faster than economies can adapt, triggering social unrest. The alternative sees automation removing so much friction from production that goods become effectively free.
“ Imagine being born into a world where you don’ t have access to paid work, but everything you need to survive and thrive as a human is free. Your food, your healthcare, your energy, your transport, your education – it’ s all there for you,” he says.
This would be protopia rather than utopia: a system getting incrementally better over time.“ Most of the people I know who are economically free are not sitting around bored and depressed,” he says. Push them hard enough and they all express the same desire: to make the world better. All of which brings him to consciousness.
The colour wheel theory of consciousness Large language models regurgitate patterns from training data. If the internet has enough information that Socrates is a man and all men are mortal, Daniel notes, models work out that Socrates is mortal. Without that data, they fail.
The next step involves checking assumptions and using reasoning to verify whether claims are actually true.
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