Always 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.
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#52To save a click > I resigned from OpenAI. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn’t an easy call. AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the…
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
if that's the case, ai failed to remove the negative parallel construction (my current top ai smell aside from slanted inverted commas). what signs are there of this being ai asked not to sound like ai?
Right, that's the sign. Ai often fails to do what it's told. So that's the sign of it asked to not sound like an AI. I told AI to do this for my current post as well.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
The myth of american moral superiority had been dead for a while. Why would china be any more evil than the US, which has waged far more colonialist wars and killed far more foreign lives in recent times (look at the news today for inspiration)
Uighur concentration camps? Falun Gong organ harvesting?
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#55So it wouldn't even be worth a HN submission. Well, I think it can still go under exception for exceptional news.
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#60Anybody 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.