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I mean, sure, but that's not to be blamed on ML-anything. It's explicitly the human problem, because against all odds, it turns out that we have been the paperclip optimizers all along. Yeah, it can go awry, but so far I don't see the problem. And while I appreciate that certain people will actually suffer for the fact that they get rationalized away, I'd rather superfluous workers get to live on a hypothetical monthly allowance (huh, wonder if we will get THAT right) and do whatever than not allow, say, quadriplegics and the other many disabled people around us to finally tap into their creativity and churn out art, speech, even experience a motor-sensory immediacy they have long ago lost any appreciation for. The benefits so massively, so drastically outweigh the negatives, starting with more fulfilling artistic creation (at any granularity you want, people pretend like it's only text-to-picture or nothing at all, which is such a silly misunderstanding of what we will enable ourselves to do), round-the-clock therapy, tutoring, mindfulness instruction and help... you name it. Some foul fields and workplaces (yeah, it's not the AI revolution, it's all of humanity and their history with being pricks towards humanity itself that is "rotten to the core") will have to be demolished and cauterized before it can get better, but it's going to still be an overwhelming net positive. Of course, that is if it/we manage to actually amputate the gangrenous limbs of capitalism and bad incentives, bad workplace culture, atrocious treatment of fellow humans - just name it, chances are we have been doing it so, so very wrong. I reserve skepticism, it's a huge gamble regardless. But just in case people are wondering, we're already beyond the point where this is just merely handy, at this stage, a Hail Mary is pretty much our only option... and there won't be another one like this here "rotten" ML-revolution. |