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0 pointsianm2185d ago0 comments

If you think the field you are working in is more dangerous and important to the future of national security than i.e. nuclear energy and nuclear bombs you should really not just shut up and act like a cold blooded capitalist.

It feels like people here are not able to separate their personal dislike of the effective altruist types from a real debate on how big the stakes of AI are.

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transcriptase5d ago· 3 in thread

It’s tough to separate with them because “for the greater good” and “saving people from themselves” has historically not gone over well, especially when we all know it’s a veneer and get cold blooded capitalism.

tiahura5d ago

Seems to work pretty well at keeping people from playing around with anthrax and fully automatic weapons.

christophilus5d ago

Dunno about anthrax, but fully automated weapons are really easy to come by.

ianm218OP5d ago

> especially when we all know it’s a veneer and get cold blooded capitalism

This is what I don’t really get about the AI discourse… I don’t have any reason to think this is all a veneer over capitalism. We don’t know what goes on in their head but the track record of the cofounders of Anthropic is quite honest so it feels like a conspiracy theory to suggest they are purposefully getting themselves nationalized when the simplest answer is that there is real documented concern on AI safety risk

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