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@friedberg @RoKhanna @elonmusk @JoeBiden If government’s goal were just to create jobs, we’d replace every computer with a typewriter and hire ten people to do one person’s work. The second “jobs created” becomes the measure of success, you can fake progress by making everyone less productive

[A @Ag332023]

@jliemandt @johnarnold @johnarnold , Identifying students deficiencies, and targeted teaching at that point of leverage (where the gap in understanding occurs), is crucial. It’s not hard to see how unproductive vs productive screen time studies don’t square. @jliemandt correct me if that’s off.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

This gets to the core of the issue more than any debate about specific terms.

Do you believe in democracy? Should our military be regulated by our elected leaders, or corporate executives? Seemingly innocuous terms from the latter like "You cannot target innocent civilians" are actually moral minefields that lever differences of cultural tradition into massive control.

Who is a civilian and not? What makes them innocent or not? What does it mean for them to be a "target" vs collateral damage? Existing policy and law has very clear answers for these questions, but unelected corporations managing profits and PR will often have a very different answer.

Imagine if a missile company tried to enforce the above policy, that their product cannot be used to target innocent civilians, that they can shut off access if elected leaders decide to break those terms. Sounds, good, right? Not really - in addition to the value judgement problems I list above, you also have to account for questions like:

-What level of information, classified and otherwise, does the corporation receive that would allow them to make these determinations? How much leverage would they have to demand more?
-What if an elected President merely threatens a dictator with using our weapons in a certain way, ala Madman Theory/MAD? Is the threat seen as empty because the dictator knows the corporate executives will cut off the military? Is the threat enough to trigger the cutoff? How might either of those determinations vary if the current corporate executive happens to like the dictator or dislike the President?
-At what level of confidence does the cutoff trigger, both in writing and in reality?

The fact that this is a debate over AI does not change the underlying calculus. The same problems apply to definitions and use of ethically fraught but important capabilities like surveillance systems or autonomous weapons. It is easy to say "But they will have cutouts to operate with autonomous systems for defensive use!", but you immediately get into the same issues and more - what is autonomous? What is defensive? What about defending an asset during an offensive action, or parking a carrier group off the coast of a nation that considers us to be offensive?

At the end of the day, you have to believe that the American experiment is still ongoing, that people have the right to elect and unelect the authorities making these decisions, that our imperfect constitutional republic is still good enough to run a country without outsourcing the real levers of power to billionaires and corpos and their shadow advisors. I still believe.

And that is why "bro just agree the AI won't be involved in autonomous weapons or mass surveillance why can't you agree it is so simple please bro" is an untenable position that the United States cannot possibly accept.

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@JTLonsdale Outrageous demands Joe 😂, these officers need some DEI training before they can be trusted back into society

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@hamevs No Regulation Without Expedition — no new rules unless the government can move fast.

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@TheDunkCentral @RealGM Good. The sport has become an unwatchable free throw shooting contest

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@strmeckih14 @FlatgroundBats This guy hit multiple 500ft HRs on Hittrax and didn’t put it in bc people would say it’s fake... 🤯

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@elonmusk AI is The Great Filter. I’ll set the odds at -1000.

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@BleacherReport Disrespectful to leave @BenSimmons25 off this list just because he’s, “in his third year”.

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@TheForestScout Stop sleeping on Caleb Durbin. Best hitter in the state. #endofdiscussion @PBRIllinois