The Employed Philosopher

tech and capitalism's last boss

[The Employed Philosopher @EmployedPhilo]

monopoly law doesn't view human resources as a scarce good, but had AI labs relied on, say, a critical mineral, it would be very easy to regulate and gatekeep it for the benefit of society

[The Employed Philosopher @EmployedPhilo]

is just a gross violation of how technologies with such broad societal implications need to be dispersed into society. As much as you hate government, we need a way to navigate this through liberal norms, not techno-anarchy.

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[The Employed Philosopher @EmployedPhilo]

AI is fundamentally ungovernable by society, and its deeply worrying to see labs not only skirt democratic norms, but insist on the necessity to reject them. https://t.co/6fb0xFWCZU

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[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

Today I'm publishing a new essay, Policy on the AI Exponential. AI is progressing extremely fast—much faster than the policy process was built to handle. The essay lays out where I think the technology is now, and the action needed to close the gap: https://t.co/Lh6PWae178

[The Employed Philosopher @EmployedPhilo]

They are of course a victim of its own success, and they should be applauded for the technological progress that they have been able to achieve, but actively advocating for the dangers of a model, while at the same time YOLO'ing it out of the door...

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[The Employed Philosopher @EmployedPhilo]

@danrobinson i feel like skills are de facto patches to give you one-shot responses aren't they? coming up with that longer prompt actually requires expertise that's non-trivial.

[The Employed Philosopher @EmployedPhilo]

what if the creators themselves are arguing that technology is so powerful that no single entity should be responsible for it all?

i think technology is also a key word here. we wouldn't be having the same argument if the stewards of this resource had found some critical mineral essential to humanity's existence.

hoarding use in that situation would be unacceptable.

[The Employed Philosopher @EmployedPhilo]

@KenoFischer What if those guardrails are against productive use? For example education.

[The Employed Philosopher @EmployedPhilo]

@expatanon @AnthropicAI they have pretty much admitted that if the law doesn't suit them, they will take matters into their own hands and use the technology to push their worldview

[The Employed Philosopher @EmployedPhilo]

@Astoll15 i think we've unfortunately reached times where people would be happy to take regulatory capture instead of whatever the fuck this is

[spor @sporadica]

Anthropic: "We are terrified of recursive self-improvement, it may kill us all!"

Also Anthropic: "But like, not when we do it hahaha. I mean, like, when all those other labs do it, that'll be bad, so like they're not allowed. but we got the secret recipe, trust us, we're chill"

[davinci @leothecurious]

machines of selectively loving grace

[The Employed Philosopher @EmployedPhilo]

@johnennis correct. funny how they have to devise a whole new deduction-based morality in response to their own precipitous releases.

the whole "if we don't do it, someone else will" argument kind of dies when you are at the forefront of a technology's progress

[The Employed Philosopher @EmployedPhilo]

@So8res there's a lot of subtlety in this argument. a long winded excuse for coercion, with a nod to ideology alone no longer being a powerful enough tool for them.

[The Employed Philosopher @EmployedPhilo]

@jmbollenbacher this essay removes any plausible deniability regarding their negligence in their most recent posture.

its clearly something that's been deliberated at length, and wide eyed to the gravity of self-sovereignty.

[The Employed Philosopher @EmployedPhilo]

@dwlz Yc, almost by definition, funds market risk not execution risk.