I can't understand how AI makes financial sense, when we're paying the majority of the population to not work, and forcing young people to spend decades in school, just to get an entry-level job, at the same time as we are also taking on the largest debt pile evah to ramp up data centers and train models, so that we can all not-work.
Fiat economics. It isn't even wrong.
they are just creating a patch for the consequences of a patch, for the consequences of a patch, for actions of a small group of psychotic megalomaniacs.
eventually there will be no patient, only bandages, and at that point, the system collapses.
Reminds me of Darth Vader - "more machine than man now, twisted and evil."
The plan isn't for the majority not having to work. It's to get rid of the majority in the short term, bleed them dry on their way out and enslave the remaining people to keep the system going and do the work that can't be replaced by a machine.
Maybe we will build cathedrals again. When we have nothing to do. Maybe we'll build better in the physical world.
I like to think this, but they're taking over that world, too. It's just a bit slower, as robots are harder than laptops.
But, yeah, there's a point where you won't have to force people to work, to get money, as they look for work, to not go crazy with boredom and inactivity and sexual frustration.
It’s objectively evil.
Inanimate objects have no soul to condemn, so they can't be evil. They have even less agency than insects.
But the human impulses behind a lot of this stuff is schizophrenic and sometimes reeks of someone's Dark Plans.
Yeah, economics can’t be separated from ethics because without 2 human beings interacting with each other, you cannot have an economy.
Aristole and Aquinas knew economics grows out of ethics, one lesson we shouldn’t have forgotten so easily.
But I’m trying to spread the word with my book, returning first things to the proper place
Ethics before Economics
Yet, I still wonder if the models imprint the soul of the builders...... meaning if the trainers/datasets are double-minded, dishonest, duplicitous, self righteous, etc. the LLM develops athe schizophrenic personality we observe. .... The Big Data Cult just want to feed them more and more. garbage in, garbage out. ///
side note. Makes me wonder how a model trained only on virtues and classics would behave.
Keynesian economics and its consequences for the human race.
Also, the model runners are deeply unprofitable. It’s not clear how they’ll ever become so either. They burn cash at an unbelievable rate.
Perhaps they sort out how to make them efficient, but I’m not sure, since compute such an important part of it’s performance.
