Co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it

Post by gmerc » Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 6:23 AM UTC

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Kings are a poor comparison. It’s a shit job and sucks in all kinds of surprising and non-surprising ways. Are our poor better off than financially independent aristocrats of yesteryear? The kind that can be “an artist” or something their whole life. I guess in some ways it’s better now, more tech. But I’m not sure freedom and respect can be bought/replaced with tech alone.

If you’re having kids, you would want them to be born in a poor family in modern day Germany than to aristocrats 300 years ago. The infant mortality back then was brutal, even for the aristocrats.

Post by gmerc » Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 6:28 AM UTC

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Since the old stone age this planets population has been bumbling along at below 1 billion people until the 1800's. [1] And then by the 1970's they perfected the female contraceptive pill to bring the growth rate down from its peak of 2.1% to its current 1.2% and a projected 0.06% by 2100, which should see the peak population on the planet at 11 billion people. But is AI a new source of wealth? That remains to be see…

it's precisely the copyrighted aspect i'm interested in using to justify the redirection of the profits toward universal basic income - there's no way to solve the fractional royalties of how much revenue to distribute to individual contributors to the datasets; practically everyone online contributed to the datasets to some degree Japan has issued guidance that they won't use copyright law to dampen the pace of inno…

Post by jazzyjackson » Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 5:35 AM UTC

gmerc wrote: post #73

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it's precisely the copyrighted aspect i'm interested in using to justify the redirection of the profits toward universal basic income - there's no way to solve the fractional royalties of how much revenue to distribute to individual contributors to the datasets; practically everyone online contributed to the datasets to some degree Japan has issued guidance that they won't use copyright law to dampen the pace of inno…

Uhm. Look at content owners vs artists right now - look SAG strike and the insane employer proposal. The idea that copyright won’t backfired badly and freeze future generations into paying rent is ludicrous.