From @pluralistic
“A commonplace among model users is that we must make "The Big Tradeoff" – we can either reduce inequality, or we can increase prosperity, but not both, because reducing inequality means taking resources away from the business leaders who would otherwise build the corporations whose products would make us all better off.”
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/03/all-models-are-wrong/
As long as the likes of Sam Altman holds this belief, we are all in grave danger.
@pluralistic Last week on Lex Fridman’s podcast, Sam Altman repeated a familiar line, also alluded to in his ‘Moore's Law for Everything’:
“I am a big believer in lift up the floor and don't worry about the ceiling.”
Deeply unwise. The difference between a million$ and a billion$ is roughly a billion$. Uncapped wealth devalues our common wealth.
If #AI can’t make the people in power any wiser, it’s not gonna do us any good.
"lift up the floor and don't worry about the ceiling.”
If you lift the floor and the ceiling is fixed, people will get crushed in a vice. Or am I missing something with the metaphor?
