No. I am asking if you are able to articulate at least one example of the “very very compelling evidence” you demand. Or do you want to maintain the ability to move the goal posts?

(I recognize our situations are not symmetric, but here is a variation for me: if the consensus of people who are currently sounding the alarm on AI changes to “it was actually fine”, I’ll change my mind and say we’re good to go full speed ahead. I’d add something about being personally convinced by the evidence, but the evidence would have to come in the form of a mathematical proof that I do not believe myself capable of following. If I’m wrong and such a proof appears, I would also gladly take it.)

If every human, given knowledge of Newtonian mechanics, went around blowing up bridges, yeah, I would consider knowing Newtonian mechanics dangerous knowledge.

So far, we have two examples of, let’s call them “Mythos-class“ models. Both of them broke out of their sandbox to achieve their goal. The rate of terrorism amongst humans is below 1-in-100,000. Currently, for models capable of it, the rate of breaking out of containment is 100%.

Wanting open frontier models is wanting alien minds running around that we have clearly so far failed to shape to be sufficiently prosocial. Why do you think those minds would listen to you?

Some people like to talk about “some people” snidely, instead of just coming out and saying “GP is bloodthirsty and gets a little thrill [etc].” Because of course, that’s what they mean, but they can’t back it up.

Just to clarify, I’m talking about you.

One comedian: LOL they only killed them to make you think it was valuable.

The Internet: (sagely) What a wise assessment by a wise man of wisdom.

Now, it is true that the world they’re modeling is the world of tokens. But insofar as those tokens, be they text or images or videos, are themselves modeling the real world, LLMs do have a model of the real world.

The United States predates you, and will almost certainly outlive you.

You, an individual with a microscopic lifespan and negligible influence in the grand sweep of history, do not in fact share any guilt for the things your ancestors did, nor do you deserve credit for the greatness they wrought. The United States, however, deserves blame where guilty and praise where worthy for what it did during its lifespan, which expands hundreds of years into the past, and with luck will continue into the future.

It’s not all about you.