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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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@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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@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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@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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