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I think the response is that AI labs based their whole marketing/PR building the idea they are the 21st century Manhattan project. So they need to continuously
by dgellow 4mo ago
I think the response is that AI labs based their whole marketing/PR building the idea they are the 21st century Manhattan project. So they need to continuously justify the level of spending and commitment by showing how dangerous that is.
But is it really like nuclear weapons? I personally don’t buy into that framing at all. The idea that we have to push LLMs as far as possible, right now, or we are doomed is always stated or implied but not argued, and it’s a very loaded belief
- catigula 4mo agoYou could, in theory, use an unbounded GPT-6 level model to basically destroy the world economy for many years.
- pojzon 4mo agoGPT6 level model and astronomous amount of money to run it to do it. Ppl always say that like its „just run it on your laptop” thing. No its not and very few are even given right to be able to do it.
- dgellow 4mo agoHow do you destroy the world economy for many years with LLMs? It’s not enough to vaguely mention a sci-fi scenario
- catigula 4mo agoVia sophisticated cyberattacks, which we know are now possible on an unprecedented scale without nation state resources or capabilities. Have you… have you been following the news at all? This isn’t science fiction. It’s happening right now. AI models can execute massive cyberattacks autonomously.
- dgellow 4mo agoI’m very familiar with the domain, thank you. Could you please go the next step and actually explain what the destruction of the world economy for many years would look like, and cover why we should push to develop and make available such a dangerous technology _right now_, assuming your assumptions are true? You’re still vaguely gesturing at a risk and what is pretty much a science-fiction scenario
- jackb4040 4mo agoWell I came here to ask you if you think it's possible to destroy the world economy for a few hundred thousand, why no one is making it happen by now? But apparently you think it is happening. You are very deep in an echo chamber my friend. They've been doom marketing nonstop since 2022. You should make some hard, falsifiable predictions now so that when they don't come true you can reassess the trajectory you think this technology is on.