Literally, their pitches have amounted to, “We’re going to create massive unemployment” and “we’re going to kill everyone.” And they’re absolutely shocked that the public opinion is against them?

Yet you still get hoards of dick suckers sucking that corporate dick. We deserve whatever we get.

America had to build the (atom) bomb to “beat the Russians to it”. Then the h-bomb, then the ICBM. Every time it was “we, the good guys need this first to save the world”.

Except, even ignoring the “good guys” part, its always easier to copy and steal than build something new from scratch. In every case, America just ended up handing the tech to Russia. You dont slow down tech by inventing it first.

I heard an interview recently with Emile Torres about this. And he didn’t make this any less stupid, but he did a great job helping to explain the deranged pathologies of the people behind these.

When you have the power to make decisions at a global scale, your goals and fears are radically different from those of people who only have the ability to make choices that impact their household or family or neighborhood.

These people have a fantasy of being not just A “great man of history” but THE greatest, most important, most monumental figure to have ever lived in the whole universe. And in their head, if this technology either allows humans to make a superior species that replaces us and goes on to conquer the whole galaxy or just eradicates all the life on the only habitable planet we know of… well what a legacy, you know? There’s no bigger tombstone that says ‘I MATTERED!’

And that’s what they crave. They’re basically sick, poisoned with toxic levels of power and ego.

But it’s funny when you put all of them in a single room. It’s like a nuthouse.

Uhh, no, I am the god here

I wonder whether if it is marketing or paving the way to “LLMs must only be provided by big tech because it is very dangerous”. I wouldn’t be surprised if in a decade or so they lobby for integrated hardware surveillance that detects “illegal LLMs”

I think they’re just trying to make LLMs sound more powerful and cool than they are. Sort of a last desperate attempt to sell it to you.