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You can have an arbitrarily low opinion of Trump and still trust in democracy as a form of government over autocracy or oligarchy, which is what the AI labs hav
by Marsymars 4d ago
You can have an arbitrarily low opinion of Trump and still trust in democracy as a form of government over autocracy or oligarchy, which is what the AI labs have.
- ryandrake 4d agoExactly. No matter how bad Trump is, millions of American people at least voted / vouched for him. Nobody voted for Elon Musk, Sam Altman, or any other CEO to have as much power as they have. Maybe a handful of shareholders. Totally unelected and unapproved by the public, but run companies that affect most of the public's lives.
- int_19h 3d agoYou can have abstract trust in democracy over autocracy, but this is not an abstract question - these are the actual choices. Does it really matter if the person who will use AI to fuck us has a "democratic mandate" to do so? We're fucked either way.
- Marsymars 3d agoIt's less the mandate that matters, but the fact that they can be removed from power.
- cmrdporcupine 3d agoYou don't speak for anybody outside of your borders, so please stop trying to. The majority of the world will refuse to be subject to American AI laws under the control of the US gov't, whether it pretends to be democratic or not. Or should.
- Marsymars 3d ago> You don't speak for anybody outside of your borders, so please stop trying to. FWIW, I'm not American and refuse to step foot within American borders while Trump is in power.