In a revealing clip from today's debate, Guillaume Verdon (@BasedBeffJezos) gets asked by Connor Leahy (@NPCollapse) whether the United States should make the F-16's blueprints open source.
Guillaume's position appears to be:
Access to arbitrarily destructive weapons shouldn't be restricted by a central government, as long as we have a central government that has exclusive access to more destructive weapons.
If I'm understanding Guillaume correctly, he's endorsing a policy of allowing any local militia to purchase a 15-kiloton atom bomb like the one that wiped out Hiroshima because, after all, the U.S. government has since built an arsenal of thermonuclear bombs that are each as destructive as 1,000 Hiroshimas.
…Which means the e/acc position doesn't pass a basic sanity check.
NOTE: Connor knows that any discussion around “who should get to control the superintelligent AGI” is likely moot; we'll probably die at the hands of a rogue uncontrollable AI. But when evaluating non-doomers' arguments, it's useful to first test whether they even understand what policy we need to stay alive in a world where AGI isn't uncontrollable, but is merely a very powerful weapon that humans can aim (and works better as a weapon than a shield).
