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crossroadsguyyesterday at 2:55 AM1 replyview on HN

There is no alternative. Why? The regulation is good only for US interests. It will be disastrous for the rest of the world like anything US has regulated (how dangerous that was like "nukes") and a lot of the world again will/might have to live under the American AI thumb, like it did (and many countries still do) under the US nuclear emboldened thumb.

> Everyone seems to want some fairytale world where there are open models

No, everyone wants a fairytale world where regulations are done "fairly", "openly", and "equally" - for both access and advancement. And everyone knows that's not gonna happen. Hell, everyone now knows exactly what it is. If you haven't understood it yet, then either you don't want to, or you just can't (for whatever reason).

No one wants to die in a nuclear or AI or AI+nuclear holocaust. But HN doesn't read world history, does it?


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unholinessyesterday at 3:56 PM

> The regulation is good only for US interests.

I think your nuclear scenario outlines precisely why this isn't true. Nuclear regulation has terms that are "good for the US" only in an absolute sense. The US would dominate even more overwhelmingly in the unregulated scenario, which gave them negotiation power to get those favorable terms. The same seems true so far with AI.

I don't think you can use the successful negotiation of nuclear regulations to argue there is "no alternative" involving regulation. I think it strongly suggests the opposite.

Of course the details matter a lot, but the core analogy holds in many scenarios. ( https://ai-2040.com/ at least attempts to lay out details, speculative as they may be)