Comment by bubblegumcrisis
8 hours ago
Here's a take on this. What if OpenAI is like Uber.
Uber comes in, destroys competition using venture capital, promises a utopia for drivers and riders - then - when the time is right, they use the hollowed landscape to charge more and control the market.
Maybe, it's not so smart to trust tech psychopaths when they say everything will "be better when we take over."
We can steelman Uber, or, less emotionally, but more productively, the idea of "dynamic pricing".
Dynamic pricing is already less controversial than "rent seeking" but Elizabeth Warren is already getting pushback from Pg who is getting pushback from the centre-left.
Your comment will likely fall off due to the HN voting algorithm, but I'd like to make a quick hattip to the idea of productive friction (eutripsis) which AI-augmented debates can produce.
You know how drunken debates with friends over trivia became pointless with the advent of Google and Wikipedia. The debates didn't get better. But they could.