Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened
by pbhjpbhj on Saturday April 08, 2023 @11:11AM
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>that many companies can potentially produce 10 times as many products/services and make more things that will enrich peoples' lives.
See, that worked through the 20th Century because we, in the West, had effectively unlimited materials and unlimited energy - we just had people dig it out of the ground, easy.
But now we realise that fossil fuels wouldn't last forever, both because of environmental impact and it just plain running out.
Any plan for the future that requires us to produce more in order to get out of a crisis is 100 years too late.
We need to distribute the benefit of the efficiencies, not think we can produce 10 times as much junk because we made things more efficient.
But Capitalists thrive when we create more waste, strip more non-renewables, make more pollution.
Re 2) built in sanity checks aren't too hard; yes we'll keep humans in the loop for high-cost and life critical systems for a few more years.
See, that worked through the 20th Century because we, in the West, had effectively unlimited materials and unlimited energy - we just had people dig it out of the ground, easy.
But now we realise that fossil fuels wouldn't last forever, both because of environmental impact and it just plain running out.
Any plan for the future that requires us to produce more in order to get out of a crisis is 100 years too late.
We need to distribute the benefit of the efficiencies, not think we can produce 10 times as much junk because we made things more efficient.
But Capitalists thrive when we create more waste, strip more non-renewables, make more pollution.
Re 2) built in sanity checks aren't too hard; yes we'll keep humans in the loop for high-cost and life critical systems for a few more years.