Every thread like this I like to go through and count how many people are making the pro-AI "Argument from Misanthropy." Based on this exercise, I believe that the biggest AI boosters are simply the most disagreeable people in the industry, temperamentally speaking.
It means you are not representative of humanity as a whole. You are likely in a small minority of people on an extreme of the personality spectrum. Any attempts to glibly dismiss critiques of AI with a phrase equivalent to "well I hate people" should be glibly dismissed in turn.
Every thread like this I like to go through and count how many people are making the pro-AI "Argument from Misanthropy." Based on this exercise, I believe that the biggest AI boosters are simply the most disagreeable people in the industry, temperamentally speaking.
Just because I'm disagreeable it doesn't mean I'm wrong.
It means you are not representative of humanity as a whole. You are likely in a small minority of people on an extreme of the personality spectrum. Any attempts to glibly dismiss critiques of AI with a phrase equivalent to "well I hate people" should be glibly dismissed in turn.
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