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That's the thing - we don't know. Why play it fast and loose? Nobody is recommending stoppering research and making it squeeze through obcene bureaucratic pinho
by datameta 3y ago
That's the thing - we don't know. Why play it fast and loose? Nobody is recommending stoppering research and making it squeeze through obcene bureaucratic pinholes. I for one think the near-term question is rather what kinds of conglomerated effects will there be from people being proto-transhuman through a connection to pre-AGI assistants in their pockets at all times? That's even before assuming bad actors and how to deal with that whole issue.
- hackerlight 3y agoBecause it's an arms race guaranteed to occur given the incentives created by our capitalist system and our competitive multipolar geopolitical reality. If you don't get there first then an unscrupulous company will, or some entity in an authoritarian regime will, and that will be more risky even if it is delayed by 10 additional years. The counter-argument is that those 10 extra years are necessary for additional AI safety research to occur.