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Okay, firstly, if we’re going to get superintelligent AIs, it’s not going to happen from better LLMs. Secondly, we seem to have already reached the limits of LLMs, so even if that were how to get there it doesn’t seem possible. Thirdly, this is an odd problem to list: “human economic obsolescence”.
What does that actually mean? Feels difficult to read it any way other than saying that money will become obsolete. Which…good? But I suppose not if you’re already a billionaire. Because how else would people know that you won capitalism?
AI is pretty unique as far as technological innovation goes because of how it interacts with labour markets.
Most labour-saving technologies increase the productivity of labour, increasing its value, which generally makes ordinary people a little better off, for a time at least.
AI is different because instead of enhancing human labour, it competes with it, driving down the value of labour. This makes workers worse off.
This problem is of course unique to an economic system where workers must sell their labour to others.