is_what_we_make_of_it https://www.reellifewisdom.com/proactive_i_ve_always_believe...

zarzavat 3y ago

It’s not a new social construct. It’s a very old one: a thin layer of rich people, and a large number of poor people fighting to survive because they don’t have anything to contribute beyond their own manual labour. Head out of the developed world and you can see this type of society everywhere. This meme of AI -> upheaval -> basic income utopia has got to die. It’s wishful thinking. It’s “clean coal” for programmers.

satvikpendem 3y ago
What do you suggest instead? Because without UBI or redistribution of profit when everything is automated, I don't see any other solution.

falloutx 3y ago

Is this satire? If you think politicians can be replaced, then you must be dreaming quite hard sir. They are running the show.