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Comment by ychnd

4 days ago

It is frightening that it took only a few comments from the top of the page to the first mention of a suicide and also that it doesn't look out of place at all.

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lotsofpulp  3 days ago

dspillett wrote that they would rather wait tables or be a hospital porter than commit actual suicide.

jacquesm  4 days ago

What else do you think will happen when you rob people of what for a very large portion of us is their feeling of self worth.

These AI characters are too busy saving the planet to care about the people.

I wonder how Hinton feels about his brainchild, I can see an Oppenheimer moment in his future and I hope that he's mentally prepared for that.

  • sonnyg  3 days ago

    He might already be there.

    “I’m trying to convey that there is a really serious possibility of something happening. If, for example, you’re told there was a 10% possibility of a bus crashing, you wouldn’t get on the bus,” he said. “The point of giving numbers is to say this is a serious risk. We don’t know how serious, but it’s serious.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/13/geoffrey-hin...