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Magic wish granted? Everyone gains enough patience to leave it to research until it can be used safely and sensibly. It was fine when it was an abstract concept being researched by CS academics. It only became a problem when it all went public and got tangled in VC money.
Unfortunately, right now the world is providing the greatest level of research for AI.
I feel like the only thing that the world universally bans is nuclear weapons. AI would have to become so dangerous that the world decides to leave it in the lab, but you can easily make an LLM at home. You can’t just make nuclear power in your room.
How do you get your wish?
If I knew how to grant my wish, it'd be less of a wish and more of a quest. Sadly, I don't think there's a way to give patience to the world.
Yeah I don’t think our society is in a position mentally to have patience. We’ve trained our brains to demand a fast-paced variety of gratification at all costs.
We were already wired for it, but we didn't have access to the thing's we have now. It takes a lot of wealth to ride the hedonic treadmill, but our societies have reached a baseline wealth where it has become much more achievable to ride it almost all the time.