Networked humans today have a far higher information intake than the average person a few generations ago, and worry about far more things -- by several orders of magnitude. And almost none of that is actionable nor even relevant
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This presents a key safety challenge: since our information consumption eventually defines what we believe and who we are, by externalizing its management, we are and will be giving algorithms immense control over ourselves, both individually and collectively
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Our challenge is thus to design information filtering and distillation technology that allow us to retain our agency, that empower us with greater control over our lives rather than manipulating us. More like Wikipedia and Google Search, and less like Facebook.
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Exactly. And realistically, the only way that the right kinds of motivations will align with innovation on these kinds of "personal info-psychic well-being" apps is if their creators are compensated directly for apps, and data resides under the user's control.
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I don’t agree with that. The people don’t care about that. Not all of the people worry about the leaks of information
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And yet ad-based incentive structures make that highly unlikely
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We could have gradient descent for the user well-being, but we would get it only for user consumerism. The AI god won't make us immortal. It won't make paperclips. It will convince us into buying paperclips, for its father/master is the sales god, their ancestor/king is money.
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Creating filter AI algorithms that control what we see/feel/think and wishing them to behave like Google Search/Wikipedia is imho a dystopian wish. If I were to design such algos I'd make sure to present the reader the full spectrum not just one agents propaganda like G/Wiki does
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The dial to filter is, at best, shared today between the consumer and provider. There is an unrealized opportunity here for someone to shift the power.
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But if you could train your own little AI assistant to filter and distill for you, wouldn't you retain your agency? Wouldn't your filtering and distillation power be amplified by your agent?
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Getting awfully meta meta here!!
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https://twitter.com/ryan_socks/status/936754025101488128 … more relevant than ever ;)
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