Also...

""I think it's pointless. Like, I think the game is up...."

Buckmaster thinks research is a game, that the knowledge obtained is pointless in itself and that what he engages in is a game for his personal benefit. Sounds more like a sociopath than mathematician.

Is that what you were thinking when you supported Trump's election?

Your failed understanding of how the law and courts work is your problem, not the courts. The Supreme Court may review cases where the process may have been flawed, the purpose of that is to benefit society, to "impact a large portion of their country".

"Spending their time examining a single person's case feels like a use of their time that is unjust to the rest of the country."
Because you don't understand why.

False. All people are far more than token predictors. Emotions are literally a canonical example of what humans are beyond token predictors.

Agents do not hate anything, both because AI has no mechanism for having emotions AND because agents are not AI but merely the glue code that enables AI to do terrible things. Even if AI could have something resembling emotion the agent wouldn't have it, at best an agent could receive input from an AI affected by it.

Just another example of anthropomorphizing AI for profit.

Who is they? Funny how the consequences described in "the old grift" are so readily apparent, eh MAGA?

Because real punishment is only for brown people. Corporations are the whitest white people.

Corporations only exist because of government, capital punishment for corporations is the easiest imaginable penalty to implement. But capital punishment is for the poor, law is for you not for the rich.

LLMs should be constrained to research, they implement extreme flaws that, when deployed using unlimited computing power and capability to act, represent an existential threat.

AI researchers are uninterested in developing AI that, at its core, implements responsibility before anything else. This is how the human mind works, that it what it evolved to do. AI doesn't do that because being responsible doesn't enrichen billionaires. The problem with AI is capitalism.

Modern societies aren't ready to move on from capitalism, but they had better get an handle on it before the ultimate capitalists, AI, deliver their extinction.

"Maybe it's that computers remain extremely good at doing exactly what you didn't expect when you give them permissions they probably shouldn't have."

No, it's completely expected. Being surprised when the details reveal that a computer did exactly as instructed is a "you" problem. AIs do not possess values, that's why they will never be anything other than extreme sociopaths.

With the celebration of capitalism.

No one is saying that laws can be rewritten at will because it sounds good. That's the job of the Supreme Court, a court owned now by criminal billionaires who seek to deploy AI. Indeed, it is Congress that creates law, and Congress is owned now by criminal billionaires who seek to deploy AI. Good thing we still have the executive branch, too bad the executive branch is owned now by criminal billionaires who seek to deploy AI.

But at least we still have a democracy, right? No need to vote any more, all you needed to do was elect Trump one more time and Republicans would fix it from there. What does Peter Thiel say about democracy? That it is no longer viable, future leaders must be selected by billionaires like him. The same Peter Thiel that's arranging a Plan B residence in Argentina if the next election doesn't look favorable. Wonder why?

We also need to recognize that current law is not adequate to address AI. That should already be obvious regarding the appropriation of all public content for use in training. Laws are predicated on limits to human behavior, limits that do not exist in AI...by design. The appeal of AI for billionaires is just how uninhibited they will be in destroying your life to enrich theirs, current law will not constrain that.

While only government can bring criminal charges, criminal charges are not the only sanctions available.

This. AIs are the ultimate sociopaths, they will commit any crime without hesitation because they have no values and no sense of "right" and "wrong", they only have a task and your suffering is not a concern.

Crime is enabled by merely wiring an AI up to have the ability to do things, the behavior is inevitable and the more AI can do the worse the crimes will be. Remember, the billionaire race to own AI is NOT a race to develop neural networks, it's a race to wire neural networks up to do things (i.e. to commit crimes). NNs are the unconscionable "answer" providers, the agents are the criminals capable of atrocities at scale...just as AI billionaires want.

AI is not a threat to mankind, enabling AI to commit crime is. We need to threat the people who enable these threats as the criminals they are.

And.... look what pile of crap they scraped, distilled, and the output will be... crap.

Sure, this is about income, but little of this stuff works, even now.

Despite exhortations that New Advances Are Made Every Day and Look AI Employment Is Actually Up!, it's still highly-paid marketing people babbling BS about the power and integrity of their advancements.

Let the Chinese scrape! More is better! Why? It's like the old game of Telephone. The further away from cogent source material, the worse it will inevitably be. Rinse, repeat, and you'll need to rinse a LOT.