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Sam Altman convincing the ultra-rich that AI is the next best place to put their too much money after they've run out of other places to put it is not anywhere

Sam Altman convincing the ultra-rich that AI is the next best place to put their too much money after they've run out of other places to put it is not anywhere near the spirit of what he meant by people "working together." He's saying that while in a dysfunctional society, AI will only magnify the dysfunction. Fighting climate change is a means towards the end of having a livable environment, developing AI is a means towards the end of having a better society. But, whereas fixing the environment would be its own automatic benefit, having AGI would not automatically improve the world. Something as seemingly innocuous and positive as social networking made a lot of things worse.

zombiwoof 2y ago
This rings true. The internet exposed the dysfunctional wealth inequality (look at all the billionaires it created) , social networks exposed the dysfunctional human communications and manipulation (ie Jan 6 was a love fest) , and now AI will just take both of those to the next level. Extreme wealth, extreme poverty and mass manipulation of people If anybody things AI will cure cancer or something grandiose like that they are propping up their stock portfolio. AI will be the harbinger of the last wave of human growth before we all end up killing each other over the price of eggs or whatever else AI regurgitation machine decides
JumpinJack_Cash 2y ago
> > developing AI is a means towards the end of having a better society A better society and a better world in general encompasses beating climate change thanks to AI. Many smart people are also moving from climate change research to AI because the latter is seen as something meta that can help with everything and thus higher grade or worth pursuing more than individual problems like solving climate change or defeating cancer. We'll see if they are right, they were wrong before and specifically during the long AI winter

zombiwoof 2y ago

This rings true. The internet exposed the dysfunctional wealth inequality (look at all the billionaires it created) , social networks exposed the dysfunctional human communications and manipulation (ie Jan 6 was a love fest) , and now AI will just take both of those to the next level. Extreme wealth, extreme poverty and mass manipulation of people If anybody things AI will cure cancer or something grandiose like that they are propping up their stock portfolio. AI will be the harbinger of the last wave of human growth before we all end up killing each other over the price of eggs or whatever else AI regurgitation machine decides

JumpinJack_Cash 2y ago

> > developing AI is a means towards the end of having a better society A better society and a better world in general encompasses beating climate change thanks to AI. Many smart people are also moving from climate change research to AI because the latter is seen as something meta that can help with everything and thus higher grade or worth pursuing more than individual problems like solving climate change or defeating cancer. We'll see if they are right, they were wrong before and specifically during the long AI winter