I might be reading too much into this, but the word “legitimate” in “legitimate global regulatory efforts” feels weird here. Like… the idea that “if you, a private AI lab, try to unilaterally stop everyone else from building AI, they will notice and get mad at you” is really important. But the word “legitimate” brings to mind a sort of global institutional-management-nomenklatura class using the word as a status club to go after anything it doesn’t like. If eg. you developed a COVID test during 2020, one might say “this test doesn’t work” or “this test has bad side effects” or “the FDA hasn’t approved it, they won’t let you sell this test” or “my boss won’t let me build this test at our company”; but saying “this test isn’t legitimate” feels like a conceptual smudge that tries to blend all those claims together, as if each implied all of the others.
saying “this test isn’t legitimate” feels like a conceptual smudge that tries to blend all those claims together, as if each implied all of the others.
This is my favorite piece of feedback on this post so far, and I agree with it; thanks!
To clarify what I meant, I’ve changed the text to read “making evidence available to support global regulatory efforts from a broader base of consensual actors (see Part 3).”
I might be reading too much into this, but the word “legitimate” in “legitimate global regulatory efforts” feels weird here. Like… the idea that “if you, a private AI lab, try to unilaterally stop everyone else from building AI, they will notice and get mad at you” is really important. But the word “legitimate” brings to mind a sort of global institutional-management-nomenklatura class using the word as a status club to go after anything it doesn’t like. If eg. you developed a COVID test during 2020, one might say “this test doesn’t work” or “this test has bad side effects” or “the FDA hasn’t approved it, they won’t let you sell this test” or “my boss won’t let me build this test at our company”; but saying “this test isn’t legitimate” feels like a conceptual smudge that tries to blend all those claims together, as if each implied all of the others.
This is my favorite piece of feedback on this post so far, and I agree with it; thanks!
To clarify what I meant, I’ve changed the text to read “making evidence available to support global regulatory efforts from a broader base of consensual actors (see Part 3).”