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Re: Yann LeCun on how lobbying for AI regulation is abused

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How do you feasibly regulate AI? It's so easy to write a machine learning algorithm and the fundamentals for learning it are all over the place. YouTube tutorials, Udemy, Coursera, or university courses all teach it. Once you know how to write AI algorithms, all you need is a computer. The hard part is getting data to train your model, and it becomes a natural monopoly because the service that performs better will se…

Size. Ban exports of GPUs and other compute devices, task the CIA to track down leaks, bomb data centers you can't raid with the FBI. I think that's very unlikely to happen though.

Why do you think that unlikely? It happened with other tech we don't like proliferation of.

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In a surprising turn of events, capitalists are using their money to influence the government decisions, absolutely shocking!!!

It is not because it isn't unexpected that it should not be pointed out. Regulatory capture is very common. Does this mean we should not talk about it?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Size. Ban exports of GPUs and other compute devices, task the CIA to track down leaks, bomb data centers you can't raid with the FBI. I think that's very unlikely to happen though.

Why do you think that unlikely? It happened with other tech we don't like proliferation of.

It's not a lost cause if you want to advocate for it, it might be worth setting up a protest because not a lot of others appear to be doing so, see Holly Elmore and Rob Miles dialogue on AI Safety Advocacy at [0].

[0]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gDijQHHaZzeGrv2Jc/holly-elmo...

Re: Yann LeCun on how lobbying for AI regulation is abused

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In a surprising turn of events, capitalists are using their money to influence the government decisions, absolutely shocking!!!

It is not because it isn't unexpected that it should not be pointed out. Regulatory capture is very common. Does this mean we should not talk about it?

I was pointing out that lobbying is the standard in absolutely all fields where capitalist have interests.
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