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What if we let AI govern us?

https://inevolin.substack.com/p/what-if-we-let-ai-govern-us

2•iljanevo•1h ago

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krapp•57m ago

No.

nephihaha•45m ago

That is the eventual plan I suspect. It will be claimed to be non-partisan, blah blah.

evil-olive•19m ago

> an intelligence with no campaign to fund, no donors, and no cousin in the oil business, built to optimize a single goal of human prosperity.

I'm sorry, but come on. this is ludicrously naive.

who writes the system prompt? who's allowed to approve changes to the system prompt?

and those people...can't be lobbied or bribed? why not?

LLMs are a big pile of GPUs. they are not a magic genie. don't ask them to fulfill your wishes.

iljanevo•16m ago

A pile of GPUs who recently solved 10 long standing math problems. Those pile of GPUs are, in my ignorant opinion, smarter than the people we have running our countries [at least on an IQ basis].

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Cloudflare OS

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