<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I am so jealous of you. You will get to see a lot of these changes and I won't. Oh well. I once told Mama that she lived through the times from horse and buggy to the Moon landing and ten years more, and those were probably the greatest changes that have occurred in human history in that short a time. But maybe not. Maybe I have. Maybe you will. Can positive acceleration just keep on keeping on? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 12:16 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-2134933144749116047"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-2134933144749116047WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 9 June, 2023 9:39 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] chatbots and marketing: was RE: India and the periodic table<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Taiwan has the best, eh Spike? Well, what the Hell happened to industrial espionage? Enormous dollars are at stake and there are still secrets? Get a spy. Pay him 50 million dollars - cheap at that price. Why take over a country? (also, a tetrabyte would be part of a fish) <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">bill </span><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Industrial espionage steals the intellectual property in the factory, but does not steal the actual factory. Taiwan has the best and most electronic manufacturing on the scale necessary to have the best and fastest GPUs. America knows *<b>how</b>* to design those GPUs and how to build the factories, but the right combination of tax structure and talent base came together in Taiwan, which made that country ground zero for the manufacture of the most advanced computer chips in the world.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">But since you ask, I propose a thought experiment sir.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Picture in your mind a working person in the USA, or Europe. OK, do you have your mental image? Did you picture a guy in an office, perhaps in front of a computer most of the day? Plenty of us made our living or still make our living that way.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">That was part 1, now part 2, consider a worker on the continent of Africa, working. Did you picture a guy grubbing around collecting lithium ore in horrific conditions to satisfy the insatiable appetite in foreign lands for the stuff? <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">If you did, then, good for you. You are aware of where we are in human history: the west is charging ahead with clean and green technologies, by compelling people in less fortunate parts of the world to grub around, dig up their land, gather the lithium and other minerals we need to purr around in our clean green cars.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">OK then, part 3 of the experiment if you are still reading down this far.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Picture specialized chatbots which are trained on something very specific, such as the complete US tax code. Printed out and bound into books, that tax code on a shelf spans the left elbow to the right wing tip on a typical tall man, so can estimate about 1 to 1.5 meters of book, perhaps two billion words. A chatbot could read all that, and become a soft accountant. It could be a five dollar alternative to hiring an accounting form. It might be able to train the soft accountant to read all your receipts, figure out what is deductible, fill out your tax return. If so, the tax accounting business is headed out the door, and if that can be done with specialized chatbots, so can nearly everything done currently in an office in front of a computer in part 1 of your thought experiment.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Conclusion: the guy who owns the capacity to manufacture the hardware to make those bots owns the planet.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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