Comment by quirtt on What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like · 2024-01-23T20:08:56.850Z · LW · GW

Yeah, I agree, this is not focussed on enough. I was thinking about this sometime back and:

The obvious counter is "there can exist evil players". The counter-counter to that is: well – there can exist evil players (say, terrorists) making nuclear bombs as well. But we don't see that, do we? Why? Because the materials/knowledge/training required to make that is highly protected. 

We could definitely try to replicate that strategy. Make the GPUs a protected item: say, only X for personal use. And cap the amount of units you can buy for commercial purposes as well. It needs governance efforts. Seems very feasible to me. 

 

But Alignment as an intellectual problem is so very interesting that I don't think I would want to contribute to activism. Maybe I do care more about "working on something interesting" more than "saving the world". Ah, well.