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@trwnh To an extent, I think "paying attention to these people is a mistake, because it only makes them more powerful"
But the idea that there's a guy out there who's main achievement is writing 660k words of Harry Potter fanfic, and Elon Musk and Sam Altman take this guy seriously, is very funny
@trwnh The Harry Potter Fanfic guy is a "noted thought leader" in the "ChatGPT is going to evolve into the singularity" camp
I'm conflating him with the "AI maximalists" which he'd disagree with, but IMO "AGI is a serious concern" is still hype for LLMs, even if Yudkowsky himself would claim his viewpoint to be "AGI is a serious concern, so we should stop working on ChatGPT incase it becomes sentient and kills us"
@Tertle950 @cwebber I don't know if I agree entirely with the people in either room
But in one of the rooms, I'd be considerably less worried that someone's going to try to talk to me about Eliezer Yudkowsky's Harry Potter Fanfic
@cwebber I consider myself a late adopter, and I'm not really sure I have strong opinions on AI dev tooling, but the way I think about this personally is:
"Imagine being at a party, and you have a choice of hanging out in a room full of AI maximalists or a room full of AI detractors"
One of those rooms sounds like it'd be completely fucking intolerable