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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @Cje95 11h \ on: Revived ~ai meta
So happy for this! Working in AI policy for Congress I thought of bringing it back but tbh the cost was out of reach for me. Can’t wait to add posts in the future!
Awesome. I pray for a very lean and permissive policy. Please don't forget that any country full of free people with sovereign AI will beat any 10x or even 100x larger country with permissioned, state-sponsored AI.
If anyone can champion more Open Source, less Sam Altman, it's the USA, because Europe is too scared, Russia too poor AND distracted and China too controlling. All it needs is to just say no when Sam needs a handout, or Zuck, or Elon; if the government is agnostic to the player, more players will emerge. This is how the US came out on top in the first place; study the history of semiconductors in Russia; never take my word or anyone else's. Check out huggingface - an American FOSS AI initiative - where you can see the magnitude of open source AI in all it's glory.
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Not sure if you saw but Sweden called for the EU to stop its AI rules because of how they have choked out the competition. Mistrial has been looking to move to the US for a reason.
Huggingface is actually someone we met with a TONNNNN last year! I staffed the House Bipartisan AI Taskforce and actually was credited in it so I know them well! Anthropic has been probably the biggest person who is consistently contacting us atm
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Not sure if you saw
Saw it now, I'm now the happy recipient of all ~ai notifications, lol
Sweden called for the EU to stop its AI rules
The EU really is a mess. Many people are ready to roll up their sleeves but the bureaucracy kills everything. Brexit does that to a union - that loss seems like a win to some member states but the balance is gone... kaput. Sweden is one of the more liberty loving states in the EU nowadays, there are others too and the strive for liberty is growing, but there's still Germany and France - and on the topic of AI, Italy - that are extremely anti-liberty when it comes to enforcing "zhe rules" as strict as possible because we have to protect the 0.0001% of people with deep mental birth defects by treating everyone equally to that.
[Mistral] has been looking to move to the US for a reason.
They're not wrong. France is fucking terrible. I know a lot of people there and it's a hard life. All the duties, but benefits are meager and if they grow too fast, you'll just be taxed to the point that it becomes meager. Same in Belgium but there you just get taxed as if you were a billionaire and Bernie was your emperor no matter how much you earn.
But: the US has work to do. The trick is to reduce harm, attract growth. Honest players won't be scared by plain (legal) liabilities, just don't overdo it, like Biden almost killing US bitcoin. Scammers will if they can be held liable for their stuff. It's important that there aren't any crony privileged people, which - at least for a while, I haven't asked him where he's at on it - even Elon thought about Sam Altman. That has to go, even if it's just perception.
Huggingface is actually someone we met with a TONNNNN last year!
Huggingface is awesome. It's the premier reason why I have faith in humanity when it comes to AI, because of all the people publishing their stuff because that platform enabled them. I'm truly an "AI" skeptic because I know how people get exploited (e.g. #1013688), as I've worked in the bad (=exploitative, proprietary) flavor of (fin)tech for over 20 years before I defected and made what used to be hobby (FOSS) the standard in my life, 13 years ago now (yes, I'm almost a boomer.) But the open source movement around it is awesome, and there are many people that just want to contribute to progress and efficiency. These people are the real heroes.
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