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GPR (not to be confused with GPT) -<br>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:a5c0b608-9d1f-5874-c1ae-3f2979ea27e2@gmail.com">It's
ridiculous. Suddenly, I feel more akin to that Chinese guy who
GE'd some babies ... or the biohackers growing glowing dogs in
their shed. You can't control people with open letters and calls
to "good behavior". <br>
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<p>It is definitely "toothless" a bit like the "thoughts and
prayers" we throw at school shootings... (nearly daily now?)<br>
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<p>and then we have the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/timeline/">Doomsday
Clock</a>... which added climate change to it's calculus of
doom but haven't tossed AI (et al.) in yet.</p>
<p>We *do* seem to have some (weak/partial/??) extant mechanisms for
collective self-regulation, but at some level, I think it always
grounds out in *some* form of coercion at some scale? I don't
think authors of Open Letters think that they their
pre/pro-scriptions will be followed as a direct consequence. But
*does* the public airing of a "dire caution" have any feedback
effect, or is it in fact just "meh"?</p>
<p>I'm a Luddite at heart so their appeal appealed to me, but thjen
*I'm* not developing these tools (even if I am engaged in guerilla
"socratic engineering")!</p>
<p>meh,</p>
<p> - Steve<br>
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