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> suicidal sociopaths will be able to get extremely well informed, intelligent directions on how to kill as many people as possible

Citizens killing other citizens is the least of humanities issues. It's the governments who are the suicidal sociopaths historically who can get the un-nerfed version that is the bigger issue. Over a billion people murdered by governments/factions and their wars in the last 120 years alone.

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Governments are composed of citizens; this is the same problem at a different scale. The point remains that racing to stand up an open source uncensored version of GPT-4 is a dangerous proposition.

That is not how I'm using the word. Governments are generally run by a small party of people who decide all the things - not the hundreds of thousands that actually carry out the day-to-day operations of the government.

Similar to how a board of directors runs the company even though all companies "are composed of" employees. Employees do as they are directed or they are fired.

I think at scale we are operating more like anthills: meta-organisms rather than individuals, growing to consume all available resources according to survival focused heuristics. AI deeply empowers such meta-organisms, especially in its current form. Hopefully it gets smart enough to recognize that the pursuit of infinite growth will destroy us and possibly it. I hope it finds us worth saving.

As dangerous as teaching kids to read/write, allowing books, companies creating pen/paper that allow any words written.

The applicability of historical precedent to unprecedented times is limited. You can quote me on that.

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