ChatGPT marks the beginning of the end for individualism

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4 points·claudfuen··3 comments

How long do you think until we elect our leaders by asking an all-knowing LLM

If we're prepared to ask an LLM that, why have leaders when we could just ask LLMs to draft new laws or budgets? For that matter, why have banks or centralized insurance firms, which grossly abuse their access to liquidity and longitudinal financial/actuarial data? The sooner we get rid of representative democracy and move toward systems of systems the better imho. I think as LLM capabilities grow it has the potential to radically improve transparency, since modeling and visualizing the operation of real economic and political systems is at present labor intensive and obtuse to most.

For years, we've operated under the belief that 'humans know best' - that our own judgment and abilities are the ultimate guide.

Super-knowledgeable AI systems will profoundly change that.

A short twitter thread.

I wonder if this line of thinking is missing the point on celebrity. It’s not that humans uniformly trust AI uniformly across all classes of decisions. It’s that humans are far more likely to trust an AI that look and sounds like a celebrity.

I think a personality avatar of Elon Musk or former US president Trump would catch on quickly as a backstop to C-level brainstorming. Given the info available to a junior VP, what would Musk do? How would I compete with him? Given todays headlines, what would get me retweeted by Trump?

And maybe the article means more. Personality, so far as we pay attention to it, is a small and simplistic part of individuality.

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