Why don’t you take this same passion and energy for free speech for American citizens and redirect it to advocate the same for your own fellow citizens in China.
REGULATION
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ASI Rule of Law Argument Based on Analogy, Not First Principle
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And furthermore, the claim that ASIs would need to imitate human-style "rule of law" to the point of it respecting human life and property rights, is itself an argument from sheer analogy. I replied to an analogy with another analogy; I did not throw the first punch.
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Overlooking lawsuits and licensing costs in AI economics
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yeah, i kicked myself after for omitting the lawsuits and licensing costs!
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Iatrogenic False Solutions in Current AI Proposals
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(Bonus, for the vocab builders among us, the word 'iatrogenic' is helpful in metaphorically describing the false solution space current proposals present.)
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AI Now Institute Report on Compute and AI Policy
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And this stellar report from @AINowInstitute — @sarahbmyers and Jai Vipra 9/ https://
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Public Funding Diversion: AI Research vs Essential Services
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Which raises a much more urgent question: does AI justify the diversion of such funding from, say, libraries, parks, schools, etc. to Google, Amazon, Microsoft on behalf of research? And if so, where's the hard proof backing this significant tradeoff? 7/
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Academic AI Research Dependency on Big Tech Infrastructure
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IRL, no academic can afford to pay retail ($100b training runs, y'all). So, academic labs vie for access/proximity to Big Tech infra in pursuit of doing 'relevant' research–something that should alarm fans of academic neutrality/those concerned w conflict of interest. 3/
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Government funding Big Tech deepens corporate AI infrastructure control
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BUT the current proposals to alleviate this imbalance largely exacerbate it. Insofar as they amount to gov paying Big Tech to get academics access to Big Tech resources. This strengthens Big Tech control & further normalize access to Big Tech infra as "the way AI gets done." 4/
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Big Tech AI Control Problem: Current Solutions Risk Extending Dominance
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Notable that this longstanding problem, which I and a few others have been naming for ~a decade, is now common sense. It's true. AI is fundamentally a technology controlled by Big Tech. But the current 'solutions' to this problem would extend, not dilute, Big Tech control. 1/ https://
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AI Company Faces Competition, Legal Troubles, Strategic Challenges
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Sure but they also have already 4 close competitors that have largely caught up, with at least one competing on price, a dozen or so lawsuits, upcoming licensing costs, at least 2 or 3 federal investigations, no moat, high operating costs, and a desperate need to build something