ihateshadylandlords

ihateshadylandlords t1_j74ukn2 wrote

Reply to comment by ttylyl in Future of The Lower and Middle Class Post-Singularity, and Why You Should Worry. by ttylyl

What good is owning the means of production if you have no customers? Companies exist to maximize shareholder value. Owning a bunch of inventory that no one can buy doesn’t do anything for shareholders.

Also even if a company gets too powerful, they’ll just nationalize it or break it up like they did with Standard Oil.

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ihateshadylandlords t1_j73k7rb wrote

Reply to comment by ttylyl in Future of The Lower and Middle Class Post-Singularity, and Why You Should Worry. by ttylyl

You also have to consider that if the masses don’t have money to buy products, then the companies won’t have money either. If companies have no money, then they’ll go down too. Not to mention they won’t be able to buy off politicians if consumers don’t have money to buy anything.

Plus if we get to the point where we can make AGI and/or ASI, that might be used to replace executives and politicians.The elites are distanced from AI and the potential problems, but I don’t think they’re immune from it.

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ihateshadylandlords t1_j6itdj0 wrote

Reply to What jobs will be one of the last remaining ones? by MrCensoredFace

Cops, paramedics, firefighters, face-to-face sex workers, physical/massage/mental/occupational therapists, k-12 teachers, daycare teachers, doctors, surgeons, construction workers, tradesmen, nurses and nursing assistants will be the last to go in my opinion.

I’m sure I can think of more, but that’s off the top of my head.

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ihateshadylandlords t1_j6iioib wrote

Reply to Parsel: A (De-)compositional Framework for Algorithmic Reasoning with Language Models - Stanford University Eric Zelikman et al - Beats prior code generation sota by over 75%! by Singularian2501

I asked GPTCHAT to make the summary in layman’s terms, because I couldn’t understand the abstract:

Parsel is a tool that helps computer programs called large language models (LLMs) better solve complex tasks. Normally, these LLMs have trouble with tasks that require multiple steps, like creating complicated programs. Parsel helps the LLMs by taking descriptions of the task in everyday language and turning it into code that the LLMs can understand. This makes the LLMs better at solving tasks like creating programs, planning for robots, and proving theories. Tests show that using Parsel leads to better results and more accurate answers compared to other methods. Parsel may also be helpful for human programmers in the future.

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ihateshadylandlords t1_j5lf1d6 wrote

Reply to In case the non physical job apocalypse happens, what will you guys do? by pehnsus

Get my UBI bucks, because blue collar jobs alone aren’t enough to sustain our current economic system. If all white collar work is automated, those employees get let go, they’re not spending money, all businesses receive less money, then they have to let people go and now we’re in a quagmire where so much is automated but no one has disposable income.

That’s not a win for anyone. The real shot callers in America have their wealth primarily from equity ownership. If no one’s purchasing products/services, then they’ll have very little power since their wealth is tied to consumers buying products/services from the companies they own.

I don’t see how else we can bridge the gap from our current economic system to a post scarcity/highly automated economic system without UBI.

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ihateshadylandlords t1_j5jm281 wrote

Reply to University of Toronto researchers used AI to discover a potential new cancer drug — in less than a month by BigShoots

>Insilico said it’s currently not interested in pursuing clinical trials for the potential drug; it’ll leave that for other researchers to follow now that the molecule has been publicly identified. Instead, the main purpose of the study was to serve as a “proof of concept” of what is now possible with AI, said Alán Aspuru-Guzik, a professor of computer science and chemistry at U of T, director of the Acceleration Consortium and the co-principal investigator who led the study.

So there won’t be any follow up with this drug.

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ihateshadylandlords t1_j1z0sr4 wrote

Reply to Med-PaLM — a large language model aligned to the medical domain to generate safe and helpful answers (Google Research, DeepMind) by nick7566

>While the answers provided by Med-PaLM show encouraging improvement, they still fall short of those provided by clinicians overall. This suggests that further research is needed before these models can be considered viable for clinical applications

Excited for whenever that happens.

!RemindMe 5 years

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