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jimbokuntoday at 3:07 AM1 replyview on HN

So to you “safety” means “the models that cause the most harm.”


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chmod775today at 3:28 AM

This sounds like the gun debate in a different dress. Something being dangerous doesn't make it inherently harmful.

If I threw you into a lion cage, you would be a lot safer with a gun.

If I threw 10 people in a lion cage, some of which cannot be trusted, they would probably be most safe if only the most moral and trustworthy person had a gun, rather than everyone. But how do you know who is trustworthy and moral? What if two untrustworthy people obtained a gun some other way? Maybe it's better if everyone had a gun? Which side of the fence one falls on hinges on how far ones' trust of others, authority, and the system goes.

There's no obvious right or wrong answer here.

Personally I wouldn't want an exclusive club of private individuals with access to "dangerous" LLMs consisting mainly of the likes of Elon, Dario and Sam fucking Altman, but that's just me.

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