Where is our thought leader these days?
Moreover, if we move in the direction of making machines which learn and whose behavior is modified by experience, we must face the fact that every degree of independence we give the machine is a degree of possible defiance of our wishes. The genie in the bottle will not willingly go back in the bottle, nor have we any reason to expect them to be well disposed to us.
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Meanwhile,
I think affluent middle class is key to a lot of things, especially for the US.
The rise of cheap Chinese open-weight models is a shock, if not an “attack”.
“Middle class” that is merely existing without a lot of options in life is not affluent middle class. Free will doesn’t prevail in this case.