I have a hard time with this separation of “principle” from “people”. Isn’t it people who have principles?
Easier to remain in the industry if you are shittalking principles instead of people.
I resigned from OpenAI
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#12Their justification rings hollow when they continue to use X.
Doesn't seem to be an equivalency there.
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#13I have a hard time with this separation of “principle” from “people”. Isn’t it people who have principles?
Easier to remain in the industry if you are shittalking principles instead of people.
yep - it really softens your actions, which in this case seem like a big step. So if you respect the people, why didn't you stay? or if you disagree this strongly with their actions, how can you still respect them?
I get that there's nuance, but this feels like they want to make a big ethical stand without burning any bridges. You can have one of those.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Easier to remain in the industry if you are shittalking principles instead of people.
yep - it really softens your actions, which in this case seem like a big step. So if you respect the people, why didn't you stay? or if you disagree this strongly with their actions, how can you still respect them? I get that there's nuance, but this feels like they want to make a big ethical stand without burning any bridges. You can have one of those.
There are people I've worked with who I'll never worth with again. There are others I'd be willing to work with if they got their act together.
"If you disagree this strongly with their actions, how can you still respect them?" is a decent description of the latter.
Re: I resigned from OpenAI
#16Anybody who stays at openai is signing on to build machines that will be used to kill innocent people and control people who think that’s a bad idea.
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#17If you don’t wanna upset your stomach, don’t make the mistake of reading the replies. What a cesspool of humanity X is.
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#18That twitter post was clearly written by AI along with the instructions for the AI to avoid "tells" and other tropes common to AI.
Absolutely nothing wrong with something written with AI. Just pointing it out.
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#19Anybody who stays at openai is signing on to build machines that will be used to kill innocent people and control people who think that’s a bad idea.
I’m worried that China will build said killing machines and that we’ll be unprepared.
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#20Always surprised when these "smart people" didn't see these things coming from several years away... Its honestly hard for me to believe it. Going to work for these big SV corps is and always has been directly in service of US empire, that's literally what built the valley in the first place.
It's easier to defer principled decision making to the future while you can rake in the cash in the meantime.