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Its the Los Alamos all over again. But this time the atomic bomb will be able to decide by itself whether to incinerate human race.

• wolverine876 3y ago
  It's a very different. First, Los Alamos was a project of a democratic government, serving the people of the US and allies. OpenAI is a business that serves itself. During WWII, the US was in an existential war with the Nazis, also trying to develop nuclear weapons. If the Nazis had built it first, we may have been living now in a very dark world. (Obviously, it also helped defeat Japan.) On the other hand, there are threats if an enemy else develops capabilities that provide large advantages. At least part of the answer, I think, is that the US government needs to take over development. It already houses the world's top two, most cutting edge technology organizations - the US military and NASA - and there is plenty more (NIST, NIH, nuclear power, etc.); the idea that somehow it's beyond the US government is a conservative trope and obviously false. We don't allow private organizations to develop military weapons (such as missiles and nukes) or bioweapons on their own recognizance; this is no different.
  • dylan604 3y ago
    That same democratic government interned its own citizens to camps because they're heritage was of the same nationality as the opponent. Democratic governments are not the perfect thing you seem to make it out to be. There are plenty of other examples from pretty much any democratic goverment
    • wolverine876 3y ago
      > Democratic governments are not the perfect thing you seem to make it out to be. ? where did I say that?