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Let the investors burn their ill-gotten gains on fairy tales. It's the most efficient form of wealth distribution we have available to us in society.
by glitchc 3y ago
Let the investors burn their ill-gotten gains on fairy tales. It's the most efficient form of wealth distribution we have available to us in society.
- EA-3167 3y agoExcept the wealth is just transferred to NVIDIA and a bunch of electricity providers.
- nonrandomstring 3y agoNot at all. This isn't a zero sum game and there's no poetic justice in letting fools and their money be easily parted. Even if the 7T never yielded a single "AI" chip, we'd all be much worse-off for that failure. For example, the global cost of insecure software is 2T per year. Wrt to lost opportunity cost, 7T would fund a ground-up secure open microprocessor and operating system (provably free from back-doors) to completely replace Android, iOS, Windows etc, with a new-deal style offering to the entire global technology market. It would pay for itself in 4 years. Not so "glamourous" I know, but let's start with the problems we have, not imaginary ones we haven't even created yet.
- glitchc 3y agoNot sure I buy this argument. Typically when society aims for moon-shots, the intermediate discoveries improve the quality of life, sometimes dramatically. It's an unknown unknown. Only exploration can turn it into a known unknown. Maybe the AI chip fails, but we discover a more potent source of energy that's cleaner than petroleum. I personally don't think Mr. Altman is capable of such moon-shots, but am supportive of moon-shots in general.
- nonrandomstring 3y agoI'm okay with moonshot logic. But why not just bet the farm on fusion in the first place?