> You talk about other systems that end in autocracy, and/or misery but capitalism does too.

No it doesn't, that's crazy. The United States is the longest continuous democracy in the entire world.

> The answer ultimately lies in regulations, and making economic equality the top priority.

No, the richest and most powerful countries with the highest median quality of life are the ones that prioritize growth, not equality. Prioritizing equality gets you the Soviet Union. Prioritizing growth gets you the United States.

> Greed is just another addiction, no different than heroin

The difference is that greed, when channeled through capitalism, creates value for everyone. Jeff Bezos wasn't an altruist when he founded Amazon, but the result is that everyone in the United States can have just about anything they want delivered to their door in a couple of days for free. Steve Jobs was a greedy, rapacious capitalist, but he gave us the iPhone. Etc.

An alternative take is that even with a nutty would-be authoritarian president who literally tried to overturn an election, the system was resilient enough to toss him out of power right on time, with no indications that he came anywhere close to succeeding.

But yes, I agree that Kim Jong-Un is a good example of what you get with alternatives to capitalism.

> Any other proposition will sound ridiculous to you, because all we have ever known is capitalism.

We've seen some other propositions. The problem is that they all end in immiseration and authoritarianism, and the logic of why they do makes sense, so the proponents of further experiments have their work cut out justifying why their path won't lead to the same place, and they should think about how to run small-scale experiments to prove their ideas before putting whole societies at risk.

> I feel that the real challenge is to control language models using structured data, perform planning, etc.

I think the promise of tool-equipped LLMs is that these tools may be able to serve that sort of purpose (as well as, like, being calculators and running wikipedia queries). Could imagine an LLM using a database module as a long-term memory, to keep a list of instrumental goals, etc.. You could even give it access to a module that lets it fine-tune itself or create successor LLMs in some manner. All very speculative of course.

Do a two-step. Summarize each paper so the summaries all fit into the context window, then have it compare and contrast.

Yes, 100% agree. This "can we coerce the model into saying something bad" is just a game that journalists play to catastrophize new technology and juice their engagement metrics. There's bad stuff on the internet, too, and you can find it with search engines. We still use search engines because they're incredibly useful.

The embarrassing part is that Google was so afraid of these BS stories that they kept LaMDA stuck in a warehouse for over two years while OpenAI and Microsoft lapped them.

They should be scared of both. OpenAI is capable of scaling ChatGPT and packaging a good consumer app themselves. Bing gets them faster distribution but it isn't like OpenAI is a paper tiger. Google wouldn't be able to compete with either of them in the long term if it continued to refuse to ship its own LLMs.

OpenAI is powering Bing's forthcoming AI features

> but they included an option to turn it off

They did not include an option to turn it off. They released it as open-source software, which lets people modify it themselves, including by turning it off.

Certainly the RIAA is trying to claim that training a machine learning model on music constitutes copyright infringement.

Then again, back in the day they also tried to claim that ripping a CD constituted copyright infringement, and that didn't work out for them either.

UK has never encountered a social ill that they won't try to solve with more censorship. The details don't seem to get in the way.

> Really, the simplest and cheapest solution is the best solution even if it's really slow.

Also gets points for not putting exotic chemicals in our foods and groundwater