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Begging news media to stop making themselves unwitting NPCs in a weird cult's alternate reality game You do not need to breathlessly repeat claims that LLMs will end the world or create utopia with handwavy details or abstract philosophical arguments Ask follow-up questions or hire people who can

Just because someone who is literally selling something makes extraordinary unfounded claims about it doesn't make it true You know this about vacuum cleaners; it's embarrassing that you can't hold it in your heads about computers

If a startup CEO were in your DMs claiming that there was a real risk of a computer virus "jumping the species barrier" and creating a pandemic in humans, would you believe that? What if their startup sold viruses?

What if their proposed solution was that regulators treat all the present effects of viruses as "a distraction" and focus instead in preventing their sketchily-described digital pandemic?