Comment by ladberg
11 hours ago
You are paying the smartest people in the world to think really really hard, and turns out they might also think really really hard about not making the world a worse place
11 hours ago
You are paying the smartest people in the world to think really really hard, and turns out they might also think really really hard about not making the world a worse place
it's not working
US isn't randomly launching nukes yet
yet.
Because so far if we left it to AI they would be much quicker to do it [1]
[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-r...
virtue signaling is the goal and its working
Is this really the case though? How many smartest people do you really think are there that fit this narrative?! I want to believe there are at least some but I think they are minority in this group… otherwise I think all these pretty much evil corporations would have a awfully difficult time attracting talent? maybe some do but…
Most evil corporations have fairly normal jobs available.
if you want to make the world a better place as OP stated perhaps you can get a normal job in maybe less evil corp?
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not really. 15-20 years ago that same upper echelon of college/professional school graduates you're describing were going into finance.
Except they do? They are certainly not making it better place. Like, ok, it is money for few companies and salary, it is business and probably fun work.
But it is absurd to claim it is "making the world better place".
I'm not sure you can provide an objective (i.e way to show that it is absurd) means of explaining how an AI researcher is making the world a worse place. It's going to come down to disagreeing about some axiom like "is ASI rapidly approaching" or "Is AGI good to have" and there's no right answer to those.