Jevons Paradox
It’s odd (paradoxical, even?) to call it a paradox when that’s what has happened in the medium to long term with nearly every previous period of major technology change.
I think the problem is that technology isn’t the main driver of how society’s wealth is distributed in a population: that’s a political choice. If technology creates more wealth in an unequal society, those at the top will be the beneficiaries. If it creates a wider awareness of the need for redistribution, then it’ll become a tide that raises all boats.
The bigger question is whether the LLM bubble is going to have any lasting impact.
I don’t think so.
Everything else in thr economy will run and cheap data centres will be used eventually. We use more and more every year the bubble won’t stop thr growth
No more resources for data centres.
It’s fucking insane that we are pumping trillions into replacing human workers when we can’t even provide everyone with food, housing, and healthcare.
These companies need to be stopped.
I don’t fucking want a job. I want progress.
Build the data centres.
We aren‘t spending trillions on data centers. The elites that hoarded all the wealth like a bunch of dragons do. And they will keep funding our decline until we do something about it.
You know, Siegfried probably had the right idea dumping all that gold into a river after slaying the dragon.
we could provide everyone with food, housing and healthcare. we chose not to. it’s more important for jeff to get another yacht and a fancy wedding in venice.
Yes, which is why we not to draw a line in the sand and demand no more building of data centers.
If there’s nothing in it for us, or all we get are the externalities, we should say no, as forcibly as is necessary.
They are just trying to undo the damage they did when they went around telling everyone they wont have a job anymore.
That wasn’t a warning, it was a sales pitch, to get sociopathic CEOs to buy their snake oil.
They shot themselves on the foot with that one
Turns out gloating when you don’t have the cards is a bad move.
Now he realized that he needs their money to survive. What an asshole.
Amodei’s not Altman. He actually seems to be trying to think things through.
