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  • Jordan117@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    The fact that Silicon Valley interests effortlessly shrugged off the non-profit board’s attempt to hit the kill switch last year, and now are preparing to take the company commercial despite the deliberate design otherwise, becomes much more interesting when you consider the theory that corporations are a form of artificial superintelligence.

    If the AI idealists can’t stand up to basic forces of capitalism, how do they expect to control an actually dangerous AGI?

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      You give them far too much credit to assume this specific company will ever achieve anything even close to AGI.

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          19 days ago

          If they had something better, don’t you think they’d be putting it out front and center? This is akin to all those conspiracy theorists claiming they have proof to back their claims but they just can’t show it to you right now but it’s definitely coming at some indeterminate time in the future.

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      If the AI idealists can’t stand up to basic forces of capitalism, how do they expect to control an actually dangerous AGI?

      My guess is they don’t expect to. I guess that that is one of the reasons they seem to not care about out of control climate change; burn it all down before it all literally burns down.

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        Yeah, the people leading the “AGI will save us” are the same as super church pastors.
        They don’t believe it, they just want their bank account limitless before they go into oblivion.

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      19 days ago

      I kinda liked the text you linked. Here’s a quote.

      There are also structural changes that can be made to corporations to realign their values system with human welfare. Corporate charters can be amended to optimize for a triple bottom line of social, environmental, and financial outcomes (the so-called “triple Ps” of people, planet, and profit.)

      This reminds me of what we are trying to do where I live. The hard thing is this requires a lot of work and it doesn’t just go against the corporate agenda; it goes against the normal lifestyle most everyone around us lives. It has made me want to quit sometimes.

      But then again, true life is in true living among real people and real things, not in daydreaming of better days.