John Carlos Baez on Nostr: The social scene around AI and AI safety is more unpleasant than I realized. I'm sure ...
The social scene around AI and AI safety is more unpleasant than I realized. I'm sure there are other sides to it. But when you get a lot of young men with too much money who think they're building god or saving the world, what do you expect?
Read the long Bluesky thread about this, collected on one page:
https://skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsky.social/3mvom4b4dn22qI can't confirm this stuff. I stay far away from this scene. But....
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