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$$$ vs. Safety -> $$$ wins. Employees who have $$$ incentive threaten to quit if that is taken away. News at 8.
by jejeyyy77 3y ago
$$$ vs. Safety -> $$$ wins.
Employees who have $$$ incentive threaten to quit if that is taken away. News at 8.
- baby 3y agoWhy are you assuming employees are incentivized by $$$ here, and why do you think the board's reason is related to safety or that employees don't care about safety? It just looks like you're spreading FUD at this point.
- jejeyyy77 3y agoof course the employees are motivated by $$$ - is that even a question?
- Xelynega 3y agoNo, it's just counter to the idea that it was "employee power" that brought sam back. It was capital and the pursuit of more of it. It always is.
- hackerlight 3y agoThe large majority of people are motivated by $$$ (or fame) and if they all tell me otherwise I know many of them are lying.
- mi_lk 3y agoIt's you who are naive if you really think the majority of those 7xx employees care more about safe AGI than their own equity upside
- nh23423fefe 3y agoWhy would anyone care about safe agi? its vaporware.
- mecsred 3y agoEverything is vaporware until it gets made. If you wait until a new technology definitively exists to start caring about safety, you have guaranteed it will be unsafe. Lucky for us this fiasco has nothing to do with AGI safety, only AI technology. Which only affects automated decision making in technology that's entrenched in every fact of our lives. So we're all safe here!
- superturkey650 3y ago> If you wait until a new technology definitively exists to start caring about safety, you have guaranteed it will be unsafe. I don’t get this perspective. The first planes, cars, computers, etc. weren’t initially made with safety in mind. They were all regulated after the fact and successfully made safer. How can you even design safety into something if it doesn’t exist yet? You’d have ended up with a plane where everyone sat on the wings with a parachute strapped on if you designed them with safety first instead of letting them evolve naturally and regulating the resulting designs.
- FartyMcFarter 3y agoThe difference between unsafe AGI and an unsafe plane or car is that the plane/car are not existential risks.
- optymizer 3y agoHow is it an 'existential risk'? Its body of knowledge is publicly available, no?
- FartyMcFarter 3y agoWhat do you mean by "its"? There isn't any AGI yet. ChatGPT is far from that level.
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- concordDance 3y agoUh, I reckon many do. Money is easy to come by for that type of person and avoiding killing everyone matters to them.
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- DirkH 3y agoAssuming employees are not incentivized by $$$ here seems extraordinary and needs a pretty robust argument to show it isn't playing a major factor when there is this much money involved.