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Shared emphasis To Make AI Rules, Policymakers Must Resist the Influence of ‘Radical Intentionalists’ Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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radical intentionalists AI rules essay

To Make AI Rules, Policymakers Must Resist the Influence of ‘Radical Intentionalists’

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Justin Hendrix, Tech Policy Press
“A "radical intentionalist," writes Eryk Salvaggio, treats an AI model as a 'mind' to be interpreted rather than a product that was designed. It is "a strange and dangerous relationship for designers to have with a product they are literally designing," he w…” evidence ↗
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Justin Hendrix Eryk Salvaggio Tech Policy Press Frank Pasquale e.w. niedermeyer VE, cybersocial occult investigator Rosamunde Van Brakel Stefanie Hane
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“A "radical intentionalist," writes Eryk Salvaggio, treats an AI model as a 'mind' to be interpreted rather than a product that was designed. It is "a strange and dangerous relationship for designers to have with a product they are literally designing," he w…”

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e.w. niedermeyer: at this point, my entire AI take is: save your "alignment," what I want is accountability
e.w. niedermeyer: the material differences between guns and AI models are pretty clear, and the obvious precedent here seems to be animals: if you trained an animal to bite (or raised a wild animal) and kept it insu…
Eryk Salvaggio: Oh, to be clear, I don't think LLMs or agentic systems operate "at random." I am using random-firing-guns to illustrate the concept of a mechanism that is out of human control, and how human accoun…
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4 experts · 45 posts · 2d ago
VE, cybersocial occult investigator tweety fish Nathalie Maréchal, PhD Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
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“When they say things like they expect there is a 10% chance that AI wipes out humanity in a decade, you should not take that as bullshit that undermines their seriousness; you should take that as t…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Context & explanation · 1
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: One of the problems with the AI industry being run by apocalyptic millenarian cultists isn’t that their end of the world scenarios are made up; it’s that like other similar millennialists, they thi…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: This also notably applies to the AI doomers. They are equally trying to immanentize their imagined eschaton; they just have a negatively stated emotional valence towards it.
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4 experts · 15 posts · 3d ago
Olivia Guest Hypervisible Luke Stark VE, cybersocial occult investigator
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“One of my long-standing complaints with the pro-AI world is how their complaint that anti-AI people and the left "need better critics" is clearly a reflection of themselves not having read the actu…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: One of my long-standing complaints with the pro-AI world is how their complaint that anti-AI people and the left "need better critics" is clearly a reflection of themselves not having read the actu…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: It's way easier to shadowbox with a guy you made up in your head than to do the reading and engage with it honestly, but you do you.
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3 experts · 9 posts · 5d ago
Hypervisible Hagen Blix VE, cybersocial occult investigator
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“The total cybernetic control of society through surveillance, modeling, and prediction is the holy grail of AI and the ideological capstone of the social and political project it affords.” evidence ↗
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VE, cybersocial occult investigator: The total cybernetic control of society through surveillance, modeling, and prediction is the holy grail of AI and the ideological capstone of the social and political project it affords.
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: To the degree Roko’s basilisk does stand in as a proxy for a joint ideological commitment in tech, I think some significant number of tech people implicitly believe in a devil’s bargain that if the…
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3 experts · 8 posts · 4d ago
VE, cybersocial occult investigator Pavel Teresa Heffernan
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“And I think, this also goes some way to explain how AI fears and the general obsession with technicized surveillance and labor disciplining have come to stand in for a suppressed supremacist identi…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Silicon Valley is primarily an industry of vanity lifestyle businesses based on selection for social and cultural affinity, but which heavily propagandizes its bourgeois small-business owner class …
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Under this reading, it’s very clear how you get a parallel between the well documented economic class and social type of participants in the January 6 insurrection and the hard turn towards technof…
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