Have to keep in mind that to a lot of folks it's almost 'bitcoin === cryptocurrency', where anything cryptocurrency must be bitcoin related. Not just this field, but investing in general.

Companies have gotten big boosts just by having a similar symbol to something in the news that they had nothing to do with.

... for "I want to program for a living.". CS is way more than that, but that was the reason many people chose it. Since AI now can code as good as humans and explain to a human what it's doing, studying CS to program is less of a thing now.
CS and it's"applied math"thing won't go away, but that was less people will study it sounds quite plausible IMHO.

When did this happen? Citation, please.

You are aware that Joe Biden, while seemingly a nice enough guy, was wildly unpopular as a leader, including among the left? It was the Democrats, after all, who convinced him not to run for a second term.

What's being alleged here is closer to price fixing, which is also an antitrust violation. Hypothetically, let's say four major automakers got together and said, "We all know we have access to the latest in brake technology, but we collectively agree not to deploy it until two years from now," presumably for business reasons. That kind of collusion is illegal.

Everybody seems to be complaining ... although that's nothing new. Some people hate Gnome, others hate KDE.

So I ask you (everybody): Is anything good? Cuz we ain't gonna have the Year of the Linux Desktop without a UI. Do we all switch to Enlightenment?

I want to agree with you, and appreciate the spin of a 'safety standards committe'.

However, they could make the argument that an agreement to 'slow down' at current prices, means an agreement to keep prices high rather than someone developing an advancement to make it cheaper.

That said, it's completely counter to the trend where they have been making it more and more expensive, and doesn't seem to be interest in more competitive pricing anyway.

We won't have 'our' side under any better control than the other side. Essentially kids playing with landmines, triggering all sorts of unexpected mess while playing with the technology.

I don't even know if you want to consider the likely ones calling the shots 'our' side. For example, a quote from Larry Ellison on AI augmented surveillance:
“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on."

Note the pronoun choices, *their* best behavior (not *our* best behavior) because *we're* constantly recording. Clearly his natural go to language has already set up an 'us versus them' scenario that puts the average citizen on the 'other side' compared to wherever Larry is sitting.

What's worse is that it came up at a time when everything else is hitting economic headwinds. It has become the one shaky pillar vaguely holding up the entire stock market. Hence Trump's panic over the only saving grace of his remaining decent economic indicator being put at risk.

The theory seems to be about the coordination. You can't sue that McDonald's refused to use some better ingredient, but if all the burger joints jointly announced they were all working together to refrain from using that ingredient, then you might have something.

This is precisely why they needed the governmental regulation they asked for, when they 'self-regulate', it can come off as anti-competitive.

Of course, plenty of examples of industries collaborating, they just generally need some spin that has it as a collaboration to improve the industry in some way. So here the pitch could be that they are collaborating to improve safety, and the 'slowing down' is a natural consequence of the improved safety.

Exactly. Most of us can recall an era where script kiddies had similar unreasonable success even if they had no actual skill or thinking behind the attacks. Just canned toolkits designed around known vulnerabilities, common password databases, understanding of common, bad security practices, and bundled up in easy to use harnesses.

So whether it not an agent can actually "think" or is just putting together a potentially workable narrative of how hacks can happen and running it against real world targets doesn't matter too much. If you wired up the script of Terminator to the real world and it somehow launched nukes, it wasn't that skynet was thinking, it was that the systems folded easily to a movie script. Either way the distinction would hardly matter.

To the extent lack of thought may matter, compromising security is a use case that heavily favors AI systems that repeatedly "get it wrong", as it can have nearly limitless tries to get it right and even if it utterly fails, no one will really notice or write about it. It only takes a few successes, even if rare, to be pretty critical.

Well, one scenario is letting the hype get ahead of the capabilities, and do the 'AI store' experiment, but for real with responsibility for something actually important.

Another is that it is far easier to just screw things up than it is to make things work. I may not have it in me to make a house of cards, yet I can trivially even accidentally destroy a house of cards someone else built without a whiff of understanding.

The assessment of the capabilities based on bottom line certainly is subjective, which is precisely why Jensen Huang is so aggressively gung-ho about we must do everything we possibly can to spend more money on nvidia stuff. The motivation for Anthrophic seems either they have legitimate concerns or are looking to rationalize a plateau after promising the world. It certainly doesn't serve their bottom line to slow down otherwise.

Your comment is pants.

Surely you know that's an absurdly dismissive opinion? North Korea has the capacity to gain access to anything anyone else does, especially if it comes from China.

... steam age but modern times turns out to be way more efficient and reliable.

Golly jeepers gee wizz - Who would've thunk?

It keeps the head warm and improves mental performance. A warm head performs at a better rate. Like a warmed up body or the people doing hot yoga. I'm a more or less bald ADHD candidate and I wear buffs as "spare hair" and observe a similar effect.

There's a reason we keep ill and injured people warm.

Bottom line:
This sounds plausible IMHO.