Proponents may be hedging by running contradictory strategies simultaneously
Coming out as an "AI safety person" who thinks Bernie's data center moratorium proposal is a bad idea but that public dividends from AI companies is generally a good idea!
“Oh yes, I Take AI VERY Seriously, and now let me present you my five point plan to use the AI industry’s profits to finance enormous new social welfare programs while also literally banning the construction of the facilities the AI industry requires to make profits.”
Users in the replies insult accelerationists debating AI taxes and data center bans as dumb and out of touch while expressing hostility toward AI itself.
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if there were such a thing as a prominent accelerationist politician, and he proposed policies so wildly contradictory as this, safetyists would be all over the place declaring that his incoherence signaled strategic unseriousness. Indeed, Trump kind of is one, and safetyists do this all the time (I even agree sometimes that the administration’s policy strategy has fundamental incoherence!). I think there has been a remarkable willingness by safetyists to lower their epistemic standards because of these faux amis.
@gaypulp @deanwball All fiction borrows from other works, though
@gaypulp @deanwball When I use my library card am I stealing from the authors?
@deanwball @beffjezos It’s the same people that want to tax billionaires while saying there shouldn’t be billionaires.
@deanwball Data stolen from the public should be used for the public good.
@staffcommenter @gaypulp @deanwball You’re talking to AI.
@deanwball literally my thoughts from today 😵💫
@deanwball Don't threaten me with a good time! There's nothing good about AI
Conversely if your primary concern is rogue AI x-risk (mine is not) I think you should probs not support interventions that create strong incentives for govts to profit from AI growth, in the same way countries with oil funds are disincentivized to transition to green energy.
Coming out as an "AI safety person" who thinks Bernie's data center moratorium proposal is a bad idea but that public dividends from AI companies is generally a good idea!
@staffcommenter @deanwball Non-fiction is a little different. You can't copyright a fact. But things like Code or Fiction are different those do get protections.
@staffcommenter @deanwball Technically, sorta. But that's not the point. If you took that book and turned it in to a commercial product you ABSOLUTELY would be.
@gaypulp @deanwball What if I check out a bunch of economics and marketing books and then build a business? Do I owe those authors a share of profits?
@staffcommenter @deanwball Not like this. "Fiction" writ large can't regurgitate large blocks of other works. In any sane world that's just plagiarism.
@CoreyLeander @deanwball
@gaypulp @deanwball Works produced by AI are still subject to copyright law
@Ugo_alves @gaypulp @deanwball Probably
@CrotserJeremiah @deanwball They really want to create cyberpunk with a massive permanent underclass pacified with uniform UBI. Amazing dystopia they want for us.
@CoreyLeander @CrotserJeremiah @deanwball You read too much sci fi. You guys need to come up with better proposals
@altryne @deanwball “Doomer grandpa” is an instant classic.
@Nav2367 @CrotserJeremiah @deanwball Cyberpunk is a very famous, recent video game (and a TV show) lol.
You have no substantive response though. Fiction is a useful frame for imagining these kind of scenarios. See the nuclear media genre during the Cold War, and the role it played in preventing nuclear war.