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Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

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I am the only one reading this as an ads?

Just another one based on fear once again.

Can't they create a full account in a day with all its contacts and history anytime they want?

Do they not have already a back-list of accounts they can use with full history just for this?

It just make sense does it not?

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

#962

Every news headline or public statement these days is a gut punch. Only bad news, and nothing we (as "the general public") can do about it. Take this one. Ok, AI is going to ruin us all. But let's say we do our civic duty: we protest, vote in candidates with good views on AI etc. and somehow convince or regulate OpenAI and Anthropic into stopping their arms race... Then what about China? It would be a great opportuni…

It is just plain manipulation. So plain that I ask myself everyday who they fired that did it before, because at least that guy was not as plain and boring.

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

#963

It's fake account. The person doesn't even exist

I'm surprised this isn't talked more. There is no proof this is a real person.

bots, after you start to see and detect them, you can't unsee them.

It is like a layer get removed from your eyes.

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

#964
post #938

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"collect underpants... Profit" comes from south park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park)

Found it really funny to see this attributed to a Slashdot meme

It seems like the "Step 1, Step 2, …, Step 4" format likely predated the 1998 South Park episode, with use on Usenet for omitting dangerous or legally-questionable instructions or otherwise gatekeeping "trade secrets": https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/where-does-the-step-st...

There's also a bit of prior art with the cartoon by Sidney Harris published in American Scientist in 1977 with a step two abridged as "Then A Miracle Occurs": http://www.sciencecartoonsplus.com/images/miracle_sharris.gi...

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

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post #964
post #938

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Found it really funny to see this attributed to a Slashdot meme

It seems like the "Step 1, Step 2, …, Step 4" format likely predated the 1998 South Park episode, with use on Usenet for omitting dangerous or legally-questionable instructions or otherwise gatekeeping "trade secrets": https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/where-does-the-step-st... There's also a bit of prior art with the cartoon by Sidney Harris published in American Scientist in 1977 with a step two abridged as "Th…

Interesting, thanks. Looks like also guilty of assuming the first place I saw it was the definitive source.

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

#967

I’m not advocating for this. ~~~~~~ If you really believed these labs were going to result in the extinction of humanity and you saw it first hand, don’t you have a moral obligation not to quit your job but to go and try and kill everyone working on said project, blow it up, or otherwise stop it? I take these resignations with a grain of salt precisely for that reason. If I worked at a job and I saw some crazy guy or…

No true Scotsman?

Not applicable here

Re: I resigned from Anthropic today

#970
post #943

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They literally have never promised anything like that. They have explicitly said repeatedly that they want regulation, oversight, nationalization, a global slowdown, etc. And then I have to read page after page of cynical comments about how that's all just hype and marketing and them wanting regulation to block their competition and blah blah blah. You people would only be happy if they stopped all AI development, bu…

> ... They have explicitly said repeatedly that they want regulation, oversight, nationalization, a global slowdown, etc. And yet they do the exact opposite of all of the above. They do everything to get regulation just to create a moat because one doesn't exist. They preach about wanting a slowdown, nationalization, a complete pause, whatever have you... And yet they aren't slowing down the development voluntarily n…

It's genuinely hilarious to me that you immediately proved my second paragraph correct.

Putting arms race in quotes doesn't make it any less real. It just means you wish it wasn't, but don't have any good evidence or arguments to make.

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