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Plausibly there is a disagreement about the release of GPT-5. One side may believe it is competitively necessary (given Google’s impending release), countered by a concern regarding the model’s safety and lapses due to prematurity.
If we are to believe next-gen models are 10x as capable and natively multi-modal, their release is a precipice, and a winner-take-all vs. nth-order-risk debate may warrant decapitation.
If you're interested, see https://news.artnet.com/art-world/brauer-museum-controversia... for a recent example.
I'm still coming to the opposite conclusion: For example, as a web admin, it would be useful to me to block requests that forge the User Agent. In your mind, is this a white or black list?
I disagree with your characterization of metal detectors defining success on approval. Consider the practical difficulty of defining a whitelist of every possible piece of "approved clothing" compared to a blacklist of known knowns (e.g. guns, knives, poison, etc.).
2. I think we're in agreement that who is permitted as a legitimate attestor is a core issue. I wouldn't ultimately conclude that it must be Google, although many web admins would be satisfied with that.
The Web Environment Integrity proposal isn't much different than requiring that, in order to receive an email, the sender both secures their machine with anti-virus and provides proof to you, the receiver, that the message in question is virus-free. Otherwise, without this proof, you won't accept the message.
Metal detectors and the requirement to pass through one to enter certain, defined spaces are probably the physical analogy that people are most familiar with.
In parallel, there are communities of builders working on the post-jpeg future. Check out https://partialcommonownership.com, for example.
Ultimately the nature of codifying altruism in the law is that someone must sacrifice for someone else; the sacrificer and as well as the recipient of the sacrifice are subject to an Overton window.
If society decides that a sacrifice should be made in favor of a disabled Uber customer, society should incur that cost and compensate the Uber driver the market rate for their time.
Wait fees, in this case, are not being used (in the abstract) to discriminate because there is an time cost inherent in this business model that somebody needs to inur.
- How should a person with disabilities indicate that they have a disability requiring extra time in a fraud proof manner?
- Should all disabilities be treated equally?
- Who decides how much time should be granter per?
- Should this same policy apply to people with ephemeral injuries?
- Should Uber compensate the driver for this extra time to ensure the driver is still incentivized to pick up people with disabilities?
- Why, ethically, should this cost fall on Uber instead of the driver? Either way an inefficient market is being created here because the government is stepping in and saying that a transaction made between two rational actors is unfair even if those parties agree to the terms of the transaction (unless Uber is a monopoly). If the driver is not compensated fairly for their time, why is this sacrifice ethically permissible?