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I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

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Re: I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

#33

So is it just that these are people who haven’t personally experienced well-intentioned technology turning into a living nightmare? Watching the optimism and then collapse of Web 2.0 was a formative experience for me. I’m 38. Is this just naivete? What is this?

well she is only 23 so naivete would make sense, although it looks like she held some AI safety roles so...

Re: I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

#34

So is it just that these are people who haven’t personally experienced well-intentioned technology turning into a living nightmare? Watching the optimism and then collapse of Web 2.0 was a formative experience for me. I’m 38. Is this just naivete? What is this?

It's called being insulated from the immediate consequences of their actions and hubris.

Re: I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

#35

So is it just that these are people who haven’t personally experienced well-intentioned technology turning into a living nightmare? Watching the optimism and then collapse of Web 2.0 was a formative experience for me. I’m 38. Is this just naivete? What is this?

Inevitablism, a fundamentalist belief system that resolves every moral hazard with an appeal to the inevitable. "we can't let someone else do this first"

Re: I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

#37
> In a couple years, the main way we'll talk with our AIs is with our thoughts. They will not be a super-smart automated intern or coworker that you desperately try to keep up with. They will be a natural, joyful extension of you.

Ah, yes, very joyful indeed.

Also, fuck those interns! They're just too smart to keep up with.

Re: I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

#39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

vim already exists

secret counterexample. people have been failing to learn vim for literal decades

Upon trying it for the first time more than 60% of people never exit - that's just great retention!

Re: I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

#40

So is it just that these are people who haven’t personally experienced well-intentioned technology turning into a living nightmare? Watching the optimism and then collapse of Web 2.0 was a formative experience for me. I’m 38. Is this just naivete? What is this?

Inevitablism, a fundamentalist belief system that resolves every moral hazard with an appeal to the inevitable. "we can't let someone else do this first"

"I will kill you now since you're dying anyway so just hand me all your money"
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