“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.”
-R B Fuller

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  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialOPtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Nearly 200 Economists and Tech Leaders Warn of A.I. ThreatsEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Your OG contribution:

    Stop repeating corpo criti-hype

    I pointed out that I am posting a short simple statement backed up by hundreds of impressive people, including over a dozen Nobel Laureates.

    Your response:

    the signers that are the problem (though the NYT is more than happy to platform the worst people)

    So I listed their names and asked for how, specifically, these are the “worst people”.

    How do you come to that conclusion? Is it by virtue of the fact that they have Nobel prizes? Or because they signed the statement? If the latter, which, at least, of the 3 points do you disagree with, and why?

    Are you this reflexively contrarian with everyone, or just me personally? Just curious

  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialOPtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Nearly 200 Economists and Tech Leaders Warn of A.I. ThreatsEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    You have an axe to grind, more like a religious tenet than an honest fact-based opinion.

    Tell me, of the 16 Nobel laureates in Economics the list, who got their prizes over the last 20 years, on issues from the effects of institutions to markets, policy, dynamics, development economics, and behavioral dynamics … which exactly are the “worst people”, and why, specifically?

    EDIT: make your job easier, here are their names. The scoundrels!

    Daron Acemoglu

    Simon Johnson

    James A. Robinson

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    A. Michael Spence

    Eric S. Maskin

    Roger B. Myerson

    Paul R. Milgrom

    Robert B. Wilson

    Robert J. Shiller

    Christopher A. Pissarides

    Peter A. Diamond

    Dale T. Mortensen

    Abhijit Banerjee

    Esther Duflo

    Michael Kremer

  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialOPtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Nearly 200 Economists and Tech Leaders Warn of A.I. ThreatsEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Have you actually read their statement? It’s rather short. https://www.wemustactnow.ai/

    1. AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years.

    2. This could drive an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution, but unfolding over a vastly shorter time frame. It could bring risks, including large-scale job displacement, as well as opportunities such as major gains in living standards.

    3. Economists, policymakers and technology leaders must act now to understand the economics of transformative AI and to build the incentives, guardrails, and institutions needed to steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society.

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