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Comment by axegon_ | Hacker News Reader

In all fairness, I wouldn't be surprised if the claims are true, given all the psychosis and cult-like behavior within all slop corps. It honestly feels like the Virgin Mary episode of South Park.

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“The claim isn’t true but I wouldn’t be surprised if it were true so I’m going to believe it and further solidify my opinion on the topic” is the exact kind of bias people are talking about.

Why would you not be surprised if the claims are true? Because you have read hundreds of made up stories like this one on internet forums. It’s all a self perpetuating bullshit machine.

No, because anthropic, google, nvidia, openai, etc. employees are publicly acting like lunatics. In fact I know lunatics that act way more sane than them.

Which employees? How are they acting like "lunatics"? Are there any examples? What percent of total employees does that represent? Is that more or less than the average amount of "lunatics" in this world?

Or is the answer to all of these "I don't know, I just feel this way."

I'd have to unblock linkedin and twitter from my Pihole and register(which I don't intend to do for the sake of my mental health) but literally anyone listed as an employee, just look them up yourself: All day long it's "the new model is so powerful, we must never release it", "we will all die in 6 months", "this is the end of humanity" and so on for weeks before they release the next slop-crapper and bump up the prices. It's literally like every Musk appearance on a new Tesla 10 years ago, or Apple or Microsoft or whatever. The whole AI fanaticism is exactly that: religious fanaticism with a new skin pack.

So LinkedIn, Twitter, Reddit hacker news. Top sources in the world. You really need to step outside and talk to real people. Go have coffee with someone who works at OpenAI or Anthropic. Will tell you a lot more about the AI industry than years worth of online brainrot.

On the contrary: I've blocked all of those sites for a reason. And I had, not coffee or lunch, but dinner with a now former openai employee who left because of everything I said: AI is a religious cult lead by a bunch of incompetent griefters.

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