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AGI as Statistical Knowledge Compression: Healthcare, Education, Work

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01 November 2023 8h17

We need to hammer this home: the soon-to-become AGI of many is mere statistical knowledge compression. It’s great, it can help solving millions of problems in healthcare, in education, it can make the jobs of everybody more creativity-oriented.

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Regulating AI Applications Over Algorithms: Public Domain Knowledge

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01 November 2023 8h09

It may soon be a crime to compress public domain human knowledge into public domain matrices. We need to regulate the usage of AI in applications, not gradient descent

Knowledge Restrictions in AI: Ethics Versus Governance

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01 November 2023 6h57

That's highly controversial, and attempts to minimize the spread of some kinds of knowledge have largely been consigned to history (and a handful of autocratic states).

Knowledge Access Inequality and Status Quo Power Structures

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01 November 2023 1h26

You *are* separating the world into those you believe are trusted to have knowledge and skills, and those that aren't – and you're making that separation based on current status quo access.

Elite Knowledge Access Versus Democratic AI Accessibility

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01 November 2023 1h22

Yes, one is exclusively available to an elite, whereas the other makes knowledge accessible more widely. If you believe the wide access to knowledge is more dangerous because normal people are less trustworthy than elites, then we have different fundamental beliefs.

Information Control and Elitism: Historical Lessons for AI

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01 November 2023 1h20

I guess my key contention is the idea that people outside of exclusive circles are evil/stupid is a foundational fundamental premise of the most evil periods of history. And it's a premise behind the idea of controlling powerful information.