I am at the AAAI spring meeting, and a lot of people complain in private that OpenAI is not developing anything dangerous :)
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Replying to @Plinz
I am not worried about anything dangerous. I am worried about the banality of evil in surveillance capitalism.
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Replying to @vakibs
it seems that capitalism and surveillance state are quite orthogonal forces?
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Replying to @Plinz
All evil routes itself to avoid oversight. In communism, it's distilled into the govt. In capitalism, it is routed in silicon valley.
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Replying to @vakibs
did you think about this in detail? Castro, Graham, Stalin, Brin, Allende, Musk... all same category for unaccountable evil?
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Replying to @Plinz
There is a large variability in the throughput. Some resist better than the others. But unaccountability breeds evil.
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Personally, I don't think Musk is evil. He also doesn't have access to the same level of data. He is an ambitious but nice guy IMO.
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Replying to @vakibs
I don't think that the view that history is the struggle of good against evil is very productive, and leads to very useful insights
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Replying to @Plinz
I agree. I used "evil" in Hannah Arendt sense "the banality of evil". Not to contrast it with "good".
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By "evil", I am talking about mechanical processing motivated by greed. A better term will be ignorance. Unaccountability breeds it.
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it does not fit on communist governments either
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