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Comment by wahnfrieden

10 days 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?

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postalcoder  10 days ago

The 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.

  • simsla  10 days ago

    There's a pretty big difference between "we need laws and regulations" and "let Trump do whatever he feels like today."

    • postalcoder  10 days ago

      What 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.

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  • wahnfrieden  10 days ago

    Ok 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.

  • mptest  10 days 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.

  • ctoth  10 days ago

    Yeah 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.