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DowntownYou5783 t1_ja93dzv wrote

I don't think it's laziness exactly. For a few people, work is a vocation and it's wonderful. For many people, work kind of sucks!

Now it's true that some people will idle away their days in a dopamine-infused stupor (click, click, click) should work no longer be required. But others will pursue passion projects they otherwise could not. Work sometimes gets in the way of living. It could be better for a lot of people (almost certainly a majority) if work becomes unnecessary.

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LeCodex t1_ja91q12 wrote

I'm not sure that "formal language use" means what you think it means.

Moreover, it's (ironically enough) naïve to presume that ChatGPT is a "huge" step toward AGI when all it is is a very good narrow AI (yes, plausible dialog is still a narrow task. It denotes a skill and skills aren't general intelligence). You wouldn't say that AlphaZero was a huge step on the path to AGI because it was so much better than Stockfish at the time. Why is it then different once dialog is involved ?

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QuantumPossibilities t1_ja90chb wrote

I mean they aren't sharing the most cutting edge material or the substantial amount of data used to build these networks. Here it's held by the collectors...Google, Tesla, Open A/I, NSA, etc. There the government (with the help of business) is the primary collector. All intellectual property there is the property of the government.

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drsimonz t1_ja8z9sb wrote

Not necessarily true. I don't think we really understand the true nature of intelligence. It could, for example, turn out that at very high levels of intelligence, an agent's values will naturally align with long-term sustainability, preservation of biodiversity, etc. due to an increase ability to predict future challenges. It seems to me that most of the disagreement on basic values among humans comes from the left side of the bell curve, where views are informed by nothing more than arbitrary traditions, and rational thought has no involvement whatsoever.

But yes, the alignment problem does feel kind of daunting when you consider how mis-aligned the human ruling class already is.

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IluvBsissa OP t1_ja8yeae wrote

We don't need "infinite resources" for that. We just need better resource management, something Americans are terrible at, that's why they consume so much more and enjoy so much less (healthcare, education, energy, housing...) this is why culture is important, for it teaches you how to optimize what you already have. Also, stop making children I guess ?

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IluvBsissa OP t1_ja8xv5f wrote

Etruscan were a peace-loving society. They had kings and nobility, but they were more figure-head than actual sovereign with more economic power. For the Minoan, it is believed the palace was more of a common Temple for the people, rather than a royal palace. Again, Graeber and Wengrow, actual archeologist and anthropologist, explain the latest research on the subject.

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GreatBigJerk t1_ja8xpox wrote

There are text to video generators being worked on now. Some are looking promising. In a few years, some combination of these techniques could eliminate the need for live actors.

Also, this technique could be done using 3D animations as the base. It could turn something rough into something pretty damn professional.

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