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Comment by jr3592

8 hours ago

I guess I understand why we'd want to flatten a COVID curve, but why do people want to flatten the LLM development curve? Don't we want the opposite? Isn't the goal AGI?

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sailingparrot  8 hours ago

There is a difference between wanting AGI (which not everyone does), and wanting it as fast as possible no matter the side effects and potential for vast harm. Homo sapiens is 300k years old, maybe it’s ok to delay AGI by like… 1 year if it meaningfully improve our ability to align the model?

lantry  8 hours ago

Well, there's a tension because, depending on who you ask, AGI is how you cure cancer and achieve utopia, but also how you kill all life on earth and turn the solar system into paperclips

  • skerit  7 hours ago

    I'm good with the odds on those 2 scenarios. I believe humans could kill all life on earth without AI anyway.