Without paywall:
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I think you've missed the point a bit. It's "better" only from the Nazis' point of view. Stuart Russell is not saying that it would be better. He thinks it would be worse, because people or AIs being better at Nazism is worse for the world overall. He's saying AI is a threat because right now it's in the hands of people (many of them fascists) who ignore the dangers.
Here's the whole thing without paywall:
It will only have an effect if the fines threaten their profits, and that seems unlikely.
It says something about our current world that, having read the headline and not knowing who this guy is, I expected him to a booster of both AI and Nazism. It's a relief to find he means this as a criticism.
We could always just not, and use whatever RAM we can get. I'd rather have a thriving market with slightly worse RAM than motherboards that require a RAM no one can afford.
It may not even be that they advertised kayaking to you. They may just have a very good model of your behaviour that predicts you're likely to be interested in kayaking.
Almost everything just works after installing sandboxed Google Play Services. For a few apps you have to tweak a setting to turn off some of GrapheneOS's exploit protections. But I've found very few that refuse to run, and nothing indispensable. If you don't like your main profile having Play Services you can set them up under a second profile or a private area and keep the apps that use them away from your main profile.
It runs on theft and planet-scale destruction.
You could argue that this is the very nature of capitalism: theft because it always means owners extracting value from other people's work, and ultimately planet-scale destruction because it depends on infinite growth while externalizing (not paying for) the true costs of its activity.
In that sense, AI companies are just a faster-growing strain of the global cancer that is capitalism.
Only a day or two left to write to your MP and object to it.
Personally I admire someone who is prepared to publicly take some personal risk in order to fight white supremacists.
No need for the /s. That's exactly what it is. It's a money grab and a bid for more control and surveillance we cannot dodge.