[flawsofar]

I dislike guns or arguments that because there are guns we need more guns. I expect we’re ideologically aligned on guns.

Except you’re supporting the point.

AI is more like the state with its army and high tech rifles than a predator with a pistol.

AI will deeply centralize power if computing resources and data availability dominate.

[timeon]

>> guns don't kill people. People do.

> I dislike guns or arguments that because there are guns we need more guns.

If people are ones doing the killing with guns, not guns in itself, it means that owners of guns are the ones responsible for killing. So it sounds like argument for regulating gun ownership. Like with driving license.

[flawsofar]

Guns make violence worse, so regulate them.

The prime actor in violence is a person, and that person still has the capacity for violence without a gun.

But let’s still prefer they don’t have one.

[JohnMakin]

> AI will deeply centralize power if computing resources and data availability dominate.

I'm sure the compute resources will remain centralized, but I'm growing increasingly doubtful of the current data landscape's ability to keep the data "clean" and not prone to Hapsburg AI scenarios or threat actors working to corrupt this data.