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omega1212 t1_ja89cew wrote
Reply to comment by zachster77 in The Desert of the Virtual. The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems by Maxwellsdemon17
Maybe publicly financed elections would do it indirectly. But yeah it seems power is where all the good ideas go to die lol
omega1212 t1_ja87py4 wrote
Reply to comment by zachster77 in The Desert of the Virtual. The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems by Maxwellsdemon17
That's fair. I think I just trust crowds more than elites in ethical questions (for logical ones it's the reverse). They're more likely to think of themselves in bad and good positions of hypothetical social arrangements.
And no I haven't! I largely agree with that statement about aligning incentives, if not for the tendency towards regulatory capture, not sure how you account for that
omega1212 t1_ja7zeyk wrote
Reply to comment by zachster77 in The Desert of the Virtual. The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems by Maxwellsdemon17
Certainly. Beyond the clearly undemocratic nature of the aim being decided more interestingly I wonder if it could be decided democratically, or at least at an individual level
omega1212 t1_ja7rnm7 wrote
Reply to comment by zachster77 in The Desert of the Virtual. The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems by Maxwellsdemon17
As a correction money does not mostly flow to innovators but to their investors and the rest of the capital class. They rarely see more than a few percent of the value of what they produce
omega1212 t1_j5a3nzj wrote
Reply to comment by AoLzHeLLz in Google to relax AI safety rules to compete with OpenAI by Surur
Now it just recommends chili p
omega1212 t1_ivs06vp wrote
This is true bravery, hats off to Ms. Taraneh Alidoosti
omega1212 t1_ja8w7xm wrote
Reply to comment by wwen42 in The Desert of the Virtual. The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems by Maxwellsdemon17
It's more about the "aim" of innovation, i.e. what social configuration and lifestyle are we trying to enable with technology. If you ask the billionaire class they might be interested in a future where a lot of people (other than them) work a ton to advance their visions of the future. And if you ask everyone else they might think we should automate as much as possible to enable creativity and human freedom