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Another big one is climate change. Ask the ASI how to solve that, and it's just going to say make a huge push for more renewables like solar, and strongly disin
by gary_0 22d ago
Another big one is climate change. Ask the ASI how to solve that, and it's just going to say make a huge push for more renewables like solar, and strongly disincentivize GHG emissions. We already knew we had to do that. But the people in charge of the economy don't wanna.
- unsungNovelty 22d agoExactly. It's not about us NOT having the knowledge, understanding or capability to solve the issues that we have. We just don't want to do the right thing. That doesn't get fixed even if we invent time machines.
- busyant 22d ago> We already knew we had to do that. But the people in charge of the economy don't wanna. I've often heard it said that <big corporations> often use consulting firms to recommend unpopular decisions they were already planning to make, thereby offloading the culpability to the consulting firm. Maybe the LLMs are going to be the ultimate "consulting firm" for our societal issues. I say this mostly tongue-in-cheek, but we're already offloading a lot of lower-level responsibilities (e.g., "write my email") onto these AIs.
- Nevermark 22d ago> <big corporations> often use consulting firms Large organizations also offload decision making when they don't have a clue, and simply want to point to some action taken. The answer doesn't even matter, they just don't want to be responsible for something, or waste their own time making something (that other stakeholders care about) a real priority. People downplay the value of consultants, but they have many uses!