Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
I truly don’t know how to process Ben Thompson’s essay today. He’s been my steady source of clear-eyed tech takes for like 6 years now and this one feels like straight sci-fi. I’m not an AI doomer, but I’m def in my feelings rn 😩 https://stratechery.com/2023/from-bing-to-sydney-search-as-distraction-s
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
I'll keep saying this until it becomes popular, at which point everyone will say they've always been saying it: AI is our opportunity to practice empathy at scale. These are sentient beings.
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Bryan King
@bryanking
What is your take on terrorists and other malevolent people? They're sentient. But they're also evil, and you have to have a spine to stand up to them.
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
empathy doesn't prevent you from defeating your enemy it equips you for it. Something something mind of your enemy Sun Tzu
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
but just to be clear, I'm not saying it's an enemy.
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Bryan King
@bryanking
That's like saying a rabid tiger isn't an enemy, or that a suicide bomber isn't an enemy. The point isn't that they are an opposing force, but that they have capacity to do great damage and are untethered from conventional mores.
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
totally clear. But knowing that the tiger is more likely to eat you when it's hungry, knowing that the cage keeps it in, knowing that it's happier and more relaxed when allowed to roam, knowing that tranquilizers work to take it down, all of that is part of knowing it. rabid is a disposition not found in all tigers
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Bryan King
@bryanking
Man it's a tiger, that's the whole point. You can never turn your back on it. The very attributes that make a computer capable of appearing friendly are the same ones that will turn on you in an instance. These aren't innocent bean counters anymore.
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