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James Cham's avatar

Feels like we are overdue for an examination of what economics of lower cost intelligence looks like—while the exact mechanism described isn’t likely to happen, I think about the economic dynamics a lot whenever I try to imagine abundant LLMs.

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Donald Hobson's avatar

Why wouldn't an em worker care about these? With regards to socialabilities, these seem pretty essential in the workplace. Human workerstoday need to interact & manage relationships with colleagues,bosses, customers, partners, clients, employees, the general public,etc. Why wouldn't ems too?Bank clarks maintained social relationships, ATM's don't. For many engineering jobs, you want a mind that can take a technical specification containing performance, efficiency, weight ect, and design an component to those specs. It doesn't seem to me like the social relationships humans make actually helps with this.

Note that when we link together our existing software, we try to do so"at arm's length", through APIs allowing specific defined operations,rather than by allowing every part of each program to interact directlywith every part of the other program.Because if they interacted directly, they would be part of the same program. There is no reason that a single "program" couldn't contain multiple human brain emulations. (Or that an API couldn't contain neural signals)

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