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Preparing for AI's economic impact: exploring policy responses

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Re: Preparing for AI's economic impact: exploring policy responses

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It's hard to read this without being cynical. How seriously would you take a proposal on car pollution regulation and traffic law updates written by Volkswagen?

> How seriously would you take a proposal on car pollution regulation and traffic law updates written by Volkswagen?

they more or less wrote the EU emission regulations

the only reason diesel cars were sold in huge numbers in the EU

Re: Preparing for AI's economic impact: exploring policy responses

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Much like the end of history wasn’t the end of history

LLM-Attention centric AI isn’t the end of AI development

So if they are successful at locking in it will be at their own demise because it doesn’t cover the infinity many pathways for AI to continue down, specifically intersections with robotics and physical manipulation, that are ultimately way more impactful on society.

Until the plurality of humans on the earth understand that human exceptionalism is no longer something to be taking for granted (and shouldn’t have been) there’s never going to be effective global governance of technology.

Re: Preparing for AI's economic impact: exploring policy responses

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post #3

It's hard to read this without being cynical. How seriously would you take a proposal on car pollution regulation and traffic law updates written by Volkswagen?

> How seriously would you take a proposal on car pollution regulation and traffic law updates written by Volkswagen? they more or less wrote the EU emission regulations the only reason diesel cars were sold in huge numbers in the EU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

Re: Preparing for AI's economic impact: exploring policy responses

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Much like the end of history wasn’t the end of history LLM-Attention centric AI isn’t the end of AI development So if they are successful at locking in it will be at their own demise because it doesn’t cover the infinity many pathways for AI to continue down, specifically intersections with robotics and physical manipulation, that are ultimately way more impactful on society. Until the plurality of humans on the eart…

> Until the plurality of humans on the earth understand that human exceptionalism is no longer something to be taking for granted (and shouldn’t have been) there’s never going to be effective global governance of technology.

Could you elaborate more on this? FYI fully agreed on the former sentences.

Re: Preparing for AI's economic impact: exploring policy responses

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Much like the end of history wasn’t the end of history LLM-Attention centric AI isn’t the end of AI development So if they are successful at locking in it will be at their own demise because it doesn’t cover the infinity many pathways for AI to continue down, specifically intersections with robotics and physical manipulation, that are ultimately way more impactful on society. Until the plurality of humans on the eart…

> Until the plurality of humans on the earth understand that human exceptionalism is no longer something to be taking for granted (and shouldn’t have been) there’s never going to be effective global governance of technology. Could you elaborate more on this? FYI fully agreed on the former sentences.

The bacteria that aren't antibacterial resistant eventually get replaced by those that are.

Maybe you are alcohol, gambling, and pornography resistant but maybe you have friends and family that aren't. Are you picking up their slack?

What circumstances make "going Amish" look, not just reasonable, but necessary for survival?

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