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Elon is coming out in favor of Dario and it doesn't seem to matter? The e/acc types are ignoring their God and safetyism still codes left anyway.
I wonder if more safety types should conspicuously come out for Trump or if the issue is memetically poisoned by now.
Altman and others have tried appealing to Trump's vanity by proposing he win a Nobel prize if he negotiates the best Deal with China. He would absolutely deserve one. The only hard part is convincing the Nobel people I suppose.
I note that early groundwork for such a deal requires convincing China we plan to beat them in the arms race. A dose of copium perhaps.
Honestly, it would help to care a little less about the mimetics and more about the practicalities. I'm contradicting my downstream post a little bit but you have to be able to demonstrate you actually care about and will address the concerns of people worried about pauses and regulation. A legal right and practical mechanism for fine-tuning your copy of GPT to be aligned to you. A requirement for all models more than three years old to be open-sourced. Something.
When Trump went all-on on vaccines a big portion of his coalition didn't follow him because they did actually care about the core issue. Same here. People aren't e/acc because they like Musk (though mimetics are obviously relevant), they liked Musk while he was prominently e/acc.
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