If it means we can take psychedelics and hallucinate with them, I’m in as long as it fully takes over technology and I can hide in the woods
It can’t be dumber than the people currently in charge.
Wanna bet?
Ill take the bet.
Check out the book/audiobook Arc of A Scythe, it’s about this.
There was a study posted yesterday about llms ability to run long term. The majority of the models failed to run a vending machine business.
Yeah but 50 years ago they couldn’t run a toaster
Within 200 years it’s likely either the world will be turned into paperclips, or AI will be powerful and aligned enough that it can do everything we want it to. It will initially be in the hands of the rich, but once 80% of people are unemployed and starving, there’ll be a revolution to put the AIs in the hands and service of the people and we’ll have a post scarcity socialist utopia.
Wither way suffering is reduced (you can’t suffer if you’re a paperclip), so I’m optimistic.
