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I resigned from Anthropic today

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Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

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He resigned and now what? There are thousands willing to do his role, and many labs are competing in that race.

His resignation and his statement doesn't do anything but buy him attention which is what all this post about in my opinion.

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

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Here's a WSJ article about this resignation, https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-researcher-quits-over-... ( "Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears" )

Shows that no one is immune from the marketing BS of these companies.

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Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

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It does not matter what this tweet says anyway. This employee already helped both companies become what he is fearing. It's too late to now activate the morality hormone (after leaving with $$$) after realizing that both AI companies are going after 'super intelligence'.

Given we know the end result, you might as well get there as quick as possible because when I see this:

"Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives."

This translates to "I am ex-OpenAI ex-Anthropic founder starting a new company after getting $$$ from both of them, and I need more of my friends to leave and join me." Also Investors plz fund me.

Lastly, This is not an airport and there is no need to announce your departure.

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

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I don't know man, i think racing to AGI to it is still the best thing to do. People claiming dangers and risk are just pretending or posturing. There's no more tangible risk than nuclear weapons, which we handled, and the upsides are insane.

>People claiming dangers and risk are just pretending or posturing. I believe you are mentally ill.

>There's no more tangible risk than nuclear weapons, which we handled

Lol way to rewrite history. Nuclear armageddon is still a significant risk...

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

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I don't know man, i think racing to AGI to it is still the best thing to do. People claiming dangers and risk are just pretending or posturing. There's no more tangible risk than nuclear weapons, which we handled, and the upsides are insane.

> There's no more tangible risk than nuclear weapons, which we handled

What do you mean??? Nuclear weapons can't simply be downloaded and run by anyone in the entire world. Superintelligences can. Nuclear weapons can't slop the world into passing age verification laws nearly in unison, can't keep the general population fooled into thinking it's fine when democracy is falling out from under them. A nuclear attack would wake people up, superintelligence doesn't have to. This is a far bigger problem than nuclear weapons because at least we would notice nuclear weapons. At least we mostly know who has nuclear weapons. At least we have agreements about nuclear weapons. At least mutually-assured destruction is even POSSIBLE with nuclear weapons. At least those with nuclear weapons are literally at all incentivized not to use them. But AI is something that's very very easy to feel like you can get away with, and PEOPLE FUCKING ARE! And the worst part is that any random individual can be unexpectedly formidable with the help of a superintelligence and there is literally no way to know what will happen next. Anyone could do anything, any individual could make an extremely outsized impact. It's already starting to be a huge problem and we haven't even reached anything close to superintelligence yet.

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