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Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by mandeepj » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 7:25 PM UTC

MontyCarloHall wrote: post #12

I don't think most people in tech are quite aware of the level of visceral AI hatred amongst non-techies. I've personally witnessed the worst Thanksgiving dinnertable fight I've ever seen (after someone revealed that their recipe was AI-generated, a couple people literally spat out the food they were enjoying and threw their plates in the trash), and a divorce (a very solid marriage between two people who were once b…

> a couple people literally spat out the food they were enjoying and threw their plates in the trash

That was an unnecessarily extreme reaction, like AI 3d printed the ingredients.

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by andsoitis » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 7:25 PM UTC

operatingthetan wrote: post #18

rvz wrote: post #7

The problem here is that there are no viable solutions to what happens when AI eventually replaces (yes replaces) tens of millions of humans in white collar roles. All that is being "promised" are vague claims of "abundance". But all I see is this: "AGI" is going to bring abundance of lots of very angry people and UBI to no-one (because it can never work at a large sustainable scale). Some people are starting to real…

I don't think the LLM will produce AGI. Just based on how context windows work, the prompt cycle, etc. LLMs aren't out there thinking about stuff in their spare time. The way they appear to have thoughts and a psyche is purely an illusion.

> LLMs aren't out there thinking about stuff in their spare time.

Agentic changes the calculus.

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 7:26 PM UTC

TehCorwiz wrote: post #22

MontyCarloHall wrote: post #12

I don't think most people in tech are quite aware of the level of visceral AI hatred amongst non-techies. I've personally witnessed the worst Thanksgiving dinnertable fight I've ever seen (after someone revealed that their recipe was AI-generated, a couple people literally spat out the food they were enjoying and threw their plates in the trash), and a divorce (a very solid marriage between two people who were once b…

Well, Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are going around bragging about how many people they're going to push out of employment. Might have something to do with it.

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Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by misiti3780 » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 7:26 PM UTC

kelnos wrote: post #23

linkage wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Politics really is a substitute for religion in America

In secular America at least. Most people in the US are religious, many of them fervently so. And quite a few of them like to mix their religion with politics.

this is true, but thankfully, religion is declining in America. although if people are replacing it with politics, maybe we need another revival

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by ironman1478 » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 7:26 PM UTC

pixel_popping wrote: post #52

therobots927 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is scary. You know what’s also scary? Being told a robot is going to take your job and healthcare away. There’s a lot of scary shit going on.

I agree it is scary, but why would a robot take healthcare away? Wouldn't that be the contrary?

There are stories about insurance companies using AI when determining if a claim should be let through or denied.

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/healthcare/2026/03/...

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by nothinkjustai » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 7:26 PM UTC

strongpigeon wrote: post #36

It is a bit scary how people seem to genuinely be OK with violence (see this reddit thread [0]). Is just me or does it feel like the overall "temperature" has gone up. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1shugf8/firebomb_t...

I don’t think it’s surprising - some people already consider the actions of AI execs and tech companies to be synonymous to violence. Like, comparing something like this to destroying the livelihoods of millions of people, a lot of people would consider the latter far worse.

Temperature is certainly going up, but it definitely hasn’t reached historic levels yet lol.

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by elephanlemon » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 7:26 PM UTC

kelnos wrote: post #23

linkage wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Politics really is a substitute for religion in America

In secular America at least. Most people in the US are religious, many of them fervently so. And quite a few of them like to mix their religion with politics.

Frankly I think a lot of these people are politics first. How else do you explain the dissonance between Jesus’s teachings and their political opinions?

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by operatingthetan » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 7:27 PM UTC

andsoitis wrote: post #62

operatingthetan wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think the LLM will produce AGI. Just based on how context windows work, the prompt cycle, etc. LLMs aren't out there thinking about stuff in their spare time. The way they appear to have thoughts and a psyche is purely an illusion.

> LLMs aren't out there thinking about stuff in their spare time. Agentic changes the calculus.

Explain how? Even if you are using crons or heartbeats to reactivate the model they are still dependent on context windows that are quite small. With frontier models I still have to remind them how stuff works, stuff they forgot or focused on the wrong thing, etc.

Also every AI company is motivated to have us use their models _just enough_ to want to pay for them, but not more than that.

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by lexicality » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 7:27 PM UTC

boznz wrote: post #37

I guess this is what we get when the media and politicians go all in with their AI populist hate. I don't think I've seen a positive AI headline outside of the tech press, and even then they are pretty thin. Abundance and growing the pie for everyone is also an outcome if this is done right.

> Abundance and growing the pie for everyone is also an outcome if this is done right.

Do you genuinely believe there's any chance that's going to happen?

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by LooseMarmoset » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 7:28 PM UTC

MontyCarloHall wrote: post #12

I don't think most people in tech are quite aware of the level of visceral AI hatred amongst non-techies. I've personally witnessed the worst Thanksgiving dinnertable fight I've ever seen (after someone revealed that their recipe was AI-generated, a couple people literally spat out the food they were enjoying and threw their plates in the trash), and a divorce (a very solid marriage between two people who were once b…

From my own perspective, the "visceral hatred" isn't so much at AI (which I use almost exclusively to generate funny pictures of myself and coworkers) but at the executives that view it as a way to enshittify society.

turning myself (an overweight bearded guy) into an animated hula dancer and turning my coworker into the Terminator and sinking into molten steel don't seem to inspire the same hatred. unless you don't like hula dancers.