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by nicce 815 days ago
> It's crazy to see how much is coming out of Meta's R&D alone.

They have the money...

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and data
and (rumours say) engineers who will bail if Meta doesn’t let them open source
Hundreds of thousands of H100s…
And a dystopian vision for the future that can make profitable use of the above ...
On the plus side, people make up the organization and when they eventually grow fed up with the dystopia, they leave with their acquired knowledge and make their own thing. So dystopias aren't stable in the long term.
That seems to rely on the assumption that human input is required to keep the dystopia going. Maybe I watched too much sci-fi, but the more pessimistic view is that the AI dystopia will be self-sustaining and couldn't be overcome without the concerted use of force by humans. But we humans aren't that good in even agreeing on common goals, let alone exerting continuous effort to achieve them. And most likely, by the time we start to even think of organizing, the AI dystopia will be conducting effective psychological warfare (using social media bots etc.) to pit us against each other even more.
The Ones Who Walk Away From O-Meta-s
A very apt reference to the story

The ones who walk away from Omelas

Dunno how pasting a link works but here it is:

https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf

So the dystopia spreads out... Metastasis
> So dystopias aren't stable in the long term.

Unless they think to hire new people.

For some people this is a stable dystopia.