@MatthewBerman: "inequality of compute will matter far more than open models in having personal superintelligence" This was my biggest …
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The Twitter thread discusses how inequality of compute may matter more than open models for achieving personal superintelligence, with a response from Sholto Douglas to Matthew Berman's views.
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“inequality of compute will matter far more than open models in having personal superintelligence”
This was my biggest issue with Mark’s essay, which I made an entire video about. Open models are only as good as the compute powering them. It is unclear to me how to achieve equality of compute.
Will read thanks!
I want to believe in universal basic compute. But ultimately the value of higher end tokens will dominate economical tokens.
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