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If California passes SB-1047 as is (with computing limits and its current language around a "covered model derivative"), I will likely stay home this election.
Don't let the law's name fool you!
Choosing between two different forms of totalitarianism is not a choice at all.
If SB-1047 passes, it would represent to me that the Sam Bankman-Fried forces ("Effective Altruism") would have taken over the Democrat's view of technology—an end-of-the-world scenario if it lasted over this technological platform shift. It would be game over for humanity. I am not going to choose the fascists to try to avoid this scenario, but I am not going to feed it.
Having the only reasonable party of the world's largest superpower's largest economic state putting together a commission to regulate the use of computers to do matrix math based on computing size has cultural revolution vibes. If the commission based regulation on money spent to build models instead of computing size, this would be less explicitly bald-faced regulatory capture.
Ultimately, the reasoning for computing limits comes from Science Fiction and not from facts.
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How "Effective Altruism" turns evil: They say everything that sounds nice, but perspectives all come from incumbents with more funding than perspective. That an SBF figure would be in charge of the AI tech under the philosophical lineage of "Effective Altruism" is pretty much guaranteed.
To temporarily play the Effective Altruists' Sci-Fi-based "Super" AI Pascal Wager/Mugging reasoning game: The end-game for a closed-source, military-industrial complex scenario is the complete subjugation of the human race—probability ~100%. In the open-source Sci-Fi scenario, the scenario has some non-zero probability of ending the human race—which, given the heat-death of the universe, is a foregone conclusion.
The philosophical wing of "Effective Altruism" has always favored subjugation and longevity over quality of life and acknowledging that it may be over at some point.
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Returning to fact instead of fiction, our government has a fundamental misunderstanding of empiricism and the iterative process that follows fact instead of preconception. In short, there is no empiricism without iteration.
Let's not forget the fiasco that was the ACA website rollout--an ultimate failure to understand how essential iteration is to empiricism.
The following is also food for thought along the same lines:
Real cultural revolution vibes.
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Don't let the law's name fool you!
Choosing between two different forms of totalitarianism is not a choice at all.
If SB-1047 passes, it would represent to me that the Sam Bankman-Fried forces ("Effective Altruism") would have taken over the Democrat's view of technology—an end-of-the-world scenario if it lasted over this technological platform shift. It would be game over for humanity. I am not going to choose the fascists to try to avoid this scenario, but I am not going to feed it.
Having the only reasonable party of the world's largest superpower's largest economic state putting together a commission to regulate the use of computers to do matrix math based on computing size has cultural revolution vibes. If the commission based regulation on money spent to build models instead of computing size, this would be less explicitly bald-faced regulatory capture.
Ultimately, the reasoning for computing limits comes from Science Fiction and not from facts.
---
How "Effective Altruism" turns evil: They say everything that sounds nice, but perspectives all come from incumbents with more funding than perspective. That an SBF figure would be in charge of the AI tech under the philosophical lineage of "Effective Altruism" is pretty much guaranteed.
To temporarily play the Effective Altruists' Sci-Fi-based "Super" AI Pascal Wager/Mugging reasoning game: The end-game for a closed-source, military-industrial complex scenario is the complete subjugation of the human race—probability ~100%. In the open-source Sci-Fi scenario, the scenario has some non-zero probability of ending the human race—which, given the heat-death of the universe, is a foregone conclusion.
The philosophical wing of "Effective Altruism" has always favored subjugation and longevity over quality of life and acknowledging that it may be over at some point.
---
Returning to fact instead of fiction, our government has a fundamental misunderstanding of empiricism and the iterative process that follows fact instead of preconception. In short, there is no empiricism without iteration.
Let's not forget the fiasco that was the ACA website rollout--an ultimate failure to understand how essential iteration is to empiricism.
The following is also food for thought along the same lines:
Real cultural revolution vibes.
