Carl Müller-Crepon

@carlmc.bsky.social

Human, Learner, Voyager, Citizen. Polisci research on the state, development, and conflict. Assistant Professor @ LSE Department of Government. Previously Oxford and ETH Zurich. http://carl.muller-crepon.com/

@drodrik.bsky.socialReposted by @carlmc.bsky.social

This seems to me to get it exactly right and obviously applies beyond mathematics: solving a problem is not the same as developing conceptual understanding and insight, and might even come at the expense of it.

@opinionhaver.bsky.socialReposted by @carlmc.bsky.social

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@carlmc.bsky.social

that makes sense - for the lock-in, the question would be if you could do your job in 5 years without these tools or whether you've lost *certain* skills in the process? (lock-in is of course totally natural, no farmer could work without tractors today! Problem arises when there's no competition...)

@carlmc.bsky.social

(obv, this is the *big players* ideal scenario and is something that can be avoided through political mobilization in favor of regulation for the social good that make societies less vulnerable to such a dependency)

@carlmc.bsky.social

Once that is achieved, prices go up and quality decreases, leaving huge profits and making life harder for everyone with little to do about it as it's hard to retrain the skills we have lost on the way.

@carlmc.bsky.social

The political risk of regulatory capture by the AI inustry is really compounding with the risk of user-lock-in. The big players' ideal scenario would be that AI is indispensable in life and workflows (after eroding human education and training) and regulated as to become an uncompetitive market.

@elizabethbitmeehan.comReposted by @carlmc.bsky.social

Stigler doesn’t get you everywhere but it gets you a lot of places a lot of the time

www.jstor.org/stable/3003160

The theory of economic regulation George J. Stigler The University of Chicago The potential uses of public resources and powers to improve the economic status of economic groups (such as industries and occupa- tions) are analyzed to provide a scheme of the demand for regulation. The characteristics of the political process which allow relatively small groups to obtain such regulation is then sketched to provide elements of a theory of supply of regulation. A variety of empirical evidence and illustration is also presented. • The state-the machinery and power of the states a potential insurance have their more modest repast. The central tasks of the theory of economic regulation are to explain who will receive the benefits or burdens of regulation, what form regulation will take, and the effects of regulation upon the allocation of resources. Regulation may be actively sought by an industry, or it may be thrust upon it. A central thesis of this paper is that, as a rule, regula- tion is acquired by the industry and is designed and operated pri- marily for its benefit. There are regulations whose net effects upon the regulated industry are undeniably onerous; a simple example is the differentially heavy taxation of the industry's product (whiskey, playing cards). These onerous regulations, however, are exceptional and can be explained by the same theory that explains beneficial (we may call it "acquired"') regulation.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com

OpenAI and Anthropic executives are sounding the alarm about the rise of cheap AI, particularly powerful new models produced in China, suggesting they will lead to a “dystopian” AI future and present unacceptable security risks without regulation.

on.wsj.comTop American AI Execs Sound Alarm on Chinese ModelsThe White House is divided on how to respond to recent advances in Chinese AI and has weighed crackdown measures.