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by johnea 804 days ago
All of this analysis is based on inaccurate assumptions. Primarily that some rules of supply and demand will dictate how the tech is deployed.

Let's look at history. The industrial revolution was predicted to create copious leasure time for the working class. How did that turn out?

The steam engine, the cotton gin, the automobile, the computer...

Every single technological advance that was predicted to improve the lives of the working class due to massive increases in productivity, was used instead to almost exclusivly bennefit ownership.

This is exactly what will happen with current LLM tech (please don't call the bullshit generators "AI")

If the tech cannot be deployed so as to exclusively bennefit ownership, it won't be deployed at all...