alt Hacker NewsIt is fully in our control. There is no requirement that the world make you happy with LLM AI. We could decide as a civilization that you and your wants are insignificant and meaningless.
This conceit, that boosters deserve this and that even if they don't there's no way to stop it so civilization must absorb collateral damage, is ridiculous.
1. I’m not a booster who “wants” this
2. There’s no mechanism by which “we as a civilization” can make the decision you’re saying we can
3. Even if there were a mechanism for it, there’s no way we would actually use it
Sure there’s no physical requirement the train keeps rolling. But there’s something even worse! A web of incentives that say the train must keep rolling.
IMO the only way this slows down is through capital failure. But that will not be due to a decision to slow down, and will (ironically) be just as immutable by people’s personal desires.