Why is it so hard to believe that the AI worries are genuine?
1•meep_meep_meep•35m ago
I use to have a strong belief that it was all hype but the Hugging Face Attack made me reconsider all my priors. Also given that these companies are trying to go public doing this for hype would be a borderline insane braindead move. The backlash it's already generating is going to be like nothing the industry has seen before. Not a great move if you want to go public.
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afzalive•32m ago
Because they're coming from people who are quite detached from reality in other aspects of life and they have been affiliated with people who have rug-pulled as a tactic in in the past (like Uber and Airbnb).
The concerns could be real but these AI CEOs are simply trying to capture the mindshare of the solution IMHO.
meep_meep_meep•28m ago
One does not simply try to capture mindshare when you are trying to pull off a IPO at a value of 2 trillion.
Any other time sure, but not in this window. The IPO window for them is fragile.
nfujd7•23m ago
They are genuine just like hurricane warnings are genuine. But filtering out attention economy amplification layer and nonsense you land on a simple truth - no one controls weather systems yet the chimp troupe has survived them for thousands of years. The hurricane is already out of the box.
meep_meep_meep•18m ago
I guess. But we've never survived something smarter than us (that we know of.) I feel like the analogy of how we kill animals off without having malice simply because it fulfills a need in our current goals that an animal would have no basis for understanding. Something more intelligent than us would probably view us similarly. And their reasoning would be just as incomprehensible. Like a monkey in a jungle that is being set on fire for palm oil plantation doesn't comprehend reasoning for what we are doing.
afzalive•32m ago
The concerns could be real but these AI CEOs are simply trying to capture the mindshare of the solution IMHO.
meep_meep_meep•28m ago
Any other time sure, but not in this window. The IPO window for them is fragile.