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by vbezhenar 250 days ago
Cash is just paper. You can't eat paper.
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Time is money. the investment of time and resources spent on AI could be spent producing food or healing people.

Not that I think we should, but the "Cash is just paper" attitude makes no sense. If it's just paper, how is OpenAI training AI using just paper?

Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods and Services
You can't eat AI, either.

Yet another hidden benefit of a human workforce, that AI can't match.

You mean like, at least we can eat the human workforce?
Soylent Green is people!
It’s more recyclable than old gpus and out of date models
It seems to me that you're suggesting cannablism, but maybe I'm reading you wrong?
It does seem like a rather modest proposal.