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Re: I resigned from OpenAI

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Post by gre »

conartist6 wrote: post #6
monkaiju wrote: post #3

Always surprised when these "smart people" didn't see these things coming from several years away... Its honestly hard for me to believe it. Going to work for these big SV corps is and always has been directly in service of US empire, that's literally what built the valley in the first place.

Haha that's what I thought, but my thought was that I can't believe Sam Altman didn't see a serious backlash coming when Anthropic rejected a contract saying "the only two things we won't do are mass surveillance and autonomous killer drones" and within 6 hours Sam was all over that.

The only thing that can stop a bad ai with a guy is a good ai with a gun.

Re: I resigned from OpenAI

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Post by SilverElfin »

kennywinker wrote: post #16

Anybody who stays at openai is signing on to build machines that will be used to kill innocent people and control people who think that’s a bad idea.

Or onto mass surveillance which is a pathway to social credit score style oppression. See this mass surveillance demo:

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/8f42e48f-1b35-450d-8dda-2...

Re: I resigned from OpenAI

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Post by tadfisher »

threethirtytwo wrote: post #18

That twitter post was clearly written by AI along with the instructions for the AI to avoid "tells" and other tropes common to AI. Absolutely nothing wrong with something written with AI. Just pointing it out.

There is something wrong with humanity losing the willingness to think and type out a four-sentence paragraph, I would wager.

Generated comments are banned on HN, FWIW.

Re: I resigned from OpenAI

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Post by suzzer99 »

tartoran wrote: post #62
suzzer99 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got scared when I saw China's synchronized drone swarms at the Beijing Olympics, which I believe was the point.

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Why would you think my comment has anything to do with defending Trump or the US attacking Iran? It was about technology.

Re: I resigned from OpenAI

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Post by culanuchachamim »

wrs wrote: post #9

I have a hard time with this separation of “principle” from “people”. Isn’t it people who have principles?

It's not that complicated... People have much more depth and sides than one particular idea or principle that they have (specially if you don't know all the context that force them to chose one decsion over another). I'm sure Sam in many ways he's also a great person, so in that case you judging the idea and not the person.

Re: I resigned from OpenAI

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Post by GauntletWizard »

nerfbatplz wrote: post #68
ed_mercer wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m worried that China will build said killing machines and that we’ll be unprepared.

The last time China bombed a foreign country was 1979, 47 years ago. Has the US gone even 47 days in the last 80 years without bombing another country?

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Re: I resigned from OpenAI

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Post by [deleted] »

SilverElfin wrote: post #72
kennywinker wrote: post #16

Anybody who stays at openai is signing on to build machines that will be used to kill innocent people and control people who think that’s a bad idea.

Or onto mass surveillance which is a pathway to social credit score style oppression. See this mass surveillance demo: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/8f42e48f-1b35-450d-8dda-2...

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Re: I resigned from OpenAI

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Post by fooster »

rockskon wrote: post #41
jatari wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

China is currently a more morally virtuous country than the US.

They welded shut the doors to Uyghur Muslims and had a bunch of donated food for them stacked outside their homes in one giant pile that they couldn't get to. It either rotted away or was eaten by animals.

Jack booted thugs shot a women in the face for the crime of sitting in her car and the administration called her a terrorist. Nothing happened to the thug.

Jack booted thugs shot a man in the back for the crime of defending a woman and the administration called him a terrorist. Nothing happened to that thug either.

Re: I resigned from OpenAI

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Post by paulryanrogers »

rvz wrote: post #27
wrs wrote: post #9

I have a hard time with this separation of “principle” from “people”. Isn’t it people who have principles?

There are no "principles" in big tech and I call bullshit on this tweet and their reasoning. OpenAI already had military contracts while this employee was at the company and there was no open letter last year about that. Prior to that, they were at Meta and joined OpenAI after ChatGPT took off. If they thought that AGI was about "principles" then not only they were naive, but it leads me to believe that they were onl…

> Why is it so hard to be honest and just say you were there for the money...

Because then you miss opportunities like this in which to market yourself. A kind of hedging your bets in order to get more money and/or stay out of jail if the winds change. (Jail can be expensive.)

Or it could be honest cognitive dissonance.

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