Sorry for not trying to be inventive but merely maybe contrarian<p>I've come to think that one unequivocal upside of "affordable ASI" would be to bring about a world of discourse where discursers would hesitate to think of (not to mention carry) themselves as experts.<p>[Perhaps it reminds me of Le Guin's thoughts on tech X power, especially as represented in <i>The Dispossessed</i>]<p>it would seem not just rude, but even snide, to bias your interlocutor towards not carefully verifying the dependencies of your arguments<p>Widely dispersed and affordable AI would help because it (certainly, imho) makes the alternative, "trust but verify", so easy<p>And it would be strictly easier than using cloud chatGPT to sow misinformation because there are extra steps in that (--- nonsockpuppets would be inclined to verify the gist of what they are about to say as indeed misleading)<p>[As a bonus, this seems compatible with TFA, non-ideological anti-anti-intellectualism, and<p><a href="https://schipper.ai/posts/technical-leaders-should-have-the-largest-ai-exhaust/" rel="nofollow">https://schipper.ai/posts/technical-leaders-should-have-the-...</a><p>if we default to assuming that technical leaders should be different (not more, not less) than expert engineers
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