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This vast amount of human talent and computational power could be channeled into fighting disease and death.

I'm not quite sure what you mean, so I'll ask for clarification. Are you saying this technology can be channeled into fighting disease and death, or that the man hours and computational freed up by this technology can be channeled?

Biologists, chemists, and researchers can be all automated and trained on a very big LLM that OpenAI eventually creates. Then, more cures to diseases and technological advances can be invented. This technology can soon run entire countries and emulate humanity / society.

If you assume the technology will be able to do arbitrary things in the future then sure.

I think that all this goodness was spent on entertainment at a time when every second a catastrophe occurs - a human dies.

Oh I see what you mean, thanks.

Yeah, this is a very real issue with a lot of Silicon Valley tech, unfortunately. They're perfecting the art of pretending everything is fine, I feel like.

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