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0 pointsdmix1y ago0 comments

It's not going to stop it though even if they try though. You can't stop technical progress like this any more than you can stop piracy.

But agreed, between the unions with political pull and "AI safety" grifters I suspect there could be some level of regulatory risk, particularly for the megacorps in California. I doubt it will be some national thing in the US absent a major political upheaval. Definitely possible in the EU which will probably just be a price passed on to customers or reduced access, but that's nothing new for them.

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techostritch1y ago· 1 in thread

I keep seeing people say you can’t stop progress (social, technical, etc.) but has this really been tested? There seems to be a lot of political upheaval at least being threatened on the near future, and depending on the forces that come into power I imagine they may be willing to do a lot to protect that power.

Tucker Carlson at one point said if FSD was going to take away trucking jobs we should stop that with regulation.

suoduandao31y ago

There are amistics - the voluntary non-use of technology once it's available - which all cultures engage in to greater or lesser degrees. All technology has a price and sometimes it's not worth it - see leaded gasoline for an extreme example.

But in the general sense, I think it's tautologically correct to say better models always lead to better predictions, which always give an edge in competitions on an individual or societal level. So long term I do believe learning trumps ignorance, not in all cases but on average.

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