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Big tech companies aside, the broader tech community did not fail to engage on the digital parenting problem. We could've solved this problem long ago before anyone even noticed it…

We should not ignore it, but firmly dismiss it with reason. The recent Illinois law that applies to all Internet-capable operating systems is blatantly unconstitutional. People sho…

This is worse than the California one. Since this applies to all Internet-capable operating systems, it's effectively forcing people to utter their age bracket in order to communic…

While this is true, it's not an all-or-nothing game. A little bit of countersurveillance is better than none, even if you're not that savvy. We can win by gradually raising the per…

That's a somewhat accurate description, and you could even replace "society" with "universe". But what I'm defending is precisely the apparent feeling of autonomy, which is just ca…

It's not just the government. The government sneakily adds stuff they think only they can exploit, but skilled non-state actors can exploit hardware features regardless of whether …

For better or for worse, this is valid criticism. Ensuring alignment to the human individual is not even a software-only problem, and I suspect gwern doesn't realize this yet. Your…

This is the correct intuition. The problem can be solved with antitrust by forcing hardware vendors to ship their devices without an operating system . Then the market will deliver…

> So saying "we should allow unfettered access to the internet" or even "it's the parents' responsibility" is naive, dismissive and has failed. The market failure to provide an ade…

You compare LLMs to spellcheckers, but they are clearly very different in capability at this point. These agents are becoming more human-like and "just a tool" is no longer a fair …

Correct observations. But have you wondered why those solutions are ineffective? Kids nowadays use phones and tablets for the most part. They don't even know how to use a computer …

Bio-digital integration will tighten in the meantime. I suspect neural interfaces will have blurred the line between my model and my brain by the time the model is wildly superinte…

> It sounds like you believe that big labs are irresponsible. Wouldn't this support the notion of creating a pause mechanism for use in an emergency, as advocated in the OP? Irresp…

> Human intelligence has been quite harmful to the species we've driven extinct! AI intelligence could be similar for our species. I don't think this central premise is true, with …

We have to stop comparing nuclear weapons with general intelligence. They are nothing alike. Nukes are weapons of mass destruction that can only destroy or deter. Intelligence is d…

Is this a bot? As soon as I linked to this thread in another comment, you show up bootlicking the establishment. Forgive me if you're an actual user, but your account has basically…

It's ironic that the top reply to a comment about quality of discourse on this site is an ad hominem. Most people here take AI progress very seriously judging by the number of post…

There is constructive discourse, but this kind of commentary doesn't get to the top: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078376 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077753 It'…

I often see this parallel being drawn between general intelligence and nuclear weapons, and you seem genuinely concerned, so I'll try to explain why this concern is misplaced. Inte…

> It teaches it to mimic all possible humans, inferring what sort of persona to take depending on the context. This is of course correct, but that's exactly what I meant by aligned…

You claim the pretraining distribution is not good enough, but provide no alternative methods that are better. The pretrained model is currently our best approximation of humanity'…

I do seriously want general intelligence to be widely available with no guardrails, and there are very good reasons for this. If you want to read about it: https://news.ycombinator…

On Dario's concerns: It is very relevant whether frontier capabilities and research continue to be diffused in the open, because leveling the intelligence playing field empowers or…

Thanks to your comment, I realized I've not successfully refuted Hume. The possibility of a truth value change is not a new piece of info about the future. We did arrive at it by d…

Article correctly identified symptoms but not root cause. Course correction is desperately needed, but a luddite movement is not the way. If this movement gains traction, it will p…