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if you zoom out a bit the discourse around AI right now is very familiar: rapid pace of socio-technical change driving diverse populist anger & elite terror, existing regulatory apparatus uninterested in enforcement, industry feigns helplessness and proposes self-regulation. its facebook 8 years ago

& as was the case then (and still) there are real and serious reasons to be a "doomer," but the specific fears shaping elite response are misjudged and i am not optimistic about the shape of the policy that will emerge, if any

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I was thinking it's just a way to delay the inevitable collapse of people realizing frontier models are no longer developing at the claimed exponential rate. Just say we're doing it slower on purpose to avoid catastrophe. Just trust us, our private models are super smart and scary.