Regulatory moats making corporations in control of AI is a far greater danger to humanity than skynet or paperclip maximizer scenarios.
Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
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Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#302Reminds me of SBF calling for crypto regulations while running FTX. Being seen as friendly to regulations is great for optics compared to being belligerently anti-regulation. You can appear responsible and benevolent, and get more opportunity to weaken regulation by controlling more of the narrative. And hey, if you get end up getting some regulatory capture making competition harder, that's a great benefit too. Open…
Neither is it an indication of bad intentions and I don't even think SBF was dishonest, his general behavior doesn't exactly suggest he's some Machiavellian mastermind. This is always the first comment when someone in an industry talks about regulation but it doesn't change the fact that it's needed and they're essentially right regardless of what motivations they have.
You might say that any regulation is better than none, but bad regulation can be way more insidious and have unique dangers.
As a blunt analogy, let's say there's no law against murder right now. You and I both agree that we need a law against murder. But I have the ear of lawmakers, and I go sit down with them and tell them that you and I agree: We need a law against murder.
And then I help them write a law that makes murder illegal. Only, not all killing counts as murder, obviously. So if it's an accident, no murder. Self defense? No murder. And also if they are doing anything that "threatens" my business interests, not murder. Great, we've got a law that prevents unnecessary killing! And now I get to go ~~murder you~~ defend my business interests when you protest that the new law seems unfair.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
" his general behavior doesn't exactly suggest he's some Machiavellian mastermind." Come on! You don't get to the place he got to by accident. This requires careful planning and ruthless execution. He just faked being the nerdy kid who wants to do good and is surprised by the billions coming to him.
> his general behavior doesn't exactly suggest he's some Machiavellian mastermind >> don't get to the place he got to by accident You both agree. Bankman-Fried was a dumb Machiavellian.
being labeled a machiavellian may as well be a label for 'maliciously self-serving', unless you're referring to Machiavelli's work on the 'Discoures on Livy' -- and no one ever is referring to that aspect of Machiavelli when labeling people with the phrase.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#304AI is the new Linux
This is like if MS back in the day had called on congress for regulation of Operating Systems, so they could block Linux and open source from taking over
MS did try everything they could to block open source and Linux
They failed
Looking forward to the open future of AI
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#305regulation should go beyond commercial APIs. AI will be replacing government functions and politicians. Lawmakers should create a framework for that.
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#306I understand that some people may not agree with what I am about to say, but I feel it is important to share. Recently, some talented writers who are my good friends at major publishing houses have lost their jobs to AI technology. There have been news articles about this in the past few months too. While software dev jobs in the IT industry may be safe for now, many other professions are at risk of being replaced by…
ideally, machines replace ALL the jobs
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#307Gotta build that moat somehow
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#308Is this just to put up a barrier to entry to new entrants in the market so they can have a government enforced monopoly?
Also that he knows how inefficient and dumb government is. By the time the regulations are in place they won't matter one iota.
Think most of congress needs help from their grandchildren to use a computer or smartphone, pretty sure they don’t understand one bit of this.
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#309Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not against machine learning, I'm against regulatory capture of it. It's an amazing technology. It still doesn't change the fact that they're just function approximators that are trained to minimize loss on a dataset.
> It still doesn't change the fact that they're just function approximators that are trained to minimize loss on a dataset. That fact does not entail what theses models can or cannot do. For what we know our brain could be a process that minimize an unknown loss function. But more importantly, what SOTA is now does not predict what it will be in the future. What we know is that there is rapid progress in that domain.…
> For what we know our brain could be a process that minimize an unknown loss function.
Every process minimizes a loss function.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neither is it an indication of bad intentions and I don't even think SBF was dishonest, his general behavior doesn't exactly suggest he's some Machiavellian mastermind. This is always the first comment when someone in an industry talks about regulation but it doesn't change the fact that it's needed and they're essentially right regardless of what motivations they have.
" his general behavior doesn't exactly suggest he's some Machiavellian mastermind." Come on! You don't get to the place he got to by accident. This requires careful planning and ruthless execution. He just faked being the nerdy kid who wants to do good and is surprised by the billions coming to him.
Grifters have to believe their own Koolaid first before they can convince others.