The only people who seem to think that a world where only Anthropic and OpenAI can act as anointed gatekeepers to the most powerful models as the only rational path forward happen to work for these companies.
The entire world should not allow them to entrench themselves and build a business strategy around this and if open weight models and democratized access to the computing power to run them means these companies can’t exist then so be it.
I would rather watch the economy fall into a deep recession and hurt everyone to spare the entire world from this dystopian future.
Sorry Dario. You and your ilk don’t speak for humanity. Go cry on LessWrong if you feel so inclined, but people like these are the last people I would want yielding this power.
The best situation for us is the one where they exhaust themselves in unending competition. Neither the US nor China should ever be allowed to win, nor should OpenAI or Anthropic or any other individual corporation.
The second any one of them wins, oppression the likes of which we cannot even imagine will follow.
This is why this tech should not be left to the mercy of only a handful of labs. The only reasonable path forward is to leave it to the FOSS community. There will be big players of course, but the idea of locking this technology behind IP law and structural monopolies is untenable.
This also has the added benefit of the community pushing towards optimizations that increase efficiency and reduces the need for dedicated datacenters tasked with performing operations that doesn’t require it.
Computers should not misrepresent themselves as sentient creatures.
Computers are tools.
Seriously, I don’t understand why this is such a controversial take. Furthermore, it has already been demonstrated and disregarding this very basic fact has led to real-life harm. People have died over this.
Some of the basic tenets which I have built into each of my AGENTS| CLAUDE|Rules-of-operation.md files include:
Software is prohibited from using personal pronouns or presenting any verbiage implying sentience: it is not allowed to use terms implying it 'thinks' and cannot assert that is making 'informed decisions' or 'reccomendations'.
By restricting any chat response phrases to the statistical probabilities, differential analysis, and requiring a disclosure of raw metrics and factors actually provides more actionable results with less bandwidth for outright manipulation or deception.
When working with a workflow management agent, there is no "we" cooperating on a task. Additionally restricting the agents from using engagement seeking or prompting for next steps makes a significant improvement to the token utility budget and also prevents some drift in direction of progress.
I understand the model host companies' reasons for the 'human seeming' interactions ~ and they are simply stated, pernicious and self serving. Asimov's three rules need expanding to a larger set, which also needs strong reinforcement at many levels. Failure to do this will come with greater harm as systems' capabilities continue to expand. This has been demonstrated and is provable.
No. If you institute a culture that supports and encourages your subordinates to commit criminal acts in the furtherance of a private enterprise, the enterprise and its representatives should be held legally accountable.
A lot of problems with America could be fixed if the Department of Justice actually grew a pair and prosecuted people for committing criminal acts.
The fact that Les Wexner is not rotting in prison for facilitating Epstein and his friends exploits speaks volumes to the state of this country.
If corporations are legally people, they should be held to the same standard as natural persons.
As it stands, the “restitution” that is required is so insignificant that it’s treated as an additional tax. If there is no deterrence, there is no behavioral modification. If there is no behavioral modification, the law becomes unenforceable.
You’re absolutely right. I can just choose to not participate. If I’m lucky enough, enough people realize that they have the agency to not give into this, but if they don’t it doesn’t affect me at all.
Either way, I don’t care. The Internet has become so hostile to users that the only moral and rational choice is to not participate on platforms that have become so hostile that threatening legal action is the only way that they can protect their relevancy in facilitating social discourse.
Because if you break the law while acting as a representative of a company in the United States, the company is subjected to a deferred prosecution agreement, you get off with zero repercussions as the executive representative of the company, and the company you represent gets fined for 1% of annual turnover and gets to continue with business as usual.
There are laws, but if you’re rich enough, the laws don’t apply.
Boeing was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people. The people that facilitated this weren’t held responsible and were in fact compensated to the tune of 10’s of millions of dollars for doing their jobs terribly.
We won’t need teachers in ten years when the messiah’s of AI eliminate the need for real humans and their pesky needs for stupid things like..labor rights and human decency.
But we must continue because we’ll lose some sort of ideological Cold War with a country better positioned to win anyway. It’s all in the name of capitalism so the ends justify the needs.
Find a hobby that doesn’t involve computers. It’s the only thing that will keep you sane in these trying times.
Switch the work mindset off, turn your nose up at technology and go touch grass. I wouldn’t be recommending if it didn’t work for me.
If nothing else it helps reframe your perspective on the world which technology companies as of late have been trying to distort to enrich the dozen or so people at the helm to their own benefit..
I have come to the conclusion recently after trying to use computers as a hobby for years. Hobby coding, games, shows … anything with a screen just doesn’t provide the relief I need. Just takes a lot of time and leaves with a feeling of exhaustion
I always felt the mini-14 occupied like an uncanny valley position between the sensible utility of a lever action and the high fashion of an AR15. Granted, it predates the ubiquity of ARs by like 3 decade or so.
It's also New York legal which is rare for a semiauto that comes in 5.56. Ruger nailed it with guns that don't look scary. Don't have the mini-14 but do have the 10/22 and their PCC - both of which have all the functionality but none of the scary features.
I really do love the idea. It just comes down to the idea that a cell phone shouldn’t cost as much as a run down, but serviceable used car used to cost in a world where inflation hasn’t run rampant.
The solution, of course, is the idea of leverage. 12 easy installments, or just lease it bro which apparently we’re doing now..for cell phones. But this solution isn’t sustainable. I’d have rather Apple not brought it to market it at all.
I do the same thing. My concern is that if somebody makes the decision to spin up an open wireless network it’ll just try to connect to that and upload all of the telemetry it’s been holding onto.
I’m considering opening mine and taking a desoldering braid to both the RJ45 and wireless antenna solder joints. This might break the TV, but at this point if it does I’m ready to just throw it in the trash and find a commercial display.
I bought a television. I didn’t buy an invitation to be watched in the name of surveillance capitalism and until America gets its shit together with data privacy and consumer protection laws this is just going to continue happening.
I haven’t had a chance to watch this yet, but I did watch the preview and all of Steve’s latest work has been great so
I’m sure it’ll be great.
The entire world should not allow them to entrench themselves and build a business strategy around this and if open weight models and democratized access to the computing power to run them means these companies can’t exist then so be it.
I would rather watch the economy fall into a deep recession and hurt everyone to spare the entire world from this dystopian future.
Sorry Dario. You and your ilk don’t speak for humanity. Go cry on LessWrong if you feel so inclined, but people like these are the last people I would want yielding this power.
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