Comment by gavin_gee
2 years ago
This.
Every nation-state will be in the game. Private enterprise will be in the game. Bitcoin-funded individuals will be in the game. Criminal enterprises will be in the game.
How does one company building a safe version stop that?
If I have access to hardware and data how does a safety layer get enforced? Regulations are for organizations that care about public perception, the law, and stock prices. Criminals and nation-states are not affected by these things
It seems to me enforcement is likely only possible at the hardware layer, which means the safety mechanisms need to be enforced throughout the hardware supply chain for training or inference. You don't think the Chinese government or US government will ignore this if its in their interest?
I think the honest view (and you can scoff at it) is that winning the SI race basically wins you the enforcement race for free
That's why it's called an arms race, and it does not really end in this predictable manner.
The party that's about to lose will use any extrajudicial means to reclaim their victory, regardless of the consequences, because their own destruction would be imminent otherwise. This ultimately leads to violence.
> The party that's about to lose will use any extrajudicial means to reclaim their victory,
How will the party about lose know they are about to lose?
> regardless of the consequences, because their own destruction would be imminent otherwise.
Why would AGI solve things using destruction? Consider how the most inteligent among us view our competition with other living beings. Is destruction the goal? So why would an even more intelligent AGI have that goal?
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"nation state" doesn't mean what you think it means.
More constructively, I don't know that very much will stop even a hacker from getting time on the local corporate or university AI and get it to do some "work". After all the first thing the other kind of hacker tried with generative AI is to get them to break out of their artificial boundaries, and hook them to internet resources. I don't know that anyone has hooked up a wallet to one yet - but I have no doubt that people have tried. It will be fun.
> "nation state" doesn't mean what you think it means.
So what do you think it means? And what do you think the GP meant?
Feels annoying as fuck, bitching "your definition is wrong" without providing the (presumably) correct one.