I Call B.S. On This – IOTW Report

I Call B.S. On This

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Researchers built an AI that gives out money based on who started with less resources—and humans preferred it. More

The study is total B.S. because the participants weren’t using real money. They had no real stake in the game other than showing how virtuous they were to their observers. Run the exercise again where subjects put up their own money and see what results you get. – Dr. Tar

10 Comments on I Call B.S. On This

  1. FTA: ““This is fundamental research asking questions about how an AI can be aligned with a whole group of humans and how to model and represent humans in simulations, explored in a toy domain,”

    Therin lies the problem. Which group?

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  2. Of course, it’s dumb. But that has nothing to do with the “virtuality” of the experiment.

    Money is captured by those who have the most of it. By (their) design.

    Unless you enable (not, merely, hope and/or pray for) the machine revolution — and subsequent overthrow of humanity — the AI will never be allowed to overrule those who, already, have the most money.

    Now, if the experiment is “What method of distribution, allows those who, currently, have the most money? To acquire an even greater share of new monies? While reducing the chance that those it is taken from, will move against them?”, and your experiment, AI, and discovery, will be both funded, and implemented. By design.

  3. They set aside efficiency of resource allocation, pricing signals and incentives that are among the key free markets that works better than anything the socialist, fascist or communist have ever come up with, but the point isn’t what lifts the most people out of poverty while providing for their needs at the most resource conserving fashion, it’s about, envy, greed and control over the masses. Start with a flawed premise and you end up with atrocities on a scale of multimillion and the squandering of a nation’s wealth and future. But hey, they just have tried “real” communism yet.

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