Hacker News Reader

Comment by spiderice | Hacker News Reader

I love how people are spouting this argument suddenly in their attempt to justify Anthropic here. It definitely couldn't be that Anthropic is full of a bunch of people who think they're making God.

edit: Loving the downvotes. Also wanted to add how easy it was for Anthropic to get people on HN to support them being the arbiters of what is worthy of compute.

View on HN

For what it's worth, I had this thought independently around the time of Nintendogs, and I believe people said similar things about Siri. I have similar thoughts about xenophobic things people say about French people.

"Anthropic is full of crazy people whose beliefs should be dismissed outright" and "it's not good for you to practice verbal abuse against inanimate objects as if they were humans" are not incompatible beliefs.

French people are people. Inanimate objects are objects.

Yes indeed, we are not in disagreement.

"it's not good for you to practice verbal abuse against inanimate objects as if they were humans" and "corporations should not use their power to determine what is worthy of compute" are not incompatible beliefs either.

And the implications of the latter are orders of magnitudes more concerning than weirdos calling a computer names.

Yes, I agree. I regularly have to input "You are not a person" to get useful text to generate so I suspect I'd fall under this new policy too.

That's exactly what they are thinking.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com