This creates a sort of "eat me last" dynamic. Technologists who can tell that other social agents want a piece of their "pie" (in terms of both economic resources and governance power) sometimes try to preempt attack by saying "we'll help you regulate cyberspace!"
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I'm starting to hear proposals that governments should have backdoors into any sufficiently large assemblage of computing power, on the grounds of AI safety.
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I find this worrisome on free-speech grounds, on privacy grounds, on all the traditional civil libertarian grounds that seem so "uncool" in 2019.
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I also find it worrisome that there are essentially calls for slowing down and adding more governance to a relatively freewheeling and dynamic industry (software), and making it work more like "mature" industries. Mature industries innovate less.
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And it's *especially* disturbing that I don't see any pushback, not even verbal pushback *by* technologists who are generally chatty on the internet. Not even from my friends. Not even from "heterodox" right-wingers.
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I know: you look kind of weak and not with-it if you say "actually, I think we should be free to do our thing; our thing is mostly good", when you can sense that the currents of power are trending towards illiberalism. But maybe *don't be a weenie*?
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Do you *really* want to go from being a creative intellectual to making sure you get a lock on those sweet DOD contracts? Do you really think it's *good* for positive-sum creation to be turned into zero-sum rent-seeking? If not, then maybe say so?
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Curious why you associate the high level meme of “tech is dangerous/needs more supervision” with adversarialism and slowing down. I see transparency/governance generally as being (if well executed) one way to reduce adversarialism, and can even accelerate progress (eg standards)
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(Though of course many naive proposals along the general lines you indicate, if implemented, would increase adversarialism/slow things down)
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(P.S. did not mean to imply it is an unreasonable connection, and is probably true of a great many specific people you are reacting to - it’s just one I personally have some disagreements with so curious to dig deeper)
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I'm *really* not an expert here, I just kind of got a wake-up call recently. I certainly know of examples where standards accelerate technical progress. (protocols like USB, widely shared info about lab safety best practices, etc.)
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Yeah, my current view is that if you governance (in the broad sense) well you can probably capture a lot of the benefits of mature industries without slowing down innovation. It just takes work to identify the interventions that both mitigate risks and promote innovation.
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