Comment by crawshaw
2 months ago
I do not have a useful opinion on another person’s emotional response. My post you are responding to is about responsibility. A legal entity is always responsible for a machine.
2 months ago
I do not have a useful opinion on another person’s emotional response. My post you are responding to is about responsibility. A legal entity is always responsible for a machine.
This is mildly disingenuous no? I'm not talking about Rob Pike's reaction which as I call out, "makes sense to me." And you are not just talking about legal entities. After all the legal entity here is Sage.
You're naming (and implicitly shaming as the downstream comments indicate) all the individuals behind an organization. That's not an intrinsically bad thing. It just seems like overkill for thoughtless, machine-generated thank yous. Again, can you point me to where you've named all the people behind an organization for accountability reasons previously on HN or any other social media platform (or for that matter any other comment from anyone else on HN that's done this? This is not rhetorical; I assume they exist and I'm curious what circumstances those were under)?
I suspect you think more effort went into my comment than actually did. I spent less than 60 seconds on: clicking two or three buttons, typing out the names I saw from the other window, then scrolling down and seeing the 501(c)3.
The reason I did was to associate the work with humans because that is the heart of my argument: people do things. This was not the work of an independent AI. If it took more than 60 seconds, I would have made the point abstractly rather than by using names, but abstract arguments are harder to follow. There was no more intention to comment than that.
> I suspect you think more effort went into my comment than actually did. I spent less than 60 seconds on: clicking two or three buttons, typing out the names I saw from the other window, then scrolling down and seeing the 501(c)3.
This is a bit frustrating of a response to get. No, I don't believe you spent a lot of time on this. I wasn't imaging you spending hours or even minutes tracking these guys down. But I also don't think it's relevant.
I don't think you'd find it relevant if the Sage researchers said "I didn't spend any effort on this. I only did this because I wanted to make the point that AIs have enough capability to navigate the web and email people. I could have made the point abstractly, but abstract arguments are harder to follow. There was no other intention than what I put in the prompt." It's hence frustrating to see you use essentially the same thing as a shield.
Look, I'm not here to crucify you for this. I don't think you're a bad person. And this isn't even that bad in the grand scheme of things. It's just that naming and shaming specific people feels like an overreaction to thoughtless, machine-generated thank you emails.
2 replies →