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Was it the norm for Trump's team to hand-select the specific customers who get access in the staged rollout, and to choose the date of wide release?
by wahnfrieden 4mo ago
Was it the norm for Trump's team to hand-select the specific customers who get access in the staged rollout, and to choose the date of wide release?
- postalcoder 4mo agoThe AI companies were all asking for the government to regulate them. The government is doing what the companies asked for them to do. You can argue that, by government, they meant some legislative process, but I'd argue that regulation via bad executive order is much better than regulation via bad legislation because the former is tractable. I say this as an EO minimalist.
- wahnfrieden 4mo agoOk so to be clear you agree this has not been the norm. It seemed like you were clarifying your original message but it was a change of topic, from "this has been the norm" to "this hasn't been the norm but they got what they were asking for" (or what they deserved if not exactly what they asked for). I'll dip out of that conversation.
- postalcoder 4mo agoWhat an unpleasant form of discourse.
- CamperBob2 4mo agoWelcome to HN. There's cake in the breakroom.
- pu_pe 4mo agoYou moved the goalposts. The government controlling what openai can and cannot do is completely different than they gating access out of their own volition.
- postalcoder 4mo agoMy comment was in response to the parent's original comment: "Ok so you agree this has not been the norm," which didn't give me much to respond to. It has been edited since.
- wahnfrieden 4mo agoChanging topics when the original statement was pointed out to be wrong is the real unpleasantry
- mptest 4mo ago> The AI companies were all asking for the government to regulate them pretty shallow take. they asked for sensible, transparent, tech aware regulations. this is not that.
- postalcoder 4mo ago[dead]
- ctoth 4mo agoYeah pretty sure we had a whole bruhaha ~250 years ago about this question of where precisely power belonged. I for one think we mostly got it right then and would be reluctant to shift the power back to the individual sovereign and away from the people.
- pasc1878 4mo agoIn this case how have people got power it seems that Trump has all the power here
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- simsla 4mo agoThere's a pretty big difference between "we need laws and regulations" and "let Trump do whatever he feels like today."
- postalcoder 4mo agoWhat are the proper laws and regulations? Can you point me to a proposed framework that you believe is most correct? I have no idea how this stuff should be regulated. I do know that any sort of comprehensive legislation at this point in time has a much higher chance of being a bottleneck to innovation than an easily reversible white house directive. Of all the terrible things to come from the odious Trump administration, them saying "hey, can we make sure these models aren't dangerous?" is one of the least bad things they've done.
- harimau777 4mo agoThat's not what Trump's doing. He's just trying to pick and choose winners so that he can reward his allies and punish his enemies.
- LastTrain 4mo agoIf you don’t see a difference between a well thought out & debated policy stance and arbitrary enforcement without justification I’m not sure what to say.
- wqaatwt 4mo ago> can we make sure these models aren't dangerous They can’t, though. The models might or might not be too dangerous but the people running the US federal government are too incompetent and/or corrupt to do anything useful about that.
- wrs 4mo agoAnthropic submitted a long, thoughtful framework proposal, which everyone seems to be ignoring in favor of hot takes like “they asked for this!” No they didn’t, not at all.