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It's a worthy concern in spirit. In practice the difficulty is that specific envisioned scenarios break down in relatively straightforward ways. Humans appreci
by jonahbenton 2y ago
It's a worthy concern in spirit. In practice the difficulty is that specific envisioned scenarios break down in relatively straightforward ways.
Humans appreciate and value human engagement and also humans, while we are the species most able to process complexity, are still not very good at it.
It is true that automation taking previously human-performed functions will continue, and also that automation will enable humans- the same, sometimes, different ones other times- to create new roles and functions that never existed before.
And no one really is able to mentally model those impacts with any true facility because things get really complex real fast.
But humans really do appreciate and value the presence and interactions with other humans, and at the end of the day those interactions will serve as guardrails against the complete en- and bull-shittification that AI promises to accelerate.
Examine your own life and your own interactions and deepen your own understanding of what you value, and use that understanding to enhance your mental model of what is to come.
- atleastoptimal 2y ago> But humans really do appreciate and value the presence and interactions with other humans, and at the end of the day those interactions will serve as guardrails against the complete en- and bull-shittification that AI promises to accelerate. What I'm worried about is that people may value the interests of a super-persuasive AI more than other humans'. How many humans have fallen victim to cult leaders? How many humans believe in Q-Anon? Q-Anon and stuff like that prove that purely through memetic engineering millions of people can be subverted with respect to their natural interests. How far could a 100T parameter model get with that specific goal?