PwnallthethingsOpenAI's statement on "governance of superintelligence" is basically "in our humble opinion you should regulate AI, but not *our* company's AI which is good, but instead only imaginary evil AI that exists only in the nightmares you have after reading too many Sci-Fi books, and the regulatory framework you choose should be this laughably guaranteed-to-fail regulatory framework which we designed here on a napkin while laughing" https://openai.com/blog/governance-of-superintelligence
Like ... having been involved in major governments trying to set up coordinated action through multilateral organizations, my careful and considered response to any tech bro who says "major governments around the world could just set up [X]" is "lol, lmao"
I was going to say it's about the same amount of work trying to upgrade your biplane into a jumbo jet while you're flying it, but then it occurred to me that's actually considerably *more* tractable.
John Vert@Pwnallthethings Sounds like they could really use the help of a superintelligent AI to oversee all the different government organizations.
Karl Habermas@jvert @Pwnallthethings And keep track of all the paperclips.
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Noah Cook@Pwnallthethings Like repairing the Titanic, with the engines still running full steam, because drydock? What's a drydock?
Or at least, that's how I describe trying to reform the American healthcare system, which might be a slight outlier...
Viss@Pwnallthethings i saw a talk at a con once where a guy who was ex IC said the majority of any op they do is by a very large margin, mostly documentation and bureaucracy. like taking weeks to get authorization to book a flight
@Viss Yeah, the baseline amount of work required to even be able to even start doing the basic job stuff in the job title is totally nuts.
@Pwnallthethings i barely know anything myself, but when i see regular people screaming shit about people tailing them and planting bugs in their houses, i just chuckle because my first thought is always "if they had ANY IDEA how much that would cost, and how many people it would take"
@Viss it takes a village hahaha
Ben Aveling@Viss @Pwnallthethings these same ppl, they have mobile phones? Alexa? Ring? They use the Internet?
TheHerpaDerpaSherpa@Viss @Pwnallthethings this person has to be US ... it's not as bad elsewhere. But your point stands for sure