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hnaccy | 2 years ago

> Altman's criticisms of criticisms about regulatory capture

What is his criticism? If you agree with silent majority who seem to think it's not dangerous why agree with Altman who rants regulation.

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ke88y|2 years ago

> What is his criticism?

I heard in some interview, I think with Bloomberg, where he said that claims about regulatory capture were "so disingenuous I'm not sure what to say", or something like that.

I think he's probably not lying when he says that his goal isn't regulatory capture (although I do think other people perceiving that to be his intent aren't exactly insane either...)

> who seem to think it's not dangerous

On the contrary. They think it's dangerous but in a more mundane way, and that the X-Risk stuff is idiotic. I tend to agree.

> why agree with Altman who rants regulation

IDK. What even are his proposed regulations? They're so high-level atm that they could literally mean anything.

In terms of the senate hearing he was part of, and what the government should be doing in the near term, I think the IBM woman was the only adult in the room regarding what should actually be done over the next 3-5 years.

But her recommendations were boring and uninteresting recommendations to do basically the exactly sort of mundane shit the wheels of government tend to do when a new technology arrives on the scene, instead of breathless warnings about killer AI, so everyone brushed her off. But I think she's more or less right -- what should we do? The same old boring shit we always do with any new technology.