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Being optimistic is a bad way to get good outcomes

How is it an equalising force if the commodity is sold at "market value"? This will just lead to more wealth concentration, no?

you are conflating equity and equality. its equalising in the sense that it democratises access to data, knowledge. but that does not mean it will end up with everyone being equal in terms of wealth.

But it won't even do that. In the pursuit of extracting maximal capital, better models with "better" knowledge will be gated behind higher prices. If you pay more, you get more.

> There exists great promise in AI to be an equalizing force, if implemented well

That doesn’t sound like a promise then no?

> There exists great promise in AI to be an equalizing force, if implemented well

*looks at who's controlling the implementation of LLM-based "AI"*

*looks at who the largest beneficiaries of societal inequalities are*

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