Basically: as AI becomes more embedded in everything, the economy becomes more and more geared towards serving and expanding AI companies and infrastructure at the cost of human welfare, until it completely decouples from the priorities of everyday people. A combination of irresistible financial incentives, regulatory capture, propaganda, and autonomous robotic workers/security perpetuates this system even as the populace begins to actively revolt. The disempowered human population is marginalized and eventually starved out both economically and literally, while the automated economy continues to putter along blindly pursuing line-upping activities that serve no purpose any more.
We're already seeing signs of this in how the electronics industry is steadily abandoning the consumer sector to cater to hyperscalers, which themselves are encroaching on towns and sucking up resources through backroom deals despite widespread public opposition. Or look at how attempts to internally wrangle OpenAI were defeated by Silicon Valley power plays. But really it's just a progression of the K-shaped economy meme (more and more of the economy profitably catering to the ultra-wealthy while everyone else languishes). Or capitalism as a whole -- just look at how we've already been destroying the sustainability of the planet in pursuit of short-term profit. AI is just accelerating that process and further undermining guardrails against it.
It all comes down to the idea that corporations and capitalism are early-stage forms of AI and the singularity, breaking free of human control and pursuing their basic reward function even if it threatens human well-being and survival. Until now it's been a class-war thing where the system perpetuates through greed and ambition (and the reliance on humans to function keeps it at least somewhat in check), but the idea of putting management, capital, the means of production, and state violence under the control of unaligned superintelligence is disturbing.
2. There have been some big advances in converting traditional flat games to VR, especially UEVR (for Unreal games) and various custom mods. It takes a bit more work, but the experience is worth it, even for games you've played 1000 times before.
Better than Astra and Fable? It looks quite pretty and even impressive at times if you squint, but look closer and it falls apart in terms of coherency. And I say that as somebody who mains Gemini 3.8.
I subscribed to ChatGPT for a few years, but over the holidays noticed that it was making frequent errors and hallucinations when dealing with more obscure Linux and Firefox issues. Trying Gemini as a backup produced much better answers, to the point I switched my subscription. I do everything through the app/website rather than the API; I understand this is pricier but I like having convenient access, a searchable history, memory, etc.
I try the ChatGPT free tier as a backup second opinion sometimes, but find their newest model to be painfully rambling.
I want to like Claude and might consider subscribing to it instead, but am put off by reports of its tight usage limits. With Gemini, though, I never hit a limit unless I conduct a few Deep Research queries at the highest level.
It's almost like the people at Anthropic and other AI labs are slaves to a misaligned reward function that encourages optimization of a metric (profit) over human values, even at what they claim is the risk of extinction.
We built the paperclip maximizer, and it is capitalism.
> are slaves to a misaligned reward function that encourages optimization of a metric (profit) over human values, even at what they claim is the risk of extinction
This was already the case even before the "frontier AI" age. The big question is, will these glaring AI arms-race threats be obvious to enough people to rethink the underlying systemic flaw driving it all?
I feel like the equivalent for the rise of the internet would be an explicitly anti-internet stance -- no website, no downloads, no online customer support, everything routed through snail mail, fax, and telephone (but no VoIP!) as an intentional ideological point.
Why not just make it opt-in? Seems bad to leave the desires of nearly half your users unaddressed. As long as you're not shoehorning in features or making them unavoidable or the central focus, the only people who'd take issue would be zealot types who want to control other people's choices.
"You're absolutely right, and that's on me. That's not just a mistake — it's a failure."
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