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Anthropic CEO calls for immediate slowdown in AI development

12 points by doctoboggan 4d ago

JumpCrisscross 4d ago
This is the same "stop me before I shoot grandma" and "we're going to blow up the world" tripe these guys start repeating before any fundraising. What if we take them at their word and convert them into utilities?
- cyanydeez 4d ago
  what if it's dumber: They're not making money, actual improvements are sigmoid, and since the real TAM is never going to be repaid _and_ they have a dangerous enough product on their hands they're under two different pials of liablity.
jaggs 4d ago
Man, this pre-IPO propaganda is getting boring!
- 4d4m 4d ago
  Wake me up at ipo this all feels like a soap opera show and outsourced pr
1attice 4d ago
Reading the other two comments on this post: the vibe is dismissive and confident. The gallery is certain that this is marketing. I worked alongside AI engineers at $Mag7 before abandoning ship (way back in the day, 2022 -- right but early!) and I assure you, as so many others have, we all have P(doom) > 0 and the more you know, generally, the higher the value. We're nerds. None of us can market shit, and none of us care. Most of us can barely make so much as a functional UX without assistance, let alone a marketing conspiracy, which kinda was the point behind making a machine that could do it for us. The closest I've seen to a successful takedown of the vibe is Cal Newport's most recent NYT op-ed (too lazy to google up the url but you obvi can). It's just this side of possible that we all over indexed on the Sequences or something, but post-HF-attack, I thought we had all mostly discounted that possibility, as the attack is well documented and the danger-sign is unfakeable. What I expect is actually driving the nonchalance is simple exhaustion. It's wearying to be frightened all the time. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't be.
Rzor 4d ago
Official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672510 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672510

12 points by doctoboggan 4d ago

This is the same "stop me before I shoot grandma" and "we're going to blow up the world" tripe these guys start repeating before any fundraising. What if we take them at their word and convert them into utilities?

cyanydeez 4d ago
what if it's dumber: They're not making money, actual improvements are sigmoid, and since the real TAM is never going to be repaid _and_ they have a dangerous enough product on their hands they're under two different pials of liablity.

jaggs 4d ago

Man, this pre-IPO propaganda is getting boring!

4d4m 4d ago
Wake me up at ipo this all feels like a soap opera show and outsourced pr

1attice 4d ago

Reading the other two comments on this post: the vibe is dismissive and confident. The gallery is certain that this is marketing. I worked alongside AI engineers at $Mag7 before abandoning ship (way back in the day, 2022 -- right but early!) and I assure you, as so many others have, we all have P(doom) > 0 and the more you know, generally, the higher the value. We're nerds. None of us can market shit, and none of us care. Most of us can barely make so much as a functional UX without assistance, let alone a marketing conspiracy, which kinda was the point behind making a machine that could do it for us. The closest I've seen to a successful takedown of the vibe is Cal Newport's most recent NYT op-ed (too lazy to google up the url but you obvi can). It's just this side of possible that we all over indexed on the Sequences or something, but post-HF-attack, I thought we had all mostly discounted that possibility, as the attack is well documented and the danger-sign is unfakeable. What I expect is actually driving the nonchalance is simple exhaustion. It's wearying to be frightened all the time. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't be.

Rzor 4d ago

Official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672510 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672510