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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Lists Bookmarks Communities Premium Profile More Post Kavish Garg @thatkavish Post See new posts Conversation Séb Krier @sebkrier Half baked thought: In discussions about AI, claims are often made about both capabilities and societal effects, and in practice the boundary is pretty blurry. Different personality types and professions see things through different lenses. At the risk of over-caricaturising, two common lenses seem like the following: The comp sci prior tends to be: sufficiently capable ASI can in principle solve any problem. Local knowledge is just data to be ingested. If you're smart enough and have enough compute, you can centralize (and solve) everything. So once you pass the human 'intelligence' threshold, what 'utility' could a human ever have? The economist prior (especially the Hayekian strain) is: knowledge isn't just facts to be collected, it's contex

Séb Krier @sebkrier Half baked thought: In discussions about AI, claims are often made about both capabilities and societal effects, and in practice the boundary is pretty blurry. Different personality types and professions see things through different lenses. At the risk of over-caricaturising, two common lenses seem like the following: The comp sci prior tends to be: sufficiently capable ASI can in principle solve any problem. Local knowledge is just data to be ingested. If you're smart enough and have enough compute, you can centralize (and solve) everything. So once you pass the human 'int

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