Seeing a handful of these articles in publications such as nyt gives me an awful spidey sense that we're watching the consent manufacturing machine get spun up to ban open weights models.
As far as I'm aware, this was only predicted by play acting effective altruists who tend to have a histrionic outlook around further developments of large language models.
Democrats as a rule run against the foil of the Republican party. And the majority of supporters seem to think that this is completely acceptable. The best strategy they could come up with is, "just vote blue", which is just pathetically hilarious when you think about it. Almost as if to say, "look, it doesn't even matter what our policies are, the other policies are so bad that you just vote for us."
So it's not surprising. Democrats policies are the rainbow Raytheon logo during pride month.
Greater wealth inequality. More authoritarian policies as climate refugees from the global south put pressure on classically liberal governments.
Less freedom of movement. Most of the Western world living in a surveillance state.
Climate breakdown manifesting itself with bigger and more frequent wildfires, floods and hurricanes. Potentially the first sign of the AMOC collapse.
An economy begining to become untethered from labor. Feudal conditions from a rent seeking class of supranational corporations . Social stratification across ownership: most people don't own anything at all.
Yep it sucks. This is the consequence of what these technofeudalists are bringing to the table.
I was banned from open ai under similar circumstances, right after they scaled out their payments system. I was paying through Google play, and one day account was banned. The process of appeal was crazy. First, they told me they couldn't tell me what I did wrong. Then, they said, even though they couldn't tell me what I did wrong, if I apologized for doing it they would consider the appeal. Finally, they told me that they confirmed it was due to suspicious payment activity.
Just for shits and giggles, I sent a follow up email once a month for over a year.
What's interesting, is my developer account is tied to a phone number. So, even though I can still pay openai under a different email (same card!) I can't access the developer account because that number is accounted for.
There are a lot of people on this site that want to be skeptical and say, "hmmm there has to be more to this story." There really isn't. Unless you consider that I said disparaging things about Sam Altman in a chat to chatgpt once, maybe that's it.
This is the world these companies are building for us: absolute rent seeking behavior towards the in/put group. And if you're in the out group, you can eat shit.
Most if not all brokerages allow you to do that. I just opened up my fidelity and etrade to check.
That doesn't make it right perse, but your moralisation at the end becomes more weak. Robinhood is only as "truly vile" as all of wall street.
And anyway, options can play a decent role in financial strategy, most retailers don't use these instruments appropriately. To quote The Big Short, "this is wall street dr bury, if you offer us free money we're going to take it."
> We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology. [1]
First, I want to state up top that I don't personally agree with any legislation that seeks to ban or limit access to frontier llms.
Having said that, it's difficult to not have a somewhat glib reaction to this news. Surely, if leadership believes what is written above then they are happy with this outcome. Ignoring all perverse incentives or potential market manipulation that might be going on from this current administration, on it's face it's a genies wish granted, "your models are so dangerous that the world should pause development? done. You may start pausing development."
This is super cool. Do you have any code up in a public repo that I could peek at? I've been working on and off on a static recompiler for playstation games, wasm was kind of my end goal.