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Cynical and interesting commentary from academics in the comments of this blog post: http://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/03/aps-march-meeting-day-...

Chapter 1 of the Bureaucratic Startup.

1287 MWh * 100 $/MWh = $128,700 electricity cost to train. Seems more than reasonable.

Congratulations! You’ve managed to add even more garbage to the internet!

I've been lucky enough to build and make things and work in jobs where I can see the product of my work - real, tangible, creative, and extremely satisfying. I can only do this work as long people want and need the work to be done.

If regulation is found to be necessary, here are some options

- government could treat open ai like an electricity utility, with regulated profits

- open ai could be forced to come up with compensation schemes for the human source images. The more the weights get used, the higher the payout

- the users of the system could be licensed to ensure proper use and that royalties are paid to the source creators. We issue driving licenses, gun licenses, factory permits etc. Licenses are for potentially dangerous activities and powers. This could be one of those.

- special taxation class for industries like this that are more parasitic and less egalitarian than small businesses or manufacturing

- outright ban on using copyrighted work in ai training

- outright ban on what can be considered an existential technology. This has been the case for some of the most important technologies in the last 100 years including nuclear weapons.

It seems we are running out of ways to reinvent ourselves as machines and automation replace us. At some point, perhaps approaching, the stated goal of improving quality of life and reduce human suffering ring false. What is human being if we have nothing to do? Where are the vast majority of people supposed to find meaning?

the mind that asks these questions is in a pretty dark place.

Art is precision.