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schnebbau

> We're all sacrificing great things

Oh please.

> Unethically sourced data

Is that a great sacrifice?

> data centers that cause droughts

That's nonsense.

> normal people can't afford to buy RAM anymore

Lol? Another great sacrifice?

This isn't a healthy or sensible way to think.

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How about total surveillance total thought control total power in a hands of few trillionaires in the near future. Drones killing undesirables with cheering crowds watching.

It is not like it is much different right now but it may be significantly worse.

And even that is one of the “good” outcomes assuming no ASI.

That is a bad outcome. But there are better possible outcomes that the doomers ignore. How about AI curing cancer? I think that alone is worth the risks.

By the time we spend all the earths resources to train AI models so that cancer is cured, we could have spent those same resources training real humans. The literacy rate of undeveloped countries is still abysmal. We could train more people and fund more research.

And humans can keep growing while AI can only grow if it has access to high quality training data. Who provides the data? Humans.

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