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If you told me this was a verbatim cautionary sci-fi short story from 1953 I'd believe it.

• junofan 9mo ago
  Eh 1953 was more about what’s going to happen to the people left behind, e.g. Childhood’s End. The vast majority of people will be better off having the market-winning AI tell them what to do.
  • beedeebeedee 9mo ago
    Or how about that vast majority gets a decent education and higher standard of living so they can spend time learning and thinking on their own? You and a lot of folks seem to take for granted our unjust economy and its consequences, when we could easily change it.
    • roenxi 9mo ago
      How is that relevant? You can give whatever support you like to humans, but machine learning is doing the same thing in general cognition that it has done in every competitive game. It doesn't matter how much education the humans get - if they try to make complex decisions using their brain then, silicon will outperform them at planning to achieve desirable outcomes. Material prosperity is a desirable outcome, machines will be able to plot a better path to it than some trained monkey. The only question is how long it'll take to resolve the engineering challenges.
      • beedeebeedee 9mo ago
        That is absurd and is not supported by any facts
        • fragmede 9mo ago
          There are some facts which makes it not outside the realm of possibility. Like computers being better at chess and go and giving directions to places or doing puzzles. (The picture-on-cardboard variety.)
• Terr_ 9mo ago
  Perhaps Asimov in 1958? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power That said, I maintain there are huge qualitative differences between using a calculator versus "hey computer guess-solve this mess of inputs for me."
• Joker_vD 9mo ago
  At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel "Don't Create The Torment Nexus"!