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It's one thing to be wrong, it happens to all of us, but quite an other to literally believe the opposite of the truth and be so smug, superior and self-righteous about it.
I do wonder what the survival rate of a 5x boosted, sun, dietary fat and colesterol avoiding, queer, terminally online, city dwelling mainstream following sheep that's cutting itself over climate change anxiety has to be but it can't be good. I am sorry, we tried to warn you but you like self-important suffering more than knowing the truth.
Let says we had, globally, the political will to "ban" AI. How would that even work in practical terms? Are we going to control the production and distribution of GPUs? Is that going to work better or worse than controlling nuclear proliferation given that there are billions of processors already out there?
Let's start with the biggest one which is that measures (let's say regulations) aimed at A (let's say megacorps) have their intended effect on A and most significantly on A.
In reality, the most influential and profitable companies will always have an easier way through whatever you throw at the sector then smaller, less profitable companies. The megacorps may even welcome / shape the regulation such that it harms their competitors that don't happen to have 30 lawyers on the payroll anyways.
Centralization is what socialism /is/ minus your dreams about some lofty goals that have never been achieved.
> He has nothing to do with socialism
What you do trumps what you call yourself or what wiki calls you.
> I've lived in a communist economy without noticing.
Not full communist but there are significant socialist components in the western economies, usually the sectors that don't work, and yeah, it's not really to your credit that you somehow failed to notice that education, healthcare, military and so on aren't capitalist.
Central banking is, at least since the bailouts, full on monetary communism. It's infuriating to me that people just refuse to learn the first thing about this system.
> I must have missed the proletarian expropriation somehow.
You clearly haven't been following the news from the Netherlands.
> Jokes aside, it's interesting how people like to call the current system socialist when it doesn't work, capitalist when it does.
When socialism doesn't work, capitalism get's the blame. Actually it's even worse than that, capitalism is just a blanket label for anything bad, regardless of the underlying dynamics.
I didn't say anything about a conspiracy or even forethought. It's simple incentives and power dynamics. Imagine Lagarde or Powell saying "oops, we shouldn't have printed a gazillion billion dollars, after all so please fire me and Paul Krugman and all the other state-aligned Neo-Keynesians and put Peter Schiff in charge to dismantle the ECB/FED and replace it with free market money". Absurd. Much easier to opportunistically try to pivot this into more state control on the back of inflamed public opinion.
No, of course it's "greed and "gouging", so that when the price of eggs goes up more the state can finally put it's boot on the neck of small/medium businesses and farmers to the cheers of the public.
You are being divided and conquered.
This is the Soviet Union playbook to a T, except they would always blame "wreckers" or reactionaries.
Unfortunately, people have an attention span for politics of about two weeks so they always keep falling for this.
Overall, I'd say we are running into too many "unkowns". We don't know our own cognition works which makes all arguments along the lines of "LLMs are just .." moot. We don't even really know how GPT (and others) do what they do and so all arguments along the lines of "LLMs won't be able to ... " are similarly moot.
I'm not really taking a position except to say that most arguments I see most people making are moot. So, nobody, and me least of all, has a clue about how all of this might shake out.
Right now, GPT 4 would earn a top 10% SAT score, implying that it can give very high quality answers on a range of scholarly topic. This output is basically free.
Nobody that's beholden to even mild economic pressures is going to pay for an expensively constructed 100% solution if they can have the 99% solution for free.