Daniel Kokotajlo
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One might be more optimistic that if it's an executive order or something, it'll be more flexible.
I just think that relies on a level of goodwill and...
flexibility on the behalf of a regulator.
But suppose the
There's some department that says, if we catch you, if we catch your AI saying that they want to take over or do something bad, then you'll be really heavily punished.
Your immediate response is allowed to just be like, okay, let's train them away from saying this.
So you can imagine all kinds of ways in which a top-down mandate from the government to the labs of safety would just really backfire.
And given how fast things are moving, maybe it makes more sense to,
leave these kinds of implementation decisions or even high-level overall... What is the word?
Strategic decisions around alignment to the labs.
It's, you know, if you told Madison and Hamilton and so forth that... They probably, I mean, they knew that they were doing something important when they were writing the Constitution.
They probably didn't realize...
just how contingent things turned out on a single, what exactly did they mean when they said general welfare?
And why is this comma, the comma being here instead of there?
The spec in the grand scheme of things is going to be an even more sort of important document in human history.
At least if you buy this intelligence explosion view, which we've gone through the debates on that.
And you might even imagine some super human AIs in the super human AI court being like the spec.
Here's the phrasing here, the etymology of that.
Here's what the founders meant.
Yeah.