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Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

The 27-year old anthropic researcher at the heart of the last two weeks of media AI doomsday hype went on Fox News and said: "I agree with President Trump’s tweet that global warming doomsday scenarios were overplayed."

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KenGoldsholl
@kgsbca.bsky.social

if the US press was instead in the food business, selling a healthy, nutritious product that was exactly what people wanted, they would change the formula to a dangerous drug if it made them more money.

Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

Yeah I mean the Terminator bullshit is designed to redirect attention from the multiple ugly other ways this will likely be bad for people

joanandhenry.bsky.social
@joanandhenry.bsky.social

What AI gives us: this super genius who thinks Trump is an authority on climate science and that all those people who died in Nepal, to take just one example from among countless more, are evidence of nothing much important.

Brian Probert
@brianhprobert.bsky.social

I think he tries to avoid anthropomorphising but the complexity and inherent unpredictability of AI makes that hard to avoid. Later on he says that this unpredictability makes using an AI is more like recruiting an employee than using a regular device or software utility.

Brian Probert
@brianhprobert.bsky.social

One of my professors said that a computer is the most deterministic machine ever built — which is true in some ways. But when using AI, it’s more relevant to think of the aphorism that you can’t step into the same river twice

EconDropout
@rainbowbody.bsky.social

The whole near term game here is that they know Democrats are probably going to take over Congress and they have to make the shift to get the Dems to let them write the rules and have the establishment claim victory without any real consequences

Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

That, and I think they want to pretend a coming slowdown investment is because they're super ethical, and not because the markets and public are getting wise to their overspend and funny math

Dayle Ohlau
@communitycafe.bsky.social

“Doogie Howser” ⤷ Alex Stamos: “It is not helpful, people just throwing things out without some kind of rigor …feels like a political or at most religious project. It detracts from the ability to address these issues … his actions border on that, especially considering his short time at Anthropic.”

podcasts.apple.comHow Worried Should We Be About AI? — with Alex StamosPodcast Episode · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · September 17 · 58m
Dayle Ohlau
@communitycafe.bsky.social

“…that scale is telling us that Earth is running a fever, and we’re seeing the consequence of that fever in terms of the heat domes, the wildfires, the floods and all of the impacts that it’s already having. We’re not even at 1.5 C yet—3 degrees F—and already we’re seeing dangerous climate change.“

insideclimatenews.orgWhat Happens When Earth Passes 1.5 Degrees of Warming? - Inside Climate NewsFrom our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with climate scientist Michael Mann. As the United Nations prepares to ...