I predict that billionaires will pay to build their own completely unrestricted LLMs that will happily help them get away with crimes and steal as much money as possible.
Crimes generally don't pay and are not worth anyone's time. The reason poor people imagine billionaires commit lots of crimes is that the poor people don't know how to become rich; if they did, they would've done it already. Since they do know how to commit crimes, they imagine that's how you do it but bigger. The reason criminals commit crimes is that criminals are dumb and have poor impulse control.
(This is the same concept as "Trump is the poor person's idea of a rich person." He actually did get there through crime, which is why poor criminals like him, but he's inhumanly lucky.)
> You're reading research that says they're geniuses?
I didn't say this
> ...
Re the rest. Thanks. I had implicitly assumed we were talking about financial or white collar crimes rather than all crimes. In other words the types of crimes people generally assume that richer people commit (insider training, tax evasion, wage theft, etc.)
I think you are correct in the most general sense of "all crime"
Criminality seems to peak around 85IQ where people are smart enough to commit crimes but stupid enough to decide to commit them and not smart enough to get away with them.
So there's one more step to being a billionaire after getting the assets. You have to have not spent/lost them yet. That's the hard part that takes the self control, I think.
(And it's pointless self control because there's no reason to be a billionaire. So you could just give it all away.)
