David Duvenaud

I hope that came across in all of this.

Not really.

That's probably why my PDM is so high, basically.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm very worried about bioweapons, and I think that that's going to be a good justification for government control that's nonetheless going to be excessive.

Yeah.

If there's such a technical solution, that would be a total bonanza.

I would be over the moon and that would lower my PDM substantially.

Specifically, if we could find a way to say everyone gets open source AI, somehow we're disabling them from doing basically terrorism and other very destructive power grabs.

But otherwise, they get to actually serve users.

I would be like, yay, I want to live in that world.

Correct, yes.

Yeah, so they've raised money, they're hiring, and their basic pitch is we're going to avoid the kind of gradual disempowerment, intelligence curse dynamics by giving people control over their own automation.

And so the service that they're planning to provide is you upload your data to some sort of secure private enclave.

We will host it.

We will also handle the fine-tuning to give you this personalized assistant that...

basically is sort of a digital clone of you or like a clone or like an assistant that knows all of your context so it can help you.

And the idea is like it's in contrast maybe to like mechanized labs who are saying, let's build this global thing where we just learn all the skills and then the return on sort of capital is much more concentrated.

The hope, the like value pitch for like the public good is that if people follow the workshop labs model, there's a bunch of people who each sort of control their own means of production to a greater extent.

Yeah, well, not quite, because I also think that if you end up being replaced by your own clone, you're at least getting to control it and you own the sort of IP.