A pause is impossible, and is also a dangerous governmental overstep. At best they can stop public usage, and that is certainly less in the public interest than proliferation. Labs won’t stop researching. Capital runs America at the end of the day, as we all know, and that will ultimately decide the direction we take. I’d say a more worthwhile use of thought is to ponder how to adapt and resist the current situation, rather than a fairy tale of a pause happening. It is probably the case that the only possible pause can come from AI itself
The labs themselves have communicated their desire for building a coordination mechanism that enables a pause. Even capitalists don’t want to die from losing control over RSI AI systems. I’m not sure what’s going on in the mind of military strategists though. They might prefer to die from their own weapons rather than those of their enemies.
Will the labs stop researching if Trump sends thousands of federal agents to the headquarters of all the labs and appoints a panel of bankruptcy judges to dissolve the labs and return their assets to their creditors and shareholders?
Perhaps a reasonable unboxing of the word “pause” here is: “let off the gas, tap the brakes, breathe, and course correct”. Undeniably there is much untapped with the current frontier that we most certainly could stop racing without catastrophic side effects, towards a fruitful narrower path heavy on the sciences.
Agree that a pause is unlikely. But, if that’s a fairy tale, then what else isn’t a hail mary? If by adapting and resisting you mean fully accepting near term unsurvivable catastrophe, then yeah, that’s a reasonable outlook.
Anything else is something you need to make a case for.
A pause is impossible, and is also a dangerous governmental overstep. At best they can stop public usage, and that is certainly less in the public interest than proliferation. Labs won’t stop researching. Capital runs America at the end of the day, as we all know, and that will ultimately decide the direction we take. I’d say a more worthwhile use of thought is to ponder how to adapt and resist the current situation, rather than a fairy tale of a pause happening. It is probably the case that the only possible pause can come from AI itself
The labs themselves have communicated their desire for building a coordination mechanism that enables a pause. Even capitalists don’t want to die from losing control over RSI AI systems. I’m not sure what’s going on in the mind of military strategists though. They might prefer to die from their own weapons rather than those of their enemies.
Will the labs stop researching if Trump sends thousands of federal agents to the headquarters of all the labs and appoints a panel of bankruptcy judges to dissolve the labs and return their assets to their creditors and shareholders?
Perhaps a reasonable unboxing of the word “pause” here is: “let off the gas, tap the brakes, breathe, and course correct”. Undeniably there is much untapped with the current frontier that we most certainly could stop racing without catastrophic side effects, towards a fruitful narrower path heavy on the sciences.
Agree that a pause is unlikely. But, if that’s a fairy tale, then what else isn’t a hail mary? If by adapting and resisting you mean fully accepting near term unsurvivable catastrophe, then yeah, that’s a reasonable outlook.
Anything else is something you need to make a case for.
Haha no I think you’re right; that by my view it’s basically the coin flip of apocalyptopia