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Re:The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in t... by JohnFen on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @04:37PM (#35619710)
Well, if you expand the definition of "slave" enough, I suppose so. But in reality, I have plenty of choice and freedom.

If the only way I can live, though, is to feed my ideas to a master AI, then I really am a slave. I would argue that such a life is not worth the effort.

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Re:The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in t... by __MatrixMan__ on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @08:06AM (#35627114)
When you had to put your ideas on paper to be paid for them, did you feel like a slave to paper?

Do you feel like a slave to hypertext and markdown?

Publishing as contributions towards weights in a statistical model isn't significantly different. It's just easier to query.

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Re:The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in t... by JohnFen on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:22AM (#35629284)
No, for two main reasons.

First, the purpose of my effort was not to enrich the paper, or enrich the web server.

Second, because those things are my tools, not my competition. Paper is not going to make it so that there is no work available, nor are webservers. AI (as proponents expect it to be) will replace the majority of people's jobs.

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