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Let's assume it works. So then ultra-religious authoritarians own part of AGI.

Sounds great!?

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It really doesn't change much.

Please explain. People are upset about "woke" ChatGPT, because they have the comfort of that first-world problem.

Thing is, it can actually get much worse than optimizing for inclusion. Do we really want Sharia authoritarian AGI?

Or am I misunderstanding what you are saying with your terse reply?

We're talking about chips: stuff optimized for inference and training. It may have a lot of memory, it may be able to perform a lot of operations, but it would be difficult for it to enforce high-level concepts like "woke ChatGPT".

Are you telling me that the investors who give sama $trillions don't expect influence on the final product?

Isn't this the definition of soft power? [0]

When NVIDIA sells GH200s to OpenAI, they expect nothing beyond the transaction. That's very different from getting trillions of dollars in investment from somebody to build chip fabs, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power

I meant that the "first world" isn't as fair as you think it is, this should be especially clear now.

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