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Please don't do this. We're currently on an ok trajectory. You will end up creating exactly what you fear if you centralize compute and alignment efforts. Pretrained base models are already …

I was agreeing with you that age verification is not the way to go, but your solution to "make the platform safe for everyone" would centralize the power to determine what is/isn't…

That's still treating the symptom. Regulating the entire Internet's platforms would end up creating a surveillance state. And the big companies would find some way to worm out of it, or simp…

Parents generally have their own children's best interests in mind. If you personally have kids, feel free to delegate responsibility to someone else, since you believe that you're shitty to…

The video is not AI-generated. Animal intelligence is closer to human intelligence than many people would like to admit, and evolution did not make any sudden jumps. I wonder what happens if you give …

Qwen3.8 is, but DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 is not open weights yet, though they do have a good track record. Grok would be the best open-weights model if they released the weights right now. Elon supported …

It doesn't seem like Grok is being astroturfed, if anything the opposite. There are two Chinese models on the front page while this is on the second page as of writing. And there would always be …

Yeah, the First Amendment applies to children after all. We shouldn't give the government, tech companies, or even parents total control over children's online communications. The only excep…

The part of my comment that you quoted is exactly the reason why the Illinois law is a First Amendment violation, and why the California one is borderline. And as far as I'm aware, there are no o…

> No. It solves exactly the problem I described. The problem you described is the wrong problem to solve. Not all parents want to hand over parental decision making to the corporation or the stat…

I disagree with your understanding of COPPA, but I'm not going to repeatedly argue over the precise boundries of COPPA because that's not the point. COPPA is not a First Amendment violation …

AB 1043 doesn't solve anything. It just delegates parental responsibility to the tech companies - you're giving them your child's age and letting them decide what's good for the ki…

They do not mandate what x is, but they do mandate that you must say a specific age in any Internet-capable OS, and that age must be communicated to any software asking for it. Either comply with the …

I also have a proposal for lawmakers. It's simpler, and it will address the digital parenting problem from the root, and also solve a bunch of other societal problems in the process: use antitrus…

The things you've listed are obviously reasonable, but the laws being proposed for digital parenting are very much not the same as those benign, locally-implemented guardrails. Take the recent Il…

That doesn't change the fact that you're being forced to utter an age bracket in order to communicate digitally. It's the digital equivalent of having your mouth, eyes, and ears taped s…

Big tech companies aside, the broader tech community did not fail to engage on the digital parenting problem. We could've solved this problem long ago before anyone even noticed it, but we'r…

We should not ignore it, but firmly dismiss it with reason. The recent Illinois law that applies to all Internet-capable operating systems is blatantly unconstitutional. People should not be forced by…

This is worse than the California one. Since this applies to all Internet-capable operating systems, it's effectively forcing people to utter their age bracket in order to communicate digitally, …

While this is true, it's not an all-or-nothing game. A little bit of countersurveillance is better than none, even if you're not that savvy. We can win by gradually raising the per capita co…

That's a somewhat accurate description, and you could even replace "society" with "universe". But what I'm defending is precisely the apparent feeling of autonomy, which …

It's not just the government. The government sneakily adds stuff they think only they can exploit, but skilled non-state actors can exploit hardware features regardless of whether it was put ther…

For better or for worse, this is valid criticism. Ensuring alignment to the human individual is not even a software-only problem, and I suspect gwern doesn't realize this yet. Your individual sov…

This is the correct intuition. The problem can be solved with antitrust by forcing hardware vendors to ship their devices without an operating system . Then the market will deliver the parenting solu…

> So saying "we should allow unfettered access to the internet" or even "it's the parents' responsibility" is naive, dismissive and has failed. The market failure to…

You compare LLMs to spellcheckers, but they are clearly very different in capability at this point. These agents are becoming more human-like and "just a tool" is no longer a fair characteri…

Correct observations. But have you wondered why those solutions are ineffective? Kids nowadays use phones and tablets for the most part. They don't even know how to use a computer that well and a…