I'm not sure how this ends (well) with anything less than biometric verification and hard rate limiting/penalties e.g. you prove to [job board] that you're a human, and you're limited to 5 job applications per week. A company could exclusively post to [job board] if they want applicants willing to bear some costs for applying. Unfortunately I think revealed preferences are for the opposite.
Great article! Makes me think that human touch will continue to become more valuable when it comes to media (writing, TV, movies, etc.). Patrons were willing to pay that much for Picasso's work, not only because his years of sacrifice produced great art, but because of the human story behind the painting and the painter.
“[T]he asymmetric ability of the laggards to make the leaders’ life a little bit worse…The burnt offerings that cost nothing and the burnt offerings that cost everything smell the same, because we make our offerings not to an omniscient God, but to fallible, overwhelmed humans.”
Gold, per usual. I wrote something similar that dovetails nicely with the idea of costless sacrifice: “AI turns mediocre into mass-produced and excellence into an arms race. Good-enough becomes automatic, while exceptional is pushed to superhuman heights. In the greatest Red Queen’s race of all time, standing still means sliding backward…
Call the coming shock the Gini Spike. But this inequality jolt is measured not only in dollars, but also cognitive autonomy…
In this brave new world, the disenfranchised lose not only their jobs, but also their ability to think independently, making them structurally dependent on AI systems and, by extension, those who control them.”
(Fun story - I started skimming this and got to "What I do know is that if I’d written it, I would have put in a lot more effort, agonized over it, sweat the details, tried to present the ideas in unexpected ways" and thought "Oh no, I must have made a big mistake in the analysis!").
I'm not sure how this ends (well) with anything less than biometric verification and hard rate limiting/penalties e.g. you prove to [job board] that you're a human, and you're limited to 5 job applications per week. A company could exclusively post to [job board] if they want applicants willing to bear some costs for applying. Unfortunately I think revealed preferences are for the opposite.
Great article! Makes me think that human touch will continue to become more valuable when it comes to media (writing, TV, movies, etc.). Patrons were willing to pay that much for Picasso's work, not only because his years of sacrifice produced great art, but because of the human story behind the painting and the painter.
“[T]he asymmetric ability of the laggards to make the leaders’ life a little bit worse…The burnt offerings that cost nothing and the burnt offerings that cost everything smell the same, because we make our offerings not to an omniscient God, but to fallible, overwhelmed humans.”
Gold, per usual. I wrote something similar that dovetails nicely with the idea of costless sacrifice: “AI turns mediocre into mass-produced and excellence into an arms race. Good-enough becomes automatic, while exceptional is pushed to superhuman heights. In the greatest Red Queen’s race of all time, standing still means sliding backward…
Call the coming shock the Gini Spike. But this inequality jolt is measured not only in dollars, but also cognitive autonomy…
In this brave new world, the disenfranchised lose not only their jobs, but also their ability to think independently, making them structurally dependent on AI systems and, by extension, those who control them.”
More: https://www.whitenoise.email/p/ais-raised-bar-paradox
Thanks for the link!
(Fun story - I started skimming this and got to "What I do know is that if I’d written it, I would have put in a lot more effort, agonized over it, sweat the details, tried to present the ideas in unexpected ways" and thought "Oh no, I must have made a big mistake in the analysis!").
😂 ha no notes on yours!