I subscribed to your blog specifically because I appreciated the thought you put into criticizing AI safety missteps and overreach. I find it valuable to have points of view less caught up in groupthink.
>> "Technological progress can only be slowed so much, the diffusion of knowledge cannot ultimately be stopped, and we cannot through sheer force of regulatory will invent a general-purpose technology that is impossible to abuse. Transformational change is a near certainty; the question is whether it will be for good or for ill."
I agree with this completely. I think the people who imagine we can stop this avalanche-in-progress are lacking perspective. Like a surfer looking like a tiny speck on the face of a vast wave, the best we can hope for is to steer wisely and balance carefully.
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I subscribed to your blog specifically because I appreciated the thought you put into criticizing AI safety missteps and overreach. I find it valuable to have points of view less caught up in groupthink.
>> "Technological progress can only be slowed so much, the diffusion of knowledge cannot ultimately be stopped, and we cannot through sheer force of regulatory will invent a general-purpose technology that is impossible to abuse. Transformational change is a near certainty; the question is whether it will be for good or for ill."
I agree with this completely. I think the people who imagine we can stop this avalanche-in-progress are lacking perspective. Like a surfer looking like a tiny speck on the face of a vast wave, the best we can hope for is to steer wisely and balance carefully.
Thank you! I plan to continue those critiques.