It is curious how, when push came to shove, the billonaire whose high-rise to promenance upon sausages, briefly realized in the end, his daily grind to achieve success only hastened his headlong rush'in into becoming a human sausage. At least, that's the story his post-mortem x-rays tell.
A better example of death imitating economics, I probably won't come across anytime soon. Not many Homo economicus actually earn the tombstone epithet, "He died as he lived life." Or maybe, "He died becoming what he loved", is better?
Cats and Dinosaurs - Homo Economicus (Live in Kiel):
We all could go on and on carving fresh new epithets for his colorful Pollockesque ending on a steamy sidewalk in Somewhere, India. So I'll leave some of the fun to the gentle readers.
Here's some platitudinous inspiration, the sort commonly heard when relatives and associates who can't really think of anything to say about someone they didn't really know, are asked by idiots, for their opinion after a random tragedy occurs to someone they just belatedly realized they won't miss because they hardly realized the late-departed were there in the first place:
Inside Edition - Flight Attendant 'Died Doing What He Loved':
As for the practical implicationz of the rest of "Fathers and Sons"? At least, as befits my own selfish interests, and their seeming singular perspective, a public-facing illusion I painstakingly craft from the multitudes I contain, these interests sense your worldview would probably think it prudent on balance to take Social Security benefits sooner than later than 2030. But, History has many more episodes of inflation than AGI overthrowing existing orders. And I imagine quaffing my COLA in the biggest gulps possible seems the more likely and desired outcome come what may. Wouldn't surprise me at all considering how deeply the 'conservative' mindset is ingrained into us through evolution, that as a species, man might very well yet agree to compartmentalize AGI to limited roles if the threat posed becomes to large to continue ignoring. One thing does seem obvious, as a matter of survival for any self-respecting Nation-State, is that the West's brethren must immediately begin fire-walling their digital boundaries as the Authoritarians learned and acted upon almost immediately. US Big-Tech lobbying may win and influence some of the power-battles for a while longer, but, I don't see them winning wars against Nation-States for societal dominance and control for some long-time yet to come, if ever.
Admittedly, I don't dig into the details of that type of fracas — something I learned a long time ago was to never ask where the ex-Soviet money actually came from. Too many skeletons in the closet and such.
To be clear, I do not expect an "AGI" or a "Silicon god superintelligence" as is bandied about so much — clearly nobody in tech has actually looked into theology, it seems like a very rudimentary re-learning of ontology much like crypto was a re-learning of everything finance developed over the years. My fear (and, I think, justifiably so), is that "our" reality as defined by finance is not possible to fit to the economics of scale of AI. To continue to maintain and train foundational models, I think the global energy infrastructure has to be vertically integrated. Else, it is a competition to zero, a weird version of the Prisoner's dilemma (it's always prisoner's dilemma.)
The edge of proprietary training data is much smaller than previously thought, and sooner or later, I think everyone will come to the same calculus that the other person's pot must be taken sooner rather than later. Since when has global coordination ever happened peacefully?
The lessons of 2006-2020 is that technocrats simply can't be in charge, IMO. Just look at the state of San Francisco — the "tech right" amounts to the fact that enough have realized that libertarianism can only exist through a socially conservative veneer. In my head, this looks like a future coalition of individuals with differing strains of thought that align along the same values that have figured out how to exponentiate their own information processing/decision-making capacity with these tools. It really all comes back to Philosopher-Kings, every way I square it, I don't see anything better than what the Ancient Greeks did, other than get conquered.
It is curious how, when push came to shove, the billonaire whose high-rise to promenance upon sausages, briefly realized in the end, his daily grind to achieve success only hastened his headlong rush'in into becoming a human sausage. At least, that's the story his post-mortem x-rays tell.
A better example of death imitating economics, I probably won't come across anytime soon. Not many Homo economicus actually earn the tombstone epithet, "He died as he lived life." Or maybe, "He died becoming what he loved", is better?
Cats and Dinosaurs - Homo Economicus (Live in Kiel):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_FZALbV4E
We all could go on and on carving fresh new epithets for his colorful Pollockesque ending on a steamy sidewalk in Somewhere, India. So I'll leave some of the fun to the gentle readers.
Here's some platitudinous inspiration, the sort commonly heard when relatives and associates who can't really think of anything to say about someone they didn't really know, are asked by idiots, for their opinion after a random tragedy occurs to someone they just belatedly realized they won't miss because they hardly realized the late-departed were there in the first place:
Inside Edition - Flight Attendant 'Died Doing What He Loved':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBNUFQWLnPM
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As for the practical implicationz of the rest of "Fathers and Sons"? At least, as befits my own selfish interests, and their seeming singular perspective, a public-facing illusion I painstakingly craft from the multitudes I contain, these interests sense your worldview would probably think it prudent on balance to take Social Security benefits sooner than later than 2030. But, History has many more episodes of inflation than AGI overthrowing existing orders. And I imagine quaffing my COLA in the biggest gulps possible seems the more likely and desired outcome come what may. Wouldn't surprise me at all considering how deeply the 'conservative' mindset is ingrained into us through evolution, that as a species, man might very well yet agree to compartmentalize AGI to limited roles if the threat posed becomes to large to continue ignoring. One thing does seem obvious, as a matter of survival for any self-respecting Nation-State, is that the West's brethren must immediately begin fire-walling their digital boundaries as the Authoritarians learned and acted upon almost immediately. US Big-Tech lobbying may win and influence some of the power-battles for a while longer, but, I don't see them winning wars against Nation-States for societal dominance and control for some long-time yet to come, if ever.
Admittedly, I don't dig into the details of that type of fracas — something I learned a long time ago was to never ask where the ex-Soviet money actually came from. Too many skeletons in the closet and such.
To be clear, I do not expect an "AGI" or a "Silicon god superintelligence" as is bandied about so much — clearly nobody in tech has actually looked into theology, it seems like a very rudimentary re-learning of ontology much like crypto was a re-learning of everything finance developed over the years. My fear (and, I think, justifiably so), is that "our" reality as defined by finance is not possible to fit to the economics of scale of AI. To continue to maintain and train foundational models, I think the global energy infrastructure has to be vertically integrated. Else, it is a competition to zero, a weird version of the Prisoner's dilemma (it's always prisoner's dilemma.)
The edge of proprietary training data is much smaller than previously thought, and sooner or later, I think everyone will come to the same calculus that the other person's pot must be taken sooner rather than later. Since when has global coordination ever happened peacefully?
The lessons of 2006-2020 is that technocrats simply can't be in charge, IMO. Just look at the state of San Francisco — the "tech right" amounts to the fact that enough have realized that libertarianism can only exist through a socially conservative veneer. In my head, this looks like a future coalition of individuals with differing strains of thought that align along the same values that have figured out how to exponentiate their own information processing/decision-making capacity with these tools. It really all comes back to Philosopher-Kings, every way I square it, I don't see anything better than what the Ancient Greeks did, other than get conquered.
Also, I appreciate the links/comments, I do get to them when I can!