dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738411

See also from earlier today [1].

More or less the same content but parent is much more palpable, IMHO.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49737985

Thats certainly a title

I'm not saying there aren't weird things going on, but this article sure does a lot of guilt-by-association. We're putting neoreactionaries, polyamorous rationalists, doomsday AI researchers and the Zizians in one big web.

The framing of how we think about AI has really been cultivated by the a quite homogeneous group of people. These people, like all people that belong to a sub-culture almost certainly are prone to groupthink.

It's extremely important to see that group as such. That it is not thousands of individual perspectives but a chorus of connected/aligned people who have all read the same things and talked to the same people and are rewarded for thinking a similar way.

There's another universe where we do not constantly compare AI to nukes. I bet that world has a higher likelyhood of a better future for most humans.

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.