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Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
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Re: Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
#642I wonder if the attacker asked ChatGPT how to make a molotov cocktail.
It would be an interesting plot twist.
Re: Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
#643Earlier quoted context omitted.
The event itself is really bad and condemnable, but when threads like this show up they are usually a good thing because people rapidly demonstrate high coupling of tribal affiliation with viewpoint. This causes a lot of them to advertise through unhinged posts which is a good raw test for what they are like to communicate with. I usually go through and killfile a bunch of these commenters. Essentially, you want your…
What's a killfile?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file a mechanism to increase signal to noise so that you don't have to waste time on low-value text
Here are a few things I find boring: https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Overmod#My_Stuff
One of the things I really like is to have a high-ratio of good content to slop content and I think manually curating out slop authors is the way to go for that. You'll see that my lists include things that other people seem to really enjoy.
Re: Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
#644I don't think I've ever seen a thread this bad on Hacker News*. The number of commenters justifying violence, or saying they "don't condone violence" and then doing exactly that, is sickening and makes me want to find something else to do with my life—something as far away from this as I can get. I feel ashamed of this community. * Edit: It would have been clearer to say "I've never seen a mob dynamic this bad on Hac…
Wouldn't it maybe be a great idea to just ban anything that's not actually about science and technology from this board? This will have the indirect effect of people leaving it who are here for political trench fights? Plus the good old flame wars about technology x versus y are pretty harmless in comparison.
(And no, just because Sam Altman is CEO of tech company doesn't make this news tech news.)
Re: Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
#645Earlier quoted context omitted.
The event itself is really bad and condemnable, but when threads like this show up they are usually a good thing because people rapidly demonstrate high coupling of tribal affiliation with viewpoint. This causes a lot of them to advertise through unhinged posts which is a good raw test for what they are like to communicate with. I usually go through and killfile a bunch of these commenters. Essentially, you want your…
What's a killfile?
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Re: Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
#646Re: Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
#647I don't think I've ever seen a thread this bad on Hacker News*. The number of commenters justifying violence, or saying they "don't condone violence" and then doing exactly that, is sickening and makes me want to find something else to do with my life—something as far away from this as I can get. I feel ashamed of this community. * Edit: It would have been clearer to say "I've never seen a mob dynamic this bad on Hac…
Wouldn't it maybe be a great idea to just ban anything that's not actually about science and technology from this board? This will have the indirect effect of people leaving it who are here for political trench fights? Plus the good old flame wars about technology x versus y are pretty harmless in comparison. (And no, just because Sam Altman is CEO of tech company doesn't make this news tech news.)
I think a proper OpenAI vs Anthropic flame war might actually do this community some good. Let's just have it out. Avoiding violation of the x vs y technology rule seems to have resulted in a lot of pent up energy. I don't see the harm at this point if dang is saying it's over.
Re: Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
#648In all seriousness, what is the game plan for society moving forward as AI takes more jobs? The government doesn't seem to care. The AI labs don't seem to care. What happens when more and more people can't afford housing, kids, food, health insurance, etc.? Nothing more dangerous than a man who has no reason to live... I don't advocate for violence, but I do foresee more headlines like this as things get worse.
Few thoughts - Either we'll slowly become the Expanse universe (basic UBI, very few jobs, you win them via lottery) - Or we'll go to simpler times - economics is supply and demand, if there will be more demand to human generated work (the same way there is demand for hand made arts, vinyls, paper books, vintage furniture), people will flock more to family, community. Think something between moving to the suburbs and…
The end game is like the Asimov world which had only a few people and everyone else was robot servants.
The trillionaires will survive, everyone else will be exterminated. This is the world that Musk and his kind dream about.
Re: Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
#649Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I'm not saying violence is okay, but violence is okay"
Not ok, but anybody who is ok with terrorizing, say, an Iranian civilian nuclear scientist ought to be equally indifferent to this.
I’m not indifferent to either of them, but if you equate American tech executives with agents of the Iranian nuclear programme then I don’t care what you have to say on any subject ever