"For those of you using GPT 5.6 Sol today to get work done: remember, if it were up to people like Dario, GPT 2 could not have been released, and if it were up to the AI 2040 crowd, we'd now have a totalitarian world government run by EAs to "protect us". You have these wonderful tools, and..."
...indeed, you have individual freedom, only because such people have failed so far. But they have not given up, and the fight continues; constant vigilance is the price of a society not run by those people "for our own good". They are a threat not only because they would shut down AI research but because in order to do it they would happily turn the world into a nightmarish horror. "For our own good", of course. — Perry E. Metzger "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive... [T]hose who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis — Chuck McKinnon That quote keeps echoing in my head. — Perry E. Metzger
Source: https://x.com/perrymetzger/status/2076652341948752030