Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross
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anti-AI that have apparently emerged.
I do think it's, for the record, I think it's sad that it's being politicized.
I would hope that there would be broad recognition that super intelligence can be broadly beneficial.
But at the same time, I think this has been true for every transformative technology in human history, that there's a natural axis that forms that's
maybe on one side leans more depending on your political orientation, either pro-growth or pro-capital.
And on the other side- It's naive to think it wouldn't be politicized.
There are many forms of science and technology that aren't really politicized.
I don't think it's- At this level of impact?
If you look at the source of politicization at the municipal and state level, it seems to be people concerned about less maybe about their jobs, more about, say, electricity prices.
I think there's maybe an alternative timeline where the politicization of AI could have been perhaps delayed by at least two years.
I think it's frankly remarkable that it took this long for large super PACs to emerge around AI and probably could have been delayed even more.
Versus Lamanomics.
Lamanomics.
It's quite, quite the indictment of Lama rest in peace that it wasn't Lamanomics.
Oh my God.
For sure.
I also think to everyone who would say, well, you know, this is just leading to gamesmanship and leading to optimization of the wrong items.
All of these reasoning traces are fully available, presumably to meta for, to, to do meta analysis and determine whether these are just employees who are token maxing, which is the new term of art, uh,
just maximizing their token usage unproductively versus whether their reasoning traces indicate that their tokens are being productively spent.
This is all transparently available to Meta.