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This reads like it could be used to reason against the industrial revolution or the first computer revolution or any other significant advance in human history.

• zer0tonin 3y ago
  James Watt didn't ask for 10% of the global GDP
  • educaysean 3y ago
    I assume his objection was regarding the AI being a "zero-sum game", whatever that was supposed to convey
    • windexh8er 3y ago
      The industrial revolution wasn't a leech on resources for little to no value. Most of the energy and diverged efforts by companies globally is currently being wasted on efforts to try and figure out how to profit from this "revolution". This isn't a revolution, this currently looks like a heist of epic proportions.
  • ben_w 3y ago
    If he had, it would've been a bargain for the impact of the industrial revolution. Watt couldn't have asked, his engines specifically weren't enough of a difference by themselves even though the revolution as a whole was, and I strongly suspect this is also going to be true for any single AI developer; however a $7T investment in many unrelated chip factories owned by different people and invested over a decade, is something I can believe happening.
• windexh8er 3y ago
  If the industrial revolution wasted the majority of its input for low value / unneeded output it wouldn't have been a revolution. Please enlighten me on how LLMs have revolutionized the world and then feel free to share how much energy, money and time have been sunk thus far with little to show as a tangible increase in the lives of a global human population.