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The way AI can improve lives is if we finally start to share wealth amongst the people more. I don’t know if we will be able to do this politically, but it really is the only way society will survive.
If people are no longer required for production, we have to change how we allocate resources. It can’t be based on personal production anymore.
How do you define a “feed engineered to be addictive”? How do you distinguish between addictive and just good quality?
Doesn't this give the government the unchecked ability to detain whoever they want indefinitely, then?
They could just demand someone turn over evidence that doesn't exist, or that they know the person doesn't know about?
Well, the ‘intentionality’ is of the form of LLM creators wanting to maximize user engagement, and using engagement as the training goal.
The ‘dark patterns’ we see in other places aren’t intentional in the sense that the people behind them want to intentionally do harm to their customers, they are intentional in the sense that the people behind them have an outcome they want and follow whichever methods they find to get them that outcome.
Social media feeds have a ‘dark pattern’ to promote content that makes people angry, but the social media companies don’t have an intention to make people angry. They want people to use their site more, and they program their algorithms to promote content that has been demonstrated to drive more engagement. It is an emergent property that promoting content that has generated engagement ends up promoting anger inducing content.
This is why I am always skeptical when anyone writes that they are the first to do something… the added caveat is always, “that we know of”
They could also take your traditional search and chat history, feed it into an LLM, and ask it the same questions. Once you start doing that for one person... you could just feed everyone's chat and search history into an LLM, and ask it "who is the most dangerous" or whatever you want to ask.
Its just another version of the classic computing problem "computers might not make a new thing possible, but it makes it possible to do an old thing at a scale that fundamentally changes the way it works"
This is the same as universal surveillance... sure, anyone could have followed you in public and watched where you are going, but if you record everything, now you can do it for everyone at any time. That changes how it works.