Mark RiedlAltman would rather talk about regulation of sci-fi scenarios and not about the real world consequences of how AI can be used right now to do harm. Things like protection from discrimination, fairness, privacy, ability to receive remedy.
Ben@Riedl Would be surprised if that’s not strategic. He might have watched the Zuckerberg hearings and decided to just flood the zone with bs.
@b3n unclear. I think he might believe it albeit also be savvy enough to know it serves his purpose to use the event to drive his PR
@Riedl The mind virus is that strong in The Valley?
On the other hand I wonder how much of it is an inability to join another (non-SV) discussion. You don’t need AGI for „AI“ to kill people, control over cars and an „idea“ from anywhere that it’s cool to do so is enough. Take a functional definition of intelligence, intention etc. and some things do map. No „singularity“, but it’s a sleigh of hand to get rid of that…
@b3n the mind virus is very prevalent in SV.
@Riedl I became a quite strong twitter user during Covid. Looking back I’m as fascinated as terrified to see what it did to the way I saw the world - and I always stayed at at least arms length away from the earlier rationality movement and turned away from it before EA became big.
The ease with which self-selection and an algo are able to keep us in a stable self-organized narrative world is quite something. (“Culture”, duh, but that it doesn’t need any face to face…?)
@Riedl It was an insightful experience though. I often have the impression social scientists who only study it from afar mit much of the nuances of the experience, the chaos, weirdness, pure self organization.
It’s the same with LLMs which mashes it hard to shut off the line of Altman etc completely. Stuff like this is too alive to be understood just in theory. (Well, alive is a very bad word here of course ;))