On AI regulation and messaging

Post by a2ff6eeb0 » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:41 PM UTC

EMIRELADERO wrote: post #286

a2ff6eeb0 wrote: post #280

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Iran just mass murdered their protesters earlier this year, and they needed to convince humans to pull the trigger. It didn't seem to be that hard for them to justify. It's probably a lot easier to convince the military AIs we're building to do it. I don't particularly like the situation, but I plan to do what I can to be on the winning side. The world is going to be what we're all in on building, and for people on t…

Not comparable at all. The Iranian protesters are/were a minority group within a country that itself makes up 1.1% of humanity. I'm talking about morality here, not practical ability. The ultrarich have their circle of friends and family, who themselves have their own social circle, on and on until suddenly you're not looking at wealthy people anymore. Six degrees of separation and all that. How many people in the so…

Post by mrhottakes » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:44 PM UTC

dist-epoch wrote: post #247

mhaberl wrote: post #213

> We are however doing our best to fix this: Anthropic is ramping up its efforts very quickly in biology and medicine, and we hope to have incredible results in the coming years and some early glimmers in the coming months. When we’ve actually accomplished something real, the whole world will hear about it, as loudly as possible, you have my word on that. 1. He is giving his word that if he cures cancer, he will brag…

> is that planned for a few days before the IPO Anthropic is the fastest revenue growing company in the history of Capitalism. I don't think they need any more marketing for investors.

Post by mrhottakes » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:46 PM UTC

perpetualpear wrote: post #164

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And maybe don't allow the military to use your AI WHEN YOU CAN'T TELL WHETHER IT WAS INVOLVED IN THE KILLING OF HUNDREDS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN

I might've been bamboozled, but I recal that happening due to outdated satelite images, not a mistake of the AI. Thus, a human would've likely made the same mistake.

Post by 7373737373 » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:48 PM UTC

yoavm wrote: post #271

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How intelligent and autonomous does a murderbot have to become before you stop absolving its creator and seller from any responsibility?

LLM are not murderbots simply because its a very niche use case. They provide some kind of general intelligence, that many of us use daily to vibe code HTML. If the fact that LLMs are also sometimes used to automate killing then humans should be considered murderbots as well, since few of us engage in the activity of killing (and are autonomous & intelligent). Send the blame to our "creator" then?

Post by jacquesm » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:49 PM UTC

shaganer wrote: post #272

bko wrote: post #193

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> First, cancer research charities are some of the most well funded on this planet Maybe I'm overly cynical, but I think charities exist to exist. They don't have a strong incentive to actually deliver on their mission. Everyone at the org may be fully bought it and obviously want to cure cancer, but as an organization it would fail to deliver on the promise. Like most organisms, their actual purpose is to continue t…

Charity doesn't stop at the cure, but continues to shift with progress. If a big public charity is able to cure a cancer type (eg. lung cancer), then it's next aim would be to try cure another cancer type. Let's just say they are somehow able to cure all the cancers, and therefore they cured cancer, then there's distribution of the cure, with a focus on 1st world but then it would have to go to developing nations too…