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A man who can't seem to help out his own sister, is now going to save the world with a 7 trillion dollar LLM fund.
Thats 10 years of the us military budget.
Thats the GDP of Japan and India Combined.
Sam Altman is to tech what late 80's telivanglishts were to religion.
I’m going out on a whim here but surely putting $7t towards solving something like food poverty in the undeveloped world, or subsidising renewable energy for the average person, would be of a much greater benefit to humanity than further lining the already bursting pockets of entitled individuals. Call me old fashioned but having living, healthy humans is more valuable to humanity than an, albeit impressive, text gen…
You're not old fashioned. You're sensible.
I fully agree with the sentiment, but I am bit... confused? with the section that raises possible concerns about the negatives of LLMs. In particular the "women" mention, without any ellaboration. Am I missing something? It feels pretty lazy. Like an enumeration of things we are supposed to care about, rather than an effort to build a solid argumentation against Sam Altman's fundraising effort. And I have other issue…
> How do we know that $7 trillion invested into LLMs and their infrastructure would not simply exacerbate those costs, grinding down content creators, women, and the environment, undermining democracy, destroying jobs, etc?
“Destroying jobs” is pretty much a _good_ thing. I think we’re all pretty happy we don’t need dedicated people anymore for a lot of tedious tasks that we take for granted these days (washing clothes etc)
I’m going out on a whim here but surely putting $7t towards solving something like food poverty in the undeveloped world, or subsidising renewable energy for the average person, would be of a much greater benefit to humanity than further lining the already bursting pockets of entitled individuals. Call me old fashioned but having living, healthy humans is more valuable to humanity than an, albeit impressive, text gen…
https://truthout.org/articles/musk-pledged-6b-to-solve-world...
Sam Altman: A man who can't seem to help out his own sister, is now going to save the world with a 7 trillion dollar LLM fund. Thats 10 years of the us military budget. Thats the GDP of Japan and India Combined. Sam Altman is to tech what late 80's telivanglishts were to religion.
I’m going out on a whim here but surely putting $7t towards solving something like food poverty in the undeveloped world, or subsidising renewable energy for the average person, would be of a much greater benefit to humanity than further lining the already bursting pockets of entitled individuals. Call me old fashioned but having living, healthy humans is more valuable to humanity than an, albeit impressive, text gen…
I’m going out on a whim here but surely putting $7t towards solving something like food poverty in the undeveloped world, or subsidising renewable energy for the average person, would be of a much greater benefit to humanity than further lining the already bursting pockets of entitled individuals. Call me old fashioned but having living, healthy humans is more valuable to humanity than an, albeit impressive, text gen…
Remember when Elon tweeted out that he would spend his potential $6bn tax write-off to save world hunger if only someone would give him a plan, then the UN sent him a plan that would save 42 million people from food poverty, then instead of doing that he donated it to his own foundation instead? https://truthout.org/articles/musk-pledged-6b-to-solve-world...
It does not matter much here, but most probably he's not the only one.
This whole discussion is kind of silly. 7T is 8% of global gdp. If your thing needs 7T of investment to happen, then it’s not going to happen.
Formally, that's not the correct analogy, but very creepy, as it sounds pretty similar (however not equivalent) to asking for 8% of the world population to be his project slaves.