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if you really think you're going to create God do you want to put God on a leash with one entity controlling God
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that to me is the real fear I'm not scared of AI I'm scared of what a very small number of people who control AI do
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to the rest of us for our own good I'm not an AI Doomer I don't think AI is going to end the world that's a separate
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conversation but there's this religion that comes along in many faces which is that oh climate change is going to end
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the world AI is going to end the world asteroids going to end the world covid-19 is going to end the world and
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it just has a way of fixating your attention right it captures everybody's attention at once so it's a very
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seductive thing and I think in the case of AI it's really been overplayed by incentive bias motivated reasoning by
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the companies were ahead and they want to pull up the ladder behind them I think they generally believe that there
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safety risk but I think they're motivated to believe in those safety risks and then they pass that along but
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it's kind of a weird position cuz they have to say oh it's so dangerous that you shouldn't just let open source go at
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it and you should let just a few of us work with you on it but it's not so dangerous that a private company can't
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own the whole thing right cuz if was truly the Manhattan Project if they were building nuclear weapons you wouldn't
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want one company to own that no so to me the real issue boils down to it how do you push AI forward while not having
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just a very small number of players control the entire thing