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I guess you practically asked for it.

@mttaggart I obviously understand there is a distinction. But I also don't think I'd live in the country with the highest data centre per capita ratio in Europe if venture capitalists weren't betting on betting smart enough to get out before the bubble bursts. It's how much they keep pushing it beyond the scope of utility that makes it such a scourge. Its the griftiness of it all.

@mttaggart LLMs are gambling, the stock market is gambling, the same way prediction markets are gambling. Therefore I will erase gambling and GenAI will subside overnight because everyone will lose interest since the only shiny thing about it is gone

@mttaggart As reprehensible in every way gen AI has become, I didn't hesitate to choose gambling. That's the problem that would require Gearworks of Reality-level powers to eradicate. With regulation and enforcement, gen AI can be rendered safe enough. It's doing great damage in the meantime, but that's on us humans, who could have prevented it. No human could prevent gambling.

@mttaggart Shame it's only one!

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I feel like removing gambling may fix enough things so that AI also dies.
If gambling on stock is no longer a thing a will a lot of investment would go away.

@mttaggart I choose gambling because generative AI is not enough. I want all AI to fucking burn.

@mttaggart Do you mean like, the different ways one can gamble, or the inborn human urge to gamble? I’m kinda assuming the latter, because the former is a legal policy that is just Prohibition - with all the success and longevity that comes with it - and the latter would require access to reality’s guts to change.

So definitely the human nature one. Much better return than banning something.

@mttaggart Truly, neither. Not our biggest problems. Show me the glitch that predisposes us to confirmation bias - I’d like to iron out that one.

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Since generative AI is only so prominent because the tech CEOs are gambling they can create the fabled singularity before their financial bubble collapses, eliminating the human desire to gamble will eliminate destructive behavior like they're doing with AI now.

@mttaggart gambling (recreational) is almost impossible to eradicate, as it is very low tech and essentially a construct of mind, so you'd have to alter the very nature of human cognition as it depends on our ability for risk analysis.

People can bet on which stick floats down a river fastest.

Generative AI is high-tech dependent and has yet to be shown as even vaguely efficient in resource usage - it hasn't even *started* to break even at scale.
The price signal of using it has yet to be determined.

Removing genAI is the only achievable one that renders a recognisable world, and every adult alive has lived in a time of no genAI.
The same cannot be said of gambling (recreational).

@mttaggart get rid of gambling and end GenAI use as a result 👍

@mttaggart isn't generative AI also gambling?

@mttaggart If gambling includes the investment & stock market, which it should, then that - it would take most of our other problems away too.