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Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights?

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216 points lexandstuff | 1 comments | 05 Jul 25 21:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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zugi ◴[06 Jul 25 02:01 UTC] No.44477168[source]▶
Did the rise of fire, the wheel, the printing press, manufacturing, and microprocessors also give rise to futures without economic rights? I can download a dozen LLMs today and run them on my own machine. AI may well do the opposite, and democratize information and intelligence in currently unimaginable ways. It's far too early to say.
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1. marcosdumay ◴[06 Jul 25 16:33 UTC] No.44482102[source]▶
> Did the rise of fire, the wheel, the printing press, manufacturing, and microprocessors also give rise to futures without economic rights?

The rise of steam engines did. And the printing press and electrical engines did the opposite.

It's not hard to understand the difference, it's about the minimum size of an economically useful application. If it's large, it creates elites, if it's small, it democratizes the society.

LLMs by their nature have enormous minimal sizes, and the promise to increase by orders of magnitude.