<div dir="ltr">We are in a narrow window now where any regulations surrounding AI in general and LLMs specifically are still enforceable by police and military force. LLMS need large datacenters full of GPUs. The manufacture, sale, and distribution of these pallets of GPUs can be monitored, tracked, and if necessary interdicted. Datacenters require human employees, construction workers, functioning power grids, etc. Even without airstrikes by international coalitions, these can be monitored, controlled, regulated, or disrupted.<div><br></div><div>10 years from now, when you can cram a large language model into 5 or 6 fully tricked out Mac Pros in the basement of an office building, or 5 years later, when you can cram one into a midline home office workstation, the genie will be well and truly out of the bottle.</div><div><br></div><div>Remember in the late 90's, when an Act of Congress made implementation of the DeCSS algorithm illegal, and the next day every hacker in Western Civilization owned a tshirt with the ~2 dozen lines of source code on it? That is the future of AI regulation.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 9:40 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg5469687992377837771"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_5469687992377837771WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Yudkowsky in Time on AI Open Letter.<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">The feds wanting to regulate something they don't understand has been going on since our first existence. bill </span><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Thx Billw. That is exactly why we have a constitution, limiting the US government’s legal authority to do the wrong thing. That same factor limits their ability to do the right thing as well, of course. Freedom isn’t free.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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