Focus Protocol retweeted
Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
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The AI debate rages on: will it save humanity or end it?
Meanwhile the AIs are just generating both sides of the argument and calling it a day.
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@PalmerLuckey @anduriltech We want civilian weapons & tech from you guys. You already built Lattice and the factories. Why not make us a legal civilian line of hardware & software? People would buy it, and it could help fund your next military product. The infrastructure is already sitting there. Might as well use it.
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The left is on a project to enforce equality, despite biology and markets.
The goal of equality gives claim to the moral high ground, but contradicting biology and markets requires censorship and violence, which makes the whole project immoral.
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Focus Protocol retweeted
It’s no longer Republicans vs. Democrats.
It’s Americans who love this country vs. terrorists who want to destroy it.
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Charlie Munger talks about the lollapalooza effect, well the combination of high debt, high and rising interest rates, structural deficits driven by entitlements + interest, and limited political willingness to adjust. If rates stay above ~5% on long bonds while debt keeps growing faster than the economy, pressure builds faster than many baseline projections assume. One day this combination will lead to the mother of all Lollapaloozas.
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Corruption of the mind is much more a plague than any such contamination change in the surrounding air we breathe.
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I wonder what Benjamin Franklin would think about Americas current standing on its 250th birthday 🤔
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Focus Protocol retweeted
Let regular people invest in private companies!
I think it’s time to revisit the accredited investor laws in the US.
Companies are staying private longer, where only accredited investors (aka rich people!) can invest. Retail investors can only come in after IPO, when much of the upside has already been captured.
These rules were created with the best of intentions, to protect regular people from scams - a noble idea. Unfortunately, in practice they've often made it illegal to get richer, unless you're already rich. A regressive tax!
We have to judge policies based on their outcomes, not on their intentions.
These are two possible routes I see:
1) Replace the rule with something merit-based, like a financial literacy test. Pass it and you're accredited. Having a qualification based on competency rather than your bank balance or income seems far more fair.
2) Remove the rule entirely. Let consenting adults assess their own risk. Disclosure requirements stay and fraud enforcement stays to punish bad actors.
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As soon as the first bank is hacked or compromised because of AI, Bitcoin will go to 1 million over night.
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I don’t even have the words to describe how bad ass this is. Amazing work. @realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse @ufc @danawhite
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Regarding the OpenAI case, the judge & jury never actually ruled on the merits of the case, just on a calendar technicality.
There is no question to anyone following the case in detail that Altman & Brockman did in fact enrich themselves by stealing a charity. The only question is WHEN they did it!
I will be filing an appeal with the Ninth Circuit, because creating a precedent to loot charities is incredibly destructive to charitable giving in America.
OpenAI was founded to benefit all of humanity.
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