Comment by janalsncm
7 hours ago
My impression at the time was they were perhaps overly cautious but this was a bunch of researchers who wanted to self-regulate. Anthropic didn’t exist, deepmind was also much less product-focused and relatively cautious. Chinese models weren’t really a factor either.
Government regulation was really not in the picture either in 2020 or 2021 tbh. The government was still trying to beat a pandemic. Some of the Biden admin eventually wanted to but it wasn’t very serious.
why are chinese models a consideration at all?
Parent post is saying there was no community of peer models, just some people figuring it out as they went and with lots of slack to go slow if they wanted
Oh it's the typical china race thing, we can't let the antithesis of the us be better than the us etc. American exceptionalism
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