"There are two views about the future of AI. There are the people who think that you can control technological progress, centrally plan it, channel it down narrow pathways, decide who will get a say in it. This was Yudkowsky’s insane fever dream. This is impossible. It was always impossible...."
...There was never any possibility of it happening. There are eight billion people on this planet, and they will do what they want, not what you want. Utopia is not an option, it was never an option, but you can cause an incredible amount of damage trying to achieve it. Then there are the people who accept that you cannot perfectly predict the future, that you cannot centrally plan the future, that there will be many players in any technological revolution, that mistakes will be made, that mistakes will be compensated for, that people will figure things out as they go along, that mostly things will be okay, that there is no other realistic pathway. We will muddle through as always, doing our best in an imperfect world, and it will be fine. (Indeed, it will be better than fine.) You can dislike this second viewpoint, or you can embrace it, and it doesn’t make any difference, because it’s the only way that anything ever happens. The universe doesn’t care what you prefer. Accept it, or don’t accept it, it will do what it’s going to do whether you want it or not. — Perry E. Metzger
Source: https://x.com/perrymetzger/status/2081199432196927925