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> AGI would give you access to millions of times more resources than you currently enjoy. So I would suggest that you have absolutely nothing to worry about on

> AGI would give you access to millions of times more resources than you currently enjoy. So I would suggest that you have absolutely nothing to worry about on the income/employment front. Pure theology

ETH_start 3y ago
I'm puzzled as to how you can characterize a description of AGI's functions as "theology." AGI represents the automation of what we would describe as human-level thought, transforming it into a mass-produced service that costs almost nothing to acquire. Consequently, the cost of any product or service that requires human labor is expected to trend toward zero. We're already witnessing this with the creation of textual and graphical content through ChatGPT. It's now possible to generate various types of text content and a wide range of graphics at the cost of 10 cents for the dozen ChatGPT API calls. And the work is completed in a few minutes, as opposed to several hours. This represents a several orders of magnitude increase in per capita productivity for these specific tasks. As AI technology advances, the scope of applications benefiting from such productivity boosts is expected to widen, which means human civilization will experience a revolutionary increase in productivity, and with it, resource abundance.
- gergo_b 3y ago
  My problem with all this is that the quality of all the generated text and graphical content is utter garbage. Quantity != quality.
  - ETH_start 3y ago
    The graphics I've produced are absolutely phenomenal IMHO. I find that that textual content depends highly on the prompt, and often does take quite a few iterations to get right. Often with text, the GPT is more of an assistant/advisor/proofreader for me, rather than a stand-alone creator of quality content. Sometimes it works really well for emails. Like for producing responses to formal communications. It can save cut the time to respond from 10 minutes to 30 seconds.

ETH_start 3y ago

I'm puzzled as to how you can characterize a description of AGI's functions as "theology." AGI represents the automation of what we would describe as human-level thought, transforming it into a mass-produced service that costs almost nothing to acquire. Consequently, the cost of any product or service that requires human labor is expected to trend toward zero. We're already witnessing this with the creation of textual and graphical content through ChatGPT. It's now possible to generate various types of text content and a wide range of graphics at the cost of 10 cents for the dozen ChatGPT API calls. And the work is completed in a few minutes, as opposed to several hours. This represents a several orders of magnitude increase in per capita productivity for these specific tasks. As AI technology advances, the scope of applications benefiting from such productivity boosts is expected to widen, which means human civilization will experience a revolutionary increase in productivity, and with it, resource abundance.

gergo_b 3y ago
My problem with all this is that the quality of all the generated text and graphical content is utter garbage. Quantity != quality.
- ETH_start 3y ago
  The graphics I've produced are absolutely phenomenal IMHO. I find that that textual content depends highly on the prompt, and often does take quite a few iterations to get right. Often with text, the GPT is more of an assistant/advisor/proofreader for me, rather than a stand-alone creator of quality content. Sometimes it works really well for emails. Like for producing responses to formal communications. It can save cut the time to respond from 10 minutes to 30 seconds.