Comment by Schlagbohrer
8 hours ago
It worked to launch the creator into a gig at OpenAI.
Similar YOLO attitude to OpenAI's launch of modern LLMs while Google was still worrying about all the legal and safety implications. The free market does not often reward conservative responsible thinking. That's where government regulation comes in.
I wonder if public perception of LLMs would be better had Google been the one to introduce them after said safety considerations
"safety considerations" don't matter. The main sticking point with LLMs is that it's a blatant theft of everyone's copyright all while letting the bosses threaten your job. Blatantly stealing to wealth transfer to the ultrawealthy.
Conservative thinking isn't responsible.
That's how you end up like Germany still using cash and fax machines for 60+ years.
Taking fewer visible risks can increase your total risk. We are already under constant threat from deterioration: aging, depreciation and decay. Entropy is the default. Action is what pushes back against it.
You do not fight entropy, only move it around, and in so doing, increase it somewhere. It is still worth it to take action. We may find an action to actually reduce entropy eventually, that does not exist yet.
I would be perfectly happy moving it off-Earth. We can consider the long term after we have a mid-term.
> It worked to launch the creator into a gig at OpenAI.
True, but it doesn't scale. No amount of YOLO will let anyone else repeat that feat.
Then why does the creator keep complaining that the maintainers he onboards keep getting poached by AI companies. It seems more like it is scaling too well.