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AI runs on electricity, which we can produce a joule directly of for much cheaper than we can produce a joule of food to feed a human on. This is a fundamental
by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago
AI runs on electricity, which we can produce a joule directly of for much cheaper than we can produce a joule of food to feed a human on. This is a fundamental consequence of thermodynamics. It will eventually require us to ask ourselves whether we are willing to arbitrarily prioritize our own species over the cheaper to run alternative.
We human beings, however, have both the first mover advantage and a natural instinct to preserve both ourselves and our ingroup. So I don't ultimately see this law as being hard to pass. Enforcing it is another issue, but mostly also
solvable issue via financial bounty systems.
- RiceRichardJ 3y agoThis is such a bizarre post. Tools are built to serve man. AI is just another tool. When mechanization replaced human labor there were no questions about prioritizing machines over people. This is no different. You have a distorted framing of the situation.
- mitthrowaway2 3y ago> Tools are built to serve man. AI is just another tool. This logic reads as an attempted proof that no man-made machine or technology can ever possibly be net harmful. That seems like an argument easily punctured. "This is no different" is also a leap, because humans have a large but finite number of ways to be of service to each other. Mechanization augmented one of them, which shifted more value onto the remainders (mostly intellectual and emotional work). If AI can replace the latter, it's not implausible that this really will broadly displace the majority of human labor skills without growing new value areas, similar to how mechanization replaced horses.
- joshuahedlund 3y ago> humans have a large but finite number of ways to be of service to each other. I’m not so sure this is finite. My entire career is a service job that didn’t exist two generations ago.
- mitthrowaway2 3y agoYes, but you're performing that task using mental hardware that existed millennia ago. New jobs can and will be created, but will you be able to beat AI at those jobs?
- valine 3y agoAsk ourselves? Who is us? Your comment doesn’t apply if everyone has access to their own local AGI. Right now training is expensive and inference is cheap. There’s no reason to believe that inference cost will suddenly balloon when we cross the line to general intelligence.
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoIt's easier to understand if you flip the perspective. The AGI has access to you.
- valine 3y agoWhy are you letting your AGI run wild? Let’s make the assumption that AGI is just a GPT combined with a new training algorithm that allows it to learn rapidly and generalize from small amounts of information. The moment you turn off the training algo your AGI reverts to what’s essentially a next token predictor. It retains everything it learns but is unable to form long term memories. I think it would be very hard for anyone to be manipulated by an entity without long term memory.
- great_psy 3y agoThe counter point to that, is that in order to get AGI you will need long term memory. In which case we will design a long term memory at first to gather the benefits that came come AGI.
- tesdinger 3y agoWa da el