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The EU once again races toward premature regulation. Europe's tech sector will continue to wither as America and others surge ahead. You can't regulate your w
by mgdev 2y ago
The EU once again races toward premature regulation.
Europe's tech sector will continue to wither as America and others surge ahead.
You can't regulate your way to technological leadership.
- justonceokay 2y agoI think in the medium-term future we will have our own real-life Butlerian Jihad against thinking machines. Maybe they won’t be outright banned, but there needs to be some conservative force that pushes back against progress for the sake of “because we can”. Is this legislation premature? Maybe. But I don’t think it will be the last or the the most comprehensive within our lifetimes.
- kvgr 2y agoAnd China will have none of that and will remove us from the face of earth.
- justonceokay 2y agoWhy would they do that? Are we trying to remove Chinese people from earth and they might retaliate?
- Nasrudith 2y agoWhy the fuck do people cite the Butlerian jihad as a good thing instead of what it is: stupidity writ large? "There must always be a lich king" logic in play. No, there really fucking doesn't.
- justonceokay 2y agoWho is the lich king? I’m not following
- qoez 2y agoIf you read the list of unacceptable things they're actually super reasonable and kinda crazy to think american companies will be allowed to (and probably will) participate in
- mgdev 2y agoAbsent examples of concrete impact (damage), it's arbitrary fear mongering. You can write about anything to make it sound bad, even when it's good, and vice versa. Need to focus on outcomes.
- Timshel 2y agoYeah let's wait until more "AI that tries to infer people’s emotions at work or school." or "AI that manipulates a person’s decisions subliminally or deceptively." are deployed and start spamming crap before making any regulation ...
- mgdev 2y agoYou're describing every ML ranking system.