Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident

[Original here. Like a Highlights From The Comments post, but including discussion from around the Internet.]Roon is an OpenAI researcher whose popular Twitter presence has catapulted him to the status of extremely-unofficial company representative. He seems spooked:…leading to a conversation with Geoffrey Irving, formerly of the UK’s AI Security Institute:I side with Geoffrey in hating the word “magic”. I remember when arguments about AI were things like “Sure, if you could magically get billions of dollars of compute, and magically scale AI up a thousand times, and magically get rid of hallucinations…” and the whole implausibility hinged on the word “magic”! Then companies, using normal non-magical methods, got billions of dollars of compute, and scaled up the AI a thousand times, and significantly decreased hallucinations, and that was always allowed! As Irving points out, there are plenty of good specific plans for how a global capabilities slowdown could be arranged.But I side…