After reflection, I decided to remove the two false representations that were the most ambiguous from the top level post. They were: >A cadre of elites decides which research directions are permissible, caps global compute and robotics, and creates state-administered scarcity rents.
>It feels like the same plans as I’ve been hearing about for nearly a decade in the AI safety community, but filled with more details. In 2018 when I worked for the UK government, a prominent AI safety research organisation told me that “we need to solve the technical alignment problem, and then simply hand it to the UN to implement everywhere.” This was before the field invested in governance and politics; Plan A broadly similar, but with all sorts of mechanisms to fill in the gaps.
I think these are still wrong/misleading, but are less clear cut than the examples still in the post.
(We also edited the post to be generally be less combative, because I think it was too combative and regret that; see the italics at the top; you can see the diff here)
After reflection, I decided to remove the two false representations that were the most ambiguous from the top level post. They were:
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A cadre of elites decides which research directions are permissible, caps global compute and robotics, and creates state-administered scarcity rents.>
It feels like the same plans as I’ve been hearing about for nearly a decade in the AI safety community, but filled with more details. In 2018 when I worked for the UK government, a prominent AI safety research organisation told me that “we need to solve the technical alignment problem, and then simply hand it to the UN to implement everywhere.” This was before the field invested in governance and politics; Plan A broadly similar, but with all sorts of mechanisms to fill in the gaps.I think these are still wrong/misleading, but are less clear cut than the examples still in the post.
(We also edited the post to be generally be less combative, because I think it was too combative and regret that; see the italics at the top; you can see the diff here)