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everyone talks about the alignment problem, not nearly enough about the accountability problem
by 1penny42cents 1y ago
everyone talks about the alignment problem, not nearly enough about the accountability problem
- Analemma_ 1y agoWhat problem? The whole point of shareholder capitalism is to diffuse accountability across so many people that it ceases to exist: the employee points to management, management points to executives, executives point to the board, the board points to the shareholders, the shareholders are index funds managed by robots so "nobody" is to blame. The final phase of the administrative state works much the same way. Viewed through that lens, LLMs and their total lack of accountability are a perfect match for the modern-day business; that's probably part of why so many executives are hell-bent on putting them everywhere as quickly as possible.
- haswell 1y ago> What problem? I think you answered this with the rest of your comment.
- evanmoran 1y agoThis is intentional and is called a Rhetorical Question: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question
- haswell 1y agoI’m familiar with the concept of a rhetorical question. It was not obvious to me that this was the author’s intent.
- munificent 1y agoIf I've learned anything from watching politics the past decade, it's that many important people in power consider lack of accountability a solution, not a problem.