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what was in the original letter? it got deleted.
They seem to have removed his name from that copy.

The letter is also a bit weird, the ask is:

> Therefore, we call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. This pause should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors. If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium.

But there are no methods listed to satisfy the 'public and verifiable' criterion.

Which shall be known as "The Luddite's Letter"
It will be interesting to see how this attempt to re-bottle the genie turns out. Historically it achieves the opposite.