alt Hacker NewsNo one is confused about how regulatory capture works. We're confused by the allegations that labs are deliberately producing safety problems in order to achieve regulatory capture.
Repeatedly blowing up your own munitions factory is not a good way to prevent other people, but not yourself, from running a munitions factory. Obviously.
Obviously the far better solution is to blow up other people's factories, or make allegations of unsafe conditions at other factories, and repeatedly demonstrate excellence and safety within your own.
Here, award-winning gymnasts are alleging that the frontier labs are simply choosing not to do that, and instead choosing to have explosions and minor fires every few days at their own factories, many of which they try to hide (and probably many more of which they successfully do hide). Believing such astounding bullshit is a testament to the power of motivated reasoning and the conspiratorial mindrot that now plagues our civilization.
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> Repeatedly blowing up your own munitions factory is not a good way to prevent other people, but not yourself, from running a munitions factory. Obviously.
No, that's not obvious at all. It seems like a perfect way to demonstrate the danger of the category as a whole, then position yourself as learning from your mistakes and willing to cooperate/support/advise.
I fail to see how training a hacking model with access to source code of open-source services and other prior knowledge, running it in a "sandbox" with many of those heavy, big attack surface services running on the same network, and being proxies to the general internet, giving the model some access to those services and then prompting "GO HACK YOUR WAY OUT!" is "blowing up your own munitions factory". I see it more as setting fire to your own factory for insurance fraud, or bringing in a bunch of north korean hackers and giving them the same task. It's not exactly something normal users want or are able to do. And those with the compute and know-how will do it regardless of any laws. I also fail to see how giving a presentation at a big conference, describing the entire incident is trying to hide it.