OpenAI board member Helen Toner published an article Altman took issue with.
She described it as “an academic paper that analyzed the challenges that the public faces when trying to understand the intentions of the countries and companies developing A.I.”
lol.
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Suffice it to say that’s not _all_ the article talks about.
The article is literally an analysis of different ways you can force AI companies (and governments using AI) to slow development, and recommendations on how they can be used and which are best.
For example (I’m not making this up) the “tying hands” method, where you encourage someone to make public declarations, then threaten “punishment,” such as being “subject to congressional investigation” or facing “disciplinary actions from the board of directors.”
But wait there’s more!
What is an example of an organization that deserves punishment, and should be subject to (as she calls them) “costly measures?”
OpenAI (where she sits on the board).
OpenAI released GPTs too early, and forced a “race to the bottom”
She closes by commending Anthropic who apparently did it right by _not_ releasing their model quickly, and recommends policymakers weave these “tools” of “costly measures” into their toolbelts.
Insane.
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> Wait, what’s happening?
I know. Crazy.
About a year ago we began working with a handful of companies to train their engineering teams to use the cutting edge of AI.
We were all completely blown away by what we saw. By what the smartest people wielding AI are capable of.
We believe that AI is the biggest force multiplier in human history.
These companies asked us to build something to train as many of these super-engineers as possible, and dedicated hundreds of millions of dollars to the effort.
“The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface. Elevator shafts, stair wells, unscreened windows and bridges will serve. Bridge falls into water are not reliable. In simple cases a private meeting with the subject may be arranged at a properly-cased location. The act may be executed by sudden, vigorous [excised] of the ankles, tipping the subject over the edge. If the assassin immediately sets up an outcry, playing the "horrified witness", no alibi or surreptitious withdrawal is necessary.
The Supreme Court's Chevron ruling may be most impactful things to happen to startups in a long time, in ways that people don't realize.
A thread:
From AP: "The court’s 6-3 ruling on Friday overturned a 1984 decision colloquially known as Chevron that has instructed lower courts to defer to federal agencies when laws passed by Congress are not crystal clear."
In other words, federal agencies could interpret unclear law in any way that they saw fit, and simultaneously "hold anyone accountable" for any law in the way that they desired.
As my father-in-law (who is a farmer) would say, “You’re eating your seed corn!”
Of all the insane things here, perhaps the craziest is having unrealized gains for high net worth individuals taxed in “nine equal installments” the first year, and in subsequent years in “five annual installments.”