Comment by websap
1 day ago
If we don't innovate, someone else will. This is the very nature of being a human being. We summit mountains, regardless of the danger or challenge.
1 day ago
If we don't innovate, someone else will. This is the very nature of being a human being. We summit mountains, regardless of the danger or challenge.
>If we don't innovate, someone else will.
Terrible take. You don't get to push the extinction button just because you think China will beat you to the punch.
>This is the very nature of being a human being. We summit mountains, regardless of the danger or challenge.
No, just no... We barely survived the Cold War, at times because of pure luck. AI is at least as dangerous as that, if not more. We have far exceeded our wisdom relative to our capabilities. As you have so cleanly demonstrated.
You assume there is the option of not pushing the extinction button. Nobody asked chimps if they wanted humans around. This processes are outside control.
Humanity stopped germ-line human genetic engineering (possible since the early 1970s) and humanity can (and should) stop OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.
Datacenters that use literal gigawatts of electricity are not exactly easy to conceal from the authorities.
Until recently Claude wasn't building itself. A group of people with agency were.