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The only good arguments I see against open weight AI also apply to closed AI. And regardless, the box is open, nobody can stop it even if stopping it was a good
by deaton 3mo ago
The only good arguments I see against open weight AI also apply to closed AI. And regardless, the box is open, nobody can stop it even if stopping it was a good thing.
- vouaobrasil 3mo agoIt could be stopped, if there were a social movement large enough to make AI a taboo.
- deaton 3mo agoSure but Orange Catholicism hasn't quite caught on yet.
- srmatto 3mo agoThat hasn't worked for Climate Change and in my opinion it's for the same reason: money.
- vitalyan8184 3mo ago[dead]
- throw1234567891 3mo agoYeah, like those 5g masts destroyed around the world because they spread covid. Loonies.
- vouaobrasil 3mo agoA lot of people have responded with flippant remarks because they have no serious rebuttal.
- OkayPhysicist 3mo agoGood luck with your Butlerian Jihad.
- iamnothere 3mo agoExactly, just like taboos solved racism
- vouaobrasil 3mo agoI think they've certainly diminished racism, which is a good thing. Whether it can be solved is another question entirely. I doubt it because of human nature.
- iamnothere 3mo agoI disagree. I’ve actually seen more open racism since the taboo on racism became stronger. In a pluralistic society, they are overrated as a way of influencing social behavior. You’d have to completely eliminate the faction who disagrees with the taboo.
- no-name-here 3mo agoThere are a number of distinctions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029303 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029303