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It's too bad companies big and small didn't come together and successfully oppose the passage of the DMCA.
No snark, but what's wrong with the DMCA? From what I understand it, they took the idea that it's infeasible for a site to take full liability for user-generated copyright infringement (so they granted them safe harbor), but that they will be liable if they ignore take down notices.
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Well this is exactly why there's a minimum scale of concern. Below a certain scale it's less complicated and answers are more predictable and alignment can be ensured. Bigger models how do you determine your confidence if you don't know what's it's thinking? There's already evidence in o1 red-teaming, the model was trying to game the researcher's checks.
Yeah, but what if you take a stupid, below the "certain scale" limit model and hook it up to something important, like a nuclear reactor or a healthcare system? The point is that this is a terrible way to approach things. The model itself isn't what creates the danger, it's what you hook it up to. A model 100 times larger than the current available that's just sending output into /dev/null is completely harmless. A s…
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California is the largest recipient of federal money. https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-rely-the-most-on-... (I know by population it will be different, but the argument here is around 'one of the the biggest' which is not a per capita statement.) > Objectively, there are many states that are far worse off in any key metric You can apply the same logic to USA. USA is one of the biggest most successful countr…
California is also the largest source of Federal revenue: https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-gross-collectio... As your link shows, a much smaller %age of CA government revenue comes from the federal government vs most other states; in that sense California is a net contributor rather than a net taker.