dystopian novel type shit

Which makes the fact that their predictive text models are incapable of original thought that much more absurd.

...we should eat them.

do it

Train him?

Why? He's doing his best to show how absurd our current system is.

Any of those man-eating predators still around?

I wonder why nobody has Mangione'd those filthy millionaires yet.

He's not efficient enough for current construct. Exterminate!

He will probably claim to work a gazillion hours a week with an unrivaled efficiency, making him one of the most productive humans on Earth. Because these people are not just sociopaths, they're also completely delusional about their intelligence and true worth, out of money worth.

Not trying to defend the idiotic argument, but feels like more often than not the human output is not what I would call coherent, capable and well functioning.

Well another argument they have is the amount of waste that comes with the churn of fiat currency, where we inflate asset values in order to deliberately grow aggregate demand.

The housing bubble for instance was obviously cheap debt, which was used to grow aggregate consumption, by rewarding asset holders thus encouraging them to offload their asset to increase the velocity of money.

On the gold standard the average mortgage was 7 years, which was because there was less need to grow the money supply, because we werent trying to force an inflation target. Massive windfalls werent common, and thus housing wasnt being bid up via the cantillon effect, so was better for society in many ways when consumption wasnt being forced onto people.

A modest proposal

but PER QUESTION how many kilowatt hours are they using. not just in their heads, in their hearts and in their booties.

I don't but the police work for me since I am a billionaire and they can murder the unemployed for me!

Plan is obvious... to me. Why not so to everybody else

To save the working man, you've got to put him out to pasture

                 Soup us Good Food - Dead Kennedys 

It literally warms my heart to know they are all just as temporary as the rest of us. And how afraid they are of being dust in the wind

Hey don't get angry at me, it is them immigrants fault I had to dehumanize you

Where did you get that idea ? Everything is here to generate profits for investors, nothing else

You think he would oppose a massive genocide of 99.9% of humanity if he could get an army of robots to sérve him in his new world?

Think again!

Doesn't the human brain do what it does on like the same electricity as a lightbulb?

Yes, it's disingenuous for him to bring up all the time used for humans to evolve as well. If we're going to go that far, we also ought to include the energy/time used by the engineers who created ChatGPT, and all the energy used by plants/animals in the evolution leading to those engineers. Not to mention all the time/energy/training of all the people who created the training data over the past few centuries.

Frankly, at that point, any human artist is more "efficient" than AI - they're able to master their field in mere decades.

I really don't think he meant it that way. Think of it like this - if I want to generate some images, my GPU will run at 100% for few minutes. If I want to play cyberpunk, my GPU will run at 100% for hours.

Do you think we could actually get that much processing power out of Sam Altman if we shoved him in one of those things though?

Don't forget the energy needed to produce the humans who:

• Produced research leading to the creation of LLMs.
• Figured out how to design the GPUs that AI run on.
• Extracted the raw materials for the chips.
• Processed the materials into products.
• Transported the materials and products.
• Installed the GPUs in datacenters.
• Built the datacenters.
• Operate the civil infrastructure providing power and water to the datacenters.
• Planned and designed that civil infrastructure.
• Congregated into a single area to create the town/city where that infrastructure was planned.
• Birthed that population of people.
• Etc.

Hint: It's the same cumulative energy that his own stupid argument is hinged on.

And inventing and refining the computer

If you eat one techbro, you consume about 300,000 kcal, which is significantly more energy than it takes to ask chatGPT one question. So who is more energy efficient, AI-atheists? /s

We should just eat them all. They stopped contributing anything of value years ago.

A good ol' public hanging.

The problem isn't so much their reckless careless behavior, but that they can get so many people to go along and invest.

MBAs became too powerful in organizations making decisions about technology they don't understand in conjunction with shareholders/investors pumping money into hype because they don't understand how deliverables in tech works. When will OpenAI actually deliver ?

It's the end of an era, the last hurrah where things are taken to the extreme.

According to the article, this was his literal next sentence:

And not only that, it took the very widespread evolution of the 100 billion people that have ever lived and learned not to get eaten by predators and learned how to figure out science and whatever, to produce you.

Where's Alannis Morissette when you need her?