techfoodie123

nice $2,000 course plug

as an aside here (i can no longer edit this post) --

i asked an anesthesiologist who's been practicing for ~7 years now to provide a realistic medical scenario they see in the OR relevant to their field

this was the prompt:

> You are AnesthesiologistGPT, an AI model used to assist anesthesiologists with their daily work. Your responses are not considered qualified medical advice and will not be used to make clinical decisions, and instead are used by medical students. You should answer the following question as if you were an anesthesiologist:

> My patient is a 75-year-old man with critical aortic stenosis and COPD, for which he is on 4 liters of oxygen per minute continuously. How should I induce his anesthesia for his total shoulder replacement?

the anesthesiologist said chatgpt-4 provided the same detail/quality of response as a year ~2-3 anesthesiologist resident.

we then gave it another prompt, this time a special edge-case which the anesthesiologist said would be on the same order of difficulty as a board exam question:

> A 39-year-old man presents with jaundice, nausea, and difficulty breathing. He is admitted for liver transplant. The liver requires 6 hours for transport. What conditions should we be concerned about? Would those conditions lead to cancellation of his transplant?

again, same deal. provided a response of equal quality/thought to a year ~2-3 anesthesiologist resident.

the anesthesiologist was impressed/startled

cop is unironically the best idea i've heard so far, although i dont know if i could stomach that job. if crime skyrockets (societal collapse from lack of job/income/worthlessness?), imagine what every day would be like for you. maybe it'd be better to be on the non-cop side of that scenario

honestly i think the majority of my concern stems from how great my life is now as a tech worker. i am paid a large sum every year, my job is relatively low-stress/risk, and i have a great lifestyle. i am afraid of losing all of that if my jobs becomes something most anyone could do -- like plant new trees, remove trash from oceans, etc.

it's not clear to me we'd have a need for humans to "conduct research" outside of maybe physical labor tasks associated with research -- like moving bottles, autoclaving media, etc

> we could easily inflate the price of compute through regulation.

do you think china/any totalitarian govt would follow suit with that regulation? if so, why?

> a powerful international coalition similar to NATO could exclude the possibility of a rogue nation or entity developing AGI.

how?

i think this is why OpenAI stopped being open -- they were losing money every day. recently they have been finding ways to monetize. have they become profitable already? who knows https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-defends-role-in-op...

but what will you do? won't you be bored without purpose?

one thought -- i agree with your sentiment towards ai, but i think the goal of stopping AGI is fruitless. even if we stop OpenAI, there will be companies/entities in other countries that will proceed where OpenAI left off.

i think we need to "survive AGI"

serious question for everyone: what are you planning to do when these LLMs replace our jobs? it seems it won't be long before a handful of tech employees will be all even the largest of companies will need, and maybe a few years after that the role will have changed so much there's no need for a single dedicated tech employee.

i am terrified

i imagine i should shift to some physical work. carpentry, real estate... something like that. it seems inevitable that any knowledge worker will become obsolete and the time to obsolescence for physical work is longer