Suddenly, the doom end of world scenarios are just “some bad things”
Looks a lot like “The world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of Sam Altman”
You first, sam.
- take this medicine, it may be bitter but good things will come out.
- take this loan, you’ll have to pay more in return but you’ll “own” a house.
Just because the same words are used, it doesn’t mean impact, effects, consequences and outcomes are going to be the same.
In this context, Sam Altman is saying, outloud, that he accepts bad things happening to him and his loved ones for the benefits of AI.
Didn't deaths by train go up once we started laying track?
Didn't death by cars start going up once we started driving?
Didn't crime become easier once gangs had phones to coordinate with each other?
This is silly. These tech CEOs have to understand nuance does not read well in headlines but still... for a bunch of "smart" people on HN to doom over this headline is silly.
The problems of the current moment are mostly driven by thermodynamics and politics. The idea that we should all jump into the woodchipper and make knowledge a paywalled resource owned by a half dozen chaotic-neutral oligarchs in exchange for some hand-wavey gene therapy magic is laughable.
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