alt Hacker News> The companies are begging to be regulated for this reason and have been doing so for years
Regulations are rules that you force on a market, but the actors in the market should not be assumed to be all operating against the regulations before they come into play. Said in other words, these companies don't need to wait for regulation to not destroy the world, if that's truly what they think will happen.
> inb4 someone else will do it
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It's so hard to have a conversation when you respond to somebody saying
>that should 100% be a very strictly regulated area of research, similar to bio weapons
and then you get called out by someone else because
>these companies don't need to wait for regulation
But, okay, OpenAI pauses capabilities to focus on alignment (check), Anthropic refuses to release Mythos (check), and Google/Meta/China plows ahead- oh wait, you said 'inb4' which invalidates this line of argument because you anticipated it, even though I brought up race dynamics already. Alright, you win then, congratulations. Great talking to you.
> these companies don't need to wait for regulation to not destroy the world, if that's truly what they think will happen.
They believe that if they don't destroy the world someone else will so better be them