166 points

It’s probably cocaine

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Cokeium

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cokaina… todays topic, slavery

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Hyping up the stock price.

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We already have that abundance. It’s just waiting to be liberated.

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It’s grifting, pure and simple. All those things may be possible but Sam Altman is spewing this line of bullshit to keep the venture capital flowing into his company.

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Exactly. As a SW engineer, I don’t know how far we are from an AGI exactly, but I am confident enough Altman and openAi have no idea where to even start.

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As a SW engineer

I read that and immediately thought of you working in a Star Wars hangar, fixing rebel ships

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That sounds like the general consensus from most SW engineers.

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As a software engineer that works in AI, the “breakthrough” we’ve made is in proving that LLM’s can perform well at scale, and that hallucinations aren’t as big a problem as initially thought. Most tech companies didn’t do what OpenAI did because hallucinations are brand-damaging, whereas OpenAI didn’t give a fuck. In the next few years, all existing AI systems will be through LLM’s, and probably as good at ChatGPT.

We might make more progress now that researchers and academics see the value in LLM’s, but my weakly held opinion is that it’s mostly surrounded by hype.

We’re nowhere near what most would call AGI, although to be blunt, I don’t think the average person on here could truly tell you what that looks like without disagreeing with AI researchers.

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and probably as good at ChatGPT

We are so fucked.

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In Venice he never claims that he will be the one to do these things, at least in that tweet he doesn’t claim to be the one that’s going to do those things.

I’m not sure what the line about creating new realities means. I assume he means VR and not that AI is going to give us the ability to access hyperspace or something.

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The current state of capitalism will ensure the second line never sees the light of day

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deregulated capitalism is a curse on society

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Said looking at one regulated to almost mercantilist levels.

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Are you stupid?

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We can already create enough abondance that no human starves, sleep outside or can’t affotd medical treatment. Still look at the world.

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Why bother to let humans live if they are not profitable enough for the megacorps? That almost sounds like work.

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No no, they’re desperately looking for that, because gating infinite abundance away from the plebs will be amazing for quarterly profits and entertainment! Think of all the reality shows you can make by pitting the poor against themselves!

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Abundance is already here, tons of food are destroyed and thrown out when they accidentally make too much while people are starving, there’s no money in abundance, it’s the artificial lack of supply that keeps prices high and profits soaring.

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Food isn’t the only resource in the equation. Most of the resources are limited and even diminishing.

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I agree but I think their point was more along the lines of “Even if we have complete abundance of everything (as in, the capabilities to produce anything in abundance), capitalists will continue to create artificial lack of supply to continue profiting off of the workers. For example, look at the food abundance we have”

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capitalists will continue to create artificial lack of supply

I think it’s not that, but just:

capitalists won’t spend their money to create logistical chains for free.

“Collect and distribute supply” won’t do itself, someone should do that. And noone will do that for free

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Have you read Ishmael?

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Approximately 1/3 of all food produced is wasted.

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