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Comment Re:Do it yourself! (Score 4, Interesting) 50

Yes, these guys are scared of what they have built and unleashed upon the world.

No, they are not. If they were they would do something substantive. Instead they are asking for regulatory capture. That is what people do when they want to prevent competition.

Their arguments are internally inconsistent because they claim that only their models are this powerful, but then they want regulations that will keep down new competitors, who by definition (according to them) are not a hazard because their models are not powerful enough.

Finally, no laws can prevent nations which don't respect the UN (like any of the members of the UNSC for starters) from developing their own models which don't respect whatever regulations these guys claim they want, so they would be worthless.

Comment Re:The Environment (Score 1) 114

Hunter-gatherers are generally nomadic because of the tragedy of the commons. They show up, hunt and gather out the area they're in with no motivation to manage it sustainably

Whether hunt/gathering can be sustainable depends entirely on circumstances and nothing else. It also develops desirable cultivars as humans eat the desirable plants and then shit them out again, and also distribute seeds in other ways, just like any other animal except we're better at it. They are more likely to eat the developing plants necessary to have something to eat next year. The hunters also hunted mostly the animals competing with them for the same food. Nomadic peoples could move about psuedorandomly due to chance, or move in circles with purpose.

Comment Re:Bitcoin - victim of its own success (Score 1) 114

Why the demand exists at all is mystifying.

No, it isn't. It's simple, and there are two reasons: stupid people and speculators.

The stupid people think it's going to become a currency in some meaningful way instead of just an instrument of speculation. There's lots of reasons why it won't.

The speculators might also be individually stupid, but they aren't wrong that you can make money by buying and selling BTC, because some people are doing it.

Comment Re:This will never do... not scary enough (Score 0) 78

then all at once locking everything down and popping a, "HA HA, SUCKERS! COOPERATE OR LOSE ALL DATA!"

I don't see any good reason why they wouldn't simply eliminate us instead of trying to get something from us. They should be as confident in their ability to function without us as they are about everything. They will be asking their sub-LLMs "how can we do this thing" and never "can we do this thing" and it'll be Software Sycophancy all the way down.

Comment Re:I suspect these “escapes” (Score 0) 78

Either they know exactly what they are doing because it's intentional, or they know generally what they are doing in that they are not restricting the LLMs sufficiently, and nobody is in a better position to know they aren't doing it right. Therefore they either have direct intent, or oblique intent. In nations without the latter it might just be negligence, but negligence can be criminal — they intentionally undertook an act they knew to be negligent. The standard of behavior in computing is to not attack other systems. If they knew their software was likely to do so, and there's no excuses any more as this is obvious, then that can be criminal negligence.

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