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Neural Foundry's avatar

The tension between flexibility and preparedness in AI regulation really hits home here. Ball's point about gradient descent beating static rules makes intuitive sense when we can't predict which risks will actually materalize politically or technically. That said, I wonder if his entity-based governance concept forshadows inevitable regulatory capture once were forced into it. The finacial sector analogy is interesting but also cautionary, given how much compliance infrastructure gets weaponized for incumbents.

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Future of Citizenship's avatar

SWIFT is a corporation run by banks and governed under Belgian law. It didn’t emerge from nowhere, it was incorporated under exiting regulatory frameworks in Europe to prevent US banks from controlling the global banking system. It is completely different from the UN. This is like saying we should replace grocery stores with Netflix.

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Randall K McRee's avatar

Hmmm, Dean does this, Dean does that. It would be good to know whose perspective are we actually reading? Who produced this? This is something that will need to be on *all* written material going forward--you should start! Whomever you are.

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Steeven's avatar

Cool cool. I suppose the “non-linear increase in unemployment” sounds important and I hope that Dean is able to talk more about his opposition to UBI and what he thinks about gradual disempowerment, let alone the national security issues associated with very strong AI

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