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genericrich t1_jeaa4ms wrote

Reply to Can we not pause or shutdown ai? by froggygun

They want a 6 month pause on training these large language models. It's utopian thinking, not consistent with capitalism.

Ever hear about what happens when a new batch of powerful heroin would hit the streets, killing some junkies via overdose? The other junkies go looking for that shit, because something bad isn't going to happen to *them*, right? Tragedy is for the other poor bastards.

That's what's at work here. Capitalism doesn't allow them to slow down with AI development, no matter what the risk is. In fact, for VCs and C-suite tech company execs (basically the same tribe), risk is exactly what they want. Risk equals reward.

They don't believe that the risk is existential for the human race. They can't believe that. If they admit this possibility, they open the door to introducing ethics and morality into their business decisions, which in this case they cannot do, since they fear their competitors will not be similarly bound.

There's no slowing down. Nobody is pausing anything, regardless of how good an idea it might be.

This isn't even taking into account the military and intelligence services, who are almost certainly investing mega millions into LLM development. You can bet that the NSA is balls-deep in this field.

All this letter does is pour more chum into the water.

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Antique-Bus-7787 t1_jea8ytq wrote

Reply to comment by Unfocusedbrain in LAION launches a petition to democratize AI research by establishing an international, publicly funded supercomputing facility equipped with 100,000 state-of-the-art AI accelerators to train open source foundation models. by BananaBus43

It needs to be contained and they talk about a department of AI safety inside the facility. But the problem is relatively the same with Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and all the other serious actors, they all have clouds of accelerators

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singulthrowaway t1_jea8vln wrote

Reply to LAION launches a petition to democratize AI research by establishing an international, publicly funded supercomputing facility equipped with 100,000 state-of-the-art AI accelerators to train open source foundation models. by BananaBus43

Signed.

It's definitely a step in the right direction, but if you ask me you'd also have to shut down existing labs (including in China, so you'd have to make international agreements) and tightly control, again internationally, who is allowed to buy state of the art GPUs. Failing that, I'm not sure if open sourcing it is the correct move. I'd be fine with it being closed-source for now to avoid national efforts with more nefarious goals benefiting from its results so long as the people involved in the international project are legally bound to use it for the good of humanity as a whole, with mechanisms in place to ensure this.

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CertainMiddle2382 t1_jea8lpi wrote

Reply to comment by Dyeeguy in How do you guys actually think UBI will work? by MelodiGreig

You are mistaken, there is actually a huge scarcity of ressources on this planet.

US lifestyle is not scalable.

And of course UBI will allow people « not to live paycheck to paycheck », it is just that people think 1$ of UBI will allow them to buy the same as 1$ of today.

It is not, RV parks wont get bigger by UBI, Disneyland either, there won’t be more shoreline on the lake either.

UBI wont change a single thing to that apart making people who have the good stuff already even richer…

You can’t control what people are going to do with their UBI money, apart if you distribute it as coupons, like in the USSR or SNAP.

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