Oh, I guess I said “Elon wants xAI to produce a maximally truth-seeking AI, really decentralizing control over information”.
Yeah, in hindsight I should have been more careful to distinguish between my descriptions of people’s political platform, and my inferences about what they “really want”. The thing I was trying to describe was more like “what is the stance of this group” than “do people in the group actually believe the stance”.
A more accurate read of what the “real motivations” are would have been something like “you prevent it by using decentralization, until you’re in a position where you can centralize power yourself, and then you try to centralize power yourself”.
(Though that’s probably a bit too cynical—I think there are still parts of Elon that have a principled belief in decentralization. My guess is just that they won’t win out over his power-seeking parts when push comes to shove.)
Oh, I guess I said “Elon wants xAI to produce a maximally truth-seeking AI, really decentralizing control over information”.
Yeah, in hindsight I should have been more careful to distinguish between my descriptions of people’s political platform, and my inferences about what they “really want”. The thing I was trying to describe was more like “what is the stance of this group” than “do people in the group actually believe the stance”.
A more accurate read of what the “real motivations” are would have been something like “you prevent it by using decentralization, until you’re in a position where you can centralize power yourself, and then you try to centralize power yourself”.
(Though that’s probably a bit too cynical—I think there are still parts of Elon that have a principled belief in decentralization. My guess is just that they won’t win out over his power-seeking parts when push comes to shove.)