You are given limited access to the Gearworks of Reality. You may delete one of these from human civilization.
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@mttaggart assertion: all the folks not tapping "gambling" have gambling addiction and cldn't survive a day w/o a game of chance.
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I don't get it... You said "one of these" but where is the second choice?
@mttaggart Isn't genAI just a subset of Gambling?
@mttaggart considering intermittent reinforcement, they're the same picture...
@neurovagrant I'm not so sure. See some replies for rationales.
@mttaggart the funnier part is that gambling contributes to the geo-engineering of the nevada desert, which i suspect has a lot of water impact.
this is a fun question.
Delete MBAs and TechBros is the solution. There something rotten at the core of humanity that always results in these (or their analogues) and that's why we can't have nice things
@mttaggart neither is in the top ten of things I worry about, so probably "neither". I might feel inclined to "investigate" what else I might change. :)
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 Well, you could certainly argue Generative AI is a form of gambling
