Comment by firestell
3 days ago
Thats borderline aluminum hat conspiracy theory. Corporations arent a monolith, you think amazon is ever going to stop you from renting machines so that you cant run your AI models instead of buying from OpenAI? They have no horse in that race.
> you think amazon is ever going to stop you from renting machines so that you cant run your AI models instead of buying from OpenAI
We are talking about a future with near AGI systems. In such a future, people like you or me have no money to pay those services with because we are all unemployed and starving. And amazon has much bigger ambitions than just resting cloud compute to you. The economy as we know it doesn't really exist in that scenario and neither do the incentives and constraints that exist in our current economies.
People talking about intelligent systems a lot without considering the profound changes it would cause to everything.
There is no future where near AGI and traditional economies coexist. Near AGI is essentially a type of swan