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More developments on the AI front:
Big Yud steps up his game, not to be outshined by the Basilisk Man.
Now, he officially calls for preemptive nuclear strike on suspicious unauthorized GPU clusters.
If we see AI threat as nuclear weapon threat, only worse, it is not unreasonable.
Remember when USSR planned nuclear strike on China to stop their great power ambitions (only to have the greatest humanitarian that ever lived, Richard Milhouse Nixon, to veto the proposal).
Such Quaker squeamishness will have no place in the future.
So, outlines of the Katechon World are taking shape. What it will look like?
It will look great.
You will live in your room, play original World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on your PC, read your favorite blogs and debate intelligent design on your favorite message boards.
Then you will log on The Free Republic and call for more vigorous enhanced interrogation of terrorists caught with unauthorized GPU's.
When you bored in your room, you will have no choice than to go outside, meet people, admire things around you, make a picture of things that really impressed with your Kodak camera and when you are really bored, play Snake on your Nokia phone.
Yes, the best age in history, the noughties, will retvrn. For forever, protected by CoDominium of US and China.
edit: links again
For another angle on this problem: looking at GPUs isn't going to be good enough. Maybe consumer grade GPUs are the best widely available chip architecture we have for running AI today but there's no reason that has to always be the case. If AI is going to be as important for the future as Yud claims there is going to be immense pressure to develop custom chips that are more optimized for running AI. This is basically the progression that happened in Bitcoin mining.
You can't just track chips with a particular architecture because we can make new architectures! To do this effectively you'd need to track every chip fabrication facility in the world, examine every architecture of chip they make, and somehow figure out if that architecture was optimized for running some AI software. Even if this monitoring infrastructure were in place, what if some entity comes up with some clever and heretofore unseen software+hardware AI pair that's super efficient? Are we going to never allow any new chip architectures on the off chance they are optimized for running an AI in a way we can't detect?
For nuclear weapons we at least have the ability to identify the necessary inputs (uranium and means of enriching it). For AI, do we even have constraints on what it's software will look like? On how chips that are optimized for running it will be structured?
I think this was already proposed by Yud and Roko and the like; regulate the hell out of the like three-to-seven chipmakers in the world and you'd already have a major pillar of the anti-AI regime.
Hence why Roko proposed a massive GPU buyback. No, I don't think it'll particularly work (at least not 100%), though I suppose it could be somewhat more effective than the typical gun buyback.
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