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“I'm not sure how nuclear armament is going to end, but one thing I do know is that I don't want a small number of giant countries to hold the reins.” Perhaps
by nilstycho 3y ago
“I'm not sure how nuclear armament is going to end, but one thing I do know is that I don't want a small number of giant countries to hold the reins.”
Perhaps you think this analogy is a stretch, but why are you sure you don't want power concentrated if you aren't sure about the nature of the power? Or do you in fact think that we would be safer if more countries had weapons of mass destruction?
- wolverine876 3y agoThe analogy would be corporations controlling the weapons of mass destruction.
- nilstycho 3y agoSure. I would feel much safer if only FAANG had nukes than if the car wash down the street also had one.
- wolverine876 3y agoI want my government to have them (or better, nobody), not FAANG or car washes.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 3y agoWith open-source models, this is just a dream. With closed-source models, that could eventually become the de facto state of things, due to regulation.
- Dig1t 3y agoinformation != nukes One directly blows people up, the other gives humans super powers. Giving individual people more information and power for creativity is a good thing. Of course there are downsides for any technological advancement, but the upsides for everyone vastly outweigh them in a way that is fundamentally different than nuclear weapons.
- __loam 3y agoComparing this to nuclear weapons is laughable.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 3y agoIs it still a "laughable" comparison if AI systems eventually become smart enough to design better nukes?
- __loam 3y agoYes it is. You can build a bomb many times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki with publicly available information. If the current spat of ai bullshit knows how to build a bomb, they know that because it was on the public internet. They can never know more. The hard part of building nuclear bombs is how controlled fissile material is. Iran and North Korea for example know how to build bombs, that was never a question.
- contravariant 3y agoI would feel very uncomfortable if the companies currently dealing in AI were the only ones to hold nukes. Not sure if this answers your question.
- logicchains 3y agoEmpirically, countries with nuclear weapons don't get invaded, so in that sense we'd expect to have seen fewer wars over the past few decades if more countries had nukes. Russia would probably never have invaded Ukraine if Ukraine had nukes.