Yeah, I’m confused to think about who has got the weirder society. dath ilan has more global guardrails yet invests more into experiments. We’ve got fewer guardrails, but also a load of random “you can’t sell that” rules. I think (?) that reddit doesn’t exist in their world, or the free sex movement you mention, etc. So in some ways we’re less ethically constrained, allowing us to find weird niches.
‘You’re allowed to do what you want, provided you don’t learn anything or produce wealth in the process’, vs. ‘You’re allowed to do what you want, provided you learn something or produce wealth in the process’.
“We have trained GPT-3 on all of reddit, and unleashed it for the population to use. Here are the freaking weird and beautiful and terrifying things that happened.” vs “No we didn’t do that because we’re more careful and sensible.”
Yeah, I’m confused to think about who has got the weirder society. dath ilan has more global guardrails yet invests more into experiments. We’ve got fewer guardrails, but also a load of random “you can’t sell that” rules. I think (?) that reddit doesn’t exist in their world, or the free sex movement you mention, etc. So in some ways we’re less ethically constrained, allowing us to find weird niches.
‘You’re allowed to do what you want, provided you don’t learn anything or produce wealth in the process’, vs. ‘You’re allowed to do what you want, provided you learn something or produce wealth in the process’.
“We have trained GPT-3 on all of reddit, and unleashed it for the population to use. Here are the freaking weird and beautiful and terrifying things that happened.” vs “No we didn’t do that because we’re more careful and sensible.”