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To grieve, or not to grieve?

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  1. smitty1e · · focus · HN ↗
    It's much less the mechanism of AI than the potential policy implications.

    That much concentrated data/compute is Checkov's Gun[0].

    To assume we can find some policy lock for that gun is to believe the laws against murder preclude violence.

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