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  • Oooh ok, dead in the water even if we pretended that any party would be able to pass the filibuster after midterms

    Speaking of which, doesn’t this bill die after midterms anyway?

    So this is just the bonus round where every inane idea gets introduced for the headline before being reset

  • I propose an amendement with Death Sentence with Lethal injection, 20 years in jail is not enough if we follow the gradation of sentences.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_injection

  • I assume the US will also ban the use for foreign models as part of this.

    Pausing development means the people with the currently most advanced models are shielded from competition, especially if foreign competition is not allowed.

    A new agency will impose heavy regulation which can easily be twisted to favour incumbents.

  • And members of the Dems give further gifts to the opponents.

    Question: how aware are they?

    Given the missed "intellectual solidity" of the submitted proposal, there is a chance that their effective support to the other party is not conscious.

    And in terms of civilization, the confrontation is downgraded to ventral partitism, hysterical: "not like it" vs "really want it or do not mind".

  • Okay that kicks the can down the road, but what will we do twenty years from now?
  • Man, it would be awesome if I could tell my boss “No, I don’t want to go to prison for 20 years” when they ask me if some magical AI thing can be done.
    by fwlr
  • How do we stop china and russia from developing it? How come nobody seems to be talking about the obvious international treaty that would be necessary to actually ban superintelligence from being developed? At least we can deliberate some kind of enforcement mechanism in the process...

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