> "Talking about AI regulation early and from within the industry is more likely to lead to good regulation." According to Gurley's talk, apparently thats what the telecommunications people thought, and it was pretty good regulation to amplify the power structures within that
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Government Resilience: High-Entropy Systems and Transparent Small-Scale Administration
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successful governments tend to be * more high-entropy, making it hard to remove or capture the checks-and-balances easily
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Corporate Capture and AI Regulation: A Paradox?
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if there's a world where any or most regulation is captured by "corporate-driven government corruption" as you quote — then is proposing further regulation good or bad?
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Smart Regulation Signals from Non-Incumbents and Consumers
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on the other hand, if a non-incumbent or a consumer is asking for regulation, and they are smart, connected and knowledgable, then hear closely what they have to say — it probably has a lot of signal because they are incentivized to break up the consolidation of power.
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Decentralization vs Centralization of Power in AI Systems
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There are very few instances where centralization of power resulted in good, and countless instances where decentralization of power resulted in good. It's almost impossible to interpret a positive intent for someone's call for centralization of power if that person is smart,
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AI Regulation Position: Analyzing the Regulatory Video Debate
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If you think Regulation is good, and AI Regulation is essential, what is your position on this video? https://t.co/eItoXepugS
— Soumith Chintala (@soumithchintala) 16 septembre 2023If you think Regulation is good, and AI Regulation is essential, what is your position on this video?
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Can we probe LLM reasoning abilities like biological minds
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the question was intentionally ill-posed but its hard to agree with the notion that because it's algo/math, you cant probe into its reasoning or communication abilities — aren't we just blobs of matter.
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Are LLMs Unintelligent or Non-Native Language Users?
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if LLMs are weirdly unintelligent, is it because they are stupid, or is it because they’re not a “native speaker”?
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PhD Deep Learning: Unnecessary in Mainstream AI Era
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i think you're saying — reject the notion of a PhD or a research Masters in hot deep-learning topics because AI is now so mainstream and so well-capitalized and so accessible that you can do great work on discord or in an industrial lab and publish and you win at life.
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Academic Incentive Systems and Performance Metrics in AI Research
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very reductive take. a lot of people play the game as an essential side hustle or as a meaningful checkpoint of progress (academia is naturally unstable, students are only around for a little bit).
its okay, it’s not the worst.
its like the crap people do for perf reviews, like