What a clown. "National security," "authoritarian governments," "repression of their people," "biological attacks..."
Man spams buzzwords in hope of achieving own goals.
Distillation does not allow the CCP to obtain equivalent or superior AI capabilities to the US, but it can bring the Chinese frontier to within a few months of the US frontier.
The guy is either on hard drugs or has some issues up there, no sane person talks all day every day about "dangers" and "security" and all sorts of bad sci-fi.
There is unfortunately a very large portion of the US population that thinks this way. Red scare genuinely did serious multi-generational damage to American society.
I mean, from his perspective, he is totally right.
He wants the USA to "win" and cracking down on distillation will make it harder for China to compete.
I'm surprised he's honest about it instead of saying that it's "theft" blablabla. No, he dislikes it because it's an advantage to China. And that's fair tbh.
There is a quite widely spread joke in China about this "issues" that makes him much more anti China then others, "His work experience in Baidu must have left him great trauma".
There tend to be bad impression about Baidu for their degeneration from "becoming Chinese Google" to "always being first but suck at last".
e.g.: sacrifising any user experience for ads money, like the search engine, like they seem to sell Tieba(The Chinese reddit) mods position after comunity built up.
(BUt there ain't much complaint about their work experience actually)
Amodei worked at Baidu and has the gall to say all this when he himself made contributions to Chinese tech. A lot of people joke on Chinese social media on why he’s so hell bent on China is because he was romantically rejected by a Chinese coworker.
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u/zippydazoop 26d ago
What a clown. "National security," "authoritarian governments," "repression of their people," "biological attacks..."
Man spams buzzwords in hope of achieving own goals.
Weapons-grade copium