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I'm going to be fucking irritated if we all die because BlueSky posters wanted to take pot-shots at the EA crowd. The Boy Who Cried Wolf is _also_ a story about
by petesergeant 16d ago
I'm going to be fucking irritated if we all die because BlueSky posters wanted to take pot-shots at the EA crowd. The Boy Who Cried Wolf is _also_ a story about how a community lost a child because of cynicism, and the people proudly declaring that they "know" every safety concern is just a marketing ploy also concerns me.
- blactuary 16d agoI have great news then, that absolutely isn't going to happen. And the EA crowd deserves all of the potshots and more
- devindotcom 16d agoI think it's more of a Chicken Little situation. Then the wolf ate us all up.
- wtinasky 16d ago[dead]
- lbrito 16d agoI'd rather have the world end than live in a world where EAs are listened to or respected.
- againstapples 16d agoI agree they’re kinda weird but are they really that bad?
- Viliam1234 16d agois dying really so bad compared to admitting that you were wrong and some weirdo was right? for many people the answer seems to be: not really.
- jplusequalt 16d agoYes. Sam Bankman Fried was/is an EA/rationalist (on the short list of biggest fraudsters in American history). So are the Zizian's (a murder cult). etc. etc.
- Viliam1234 16d agoSBF maybe, but Ziz declared rationalists to be their main enemy
- jplusequalt 16d agoAnd? The Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks were both socialist factions who were coming from the same intellectual milieu, and they killed each other.
- Viliam1234 16d agoThey also killed lots of unrelated people. Let's not take the argument far enough to claim that everyone who was ever killed by socialists must have been a socialist, too. Perhaps the author of the article is a rationalist, too. He certainly knows too much about them, cares too much, and the fact that he criticizes them only shows that there is some infighting among them.
- jplusequalt 15d ago>Let's not take the argument far enough to claim that everyone who was ever killed by socialists must have been a socialist, too. Well it's a good thing I only mentioned the two groups who were explicitly socialists!
- 4bpp 16d agoIf you are serious about this preference, would you also be okay with a compromise solution where only you (and anyone else who feels the same) die, rather than taking everyone else with you?
- int_19h 16d agoIf we all die because of AI, it will be because of the uses that people like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey put it to, not because of a robot uprising.
- petesergeant 16d agoWhy not both? I honestly can’t fathom why people think — in an ultra-networked world — why LLMs can’t cause physical consequences.