I’ve had this idea rattling around in my head that when you strip out all the very human perceptions of our world, of money and political power and the like, what your left with is this: the profit motive is, physically, entropy maximization. Why, in the 21st century, is petrolium still our primary energy source? Min/Maxing effort. Entropy.
Why are we burning so much CPU time to solve math problems to scrape data to train a model with diminishing returns? Entropy.
I’m an idiot and that’s probably a major misunderstanding of entropy as a physical concept, but whatever.
That thing all the AI Risk techbros have been publicly wringing their hands about, the paperclip maximizer, does actually exist. They just never noticed because they expect it to be computer.
It’s called the publicly traded company and the paperclips are shareholder value.
I’ve had this idea rattling around in my head that when you strip out all the very human perceptions of our world, of money and political power and the like, what your left with is this: the profit motive is, physically, entropy maximization. Why, in the 21st century, is petrolium still our primary energy source? Min/Maxing effort. Entropy.
Why are we burning so much CPU time to solve math problems to scrape data to train a model with diminishing returns? Entropy.
I’m an idiot and that’s probably a major misunderstanding of entropy as a physical concept, but whatever.
That thing all the AI Risk techbros have been publicly wringing their hands about, the paperclip maximizer, does actually exist. They just never noticed because they expect it to be computer.
It’s called the publicly traded company and the paperclips are shareholder value.