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If you liked this you might also like Age of Em by Robin Hanson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Em https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Em "Train
by okasaki 3y ago
If you liked this you might also like Age of Em by Robin Hanson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Em https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Em
"Train an em to do some job and copy it a million times: an army of workers is at your disposal. When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will displace humans in most jobs. In this new economic era, the world economy may double in size every few weeks."
Unfortunately it seems both Hanson and qntm have been proven incorrect. Our overlords will be bootstrapped from reddit and wikipedia rather than scanned brains.
- Tyr42 3y agoI bounced hard off of Age of Em. It is a bit dry.
- slotrans 3y agoHanson thinks brain emulation will be real. In this, he is extremely incorrect. To the best of my understanding, "Lena" is written as a warning that we should not WANT brain emulation.
- gattr 3y agoBut as soon as you can run an open-source model privately on your workstation, laptop, eventually a phone - common man's position might get somewhat improved.
- stcredzero 3y agoWould it improve in relative terms to those entities who can run 1000's and millions of such agents? And what if that disparity gets exponentially steeper as time goes on?
- stcredzero 3y agoWhen they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will displace humans in most jobs. When they can be used for most military purposes, something deeply fundamental about human political organization will have been completely disrupted.