Nathan Labenz: evaluation

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…thought from the Vurdulak novels, where if you want to use the intelligent, really intelligent AIs, you can only do that in certain buildings. You can only do that in certain, like, secured locations. And some of us would never have dared to suggest or ask for this, even if we wanted it, because it would have sounded completely insane. But the US government might just do it anyway. But, you know, if that happens, I think that, you know, for now you have not that much choice but take it on the chin If I try to channel Balaji for a second, which I wouldn't pretend to be able to do it an A+ job of, I think he would say something like, "We all have way too much faith in the U- US government. It's going to continue to be hamfest- ham-fisted and boneheaded for the foreseeable future, and maybe it's time to exit. You know, if you really wanna make the best decisions that you can, you should try to get out from under the jurisdiction of the USG." I assume that, like, this will not happen for many reasons, but I also would expect that there would be many countries willing to open their borders to all anthropic refugees if, for example, they wanted to move to Toronto or Singapore or wherever. It does strike me that they're all, in terms of, like, their internal organizational cohesion, tight enough that I wouldn't be surprised if 90% of people actually made that leap if they were like, "We're all gonna move to Canada." I think they would, like, largely all go. Maybe I'm overestimating just how bought in they all are, but that's the impression I get. Um- Is Microsoft going to move? Is Amazon going to move? Is Google going to move? Are your data centers going to move?…

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