Comment by Onavo
4 days ago
Sam at least can be understood. He's in it to make money and nothing else. The most dangerous men are people like Dario, who sit on top of their elitist towers and think they are right and will burn down the world in the name of righteousness.
Anthropic unironically uses the word "uplift" in their documentation. They think we are lesser beings.
1. Does every other company that says their products will uplift people "think we are lesser beings"?
2. Which documentation are you referring to? Googing "site:anthropic.com uplift" most of the top hits seem to be about bio research, another is about measuring agent performance (not a comparison to people), or "These are Anthropic’s internal designators for actors observed to be abusing AI. The report also attempts to measure uplift, a term we use to describe the AI capability boost, or how much more harm was caused with AI versus without AI."
To add some context, uplift in the context of futurism literally refers to a species fast-tracking another’s progress.
Has Anthropic used uplift in that sense? I spent ~5 minutes trying to find an example like that but couldn't find them doing so. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826215
That is a ridiculously reaching statement.
Luckily we can declare that they're both bad and neither should be our overlord.
> will burn down the world in the name of righteousness
Is this referring to the 'safe development of AI', as they say AI development will happen even if they don’t exist, but other companies are less focused on AI safety?
Their idea of safety and alignement is sane person dyatopia and harm.
Meanwhile, they dont care about acrual harm to real people. They sell to Palantier for christ sake.
Don't panic, uncle Donald absolves you of the righteousness. He will burn the world just for the lulz.
> and will burn down the world in the name of righteousness.
The righteousness of making a fast buck is also burning down the world.