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> if you are worried about AI then you got shockingly lucky with the lab leadership.

You must be joking. Altman is a sociopath, Amodei is either too stupid or too evil to stop working on tech he claims will have a 10% chance of destroying humanity (and in either case he should be imprisoned to protect the rest of us from him), and Musk is a man-child who will lash out at anyone and everything who dares to speak ill of him. There's absolutely nothing "lucky" about having these jokers in charge of stuff.

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Other than Musk, the other two seem to me overall quite good stewards. Could have been much worse, and indeed hard to find someone better. How do you think someone could have been a better steward? There are 8 billion people in the world, almost all of them believe in absurd and mutually incompatible imaginary tales, its a very hard thing to create an information agent that doesn't offend a big fraction of the world.

I think it's pretty trivial to imagine ways in which they could've done better. For example, if you genuinely believe some tech has a 10% chance to destroy everyone alive, stop fucking developing it. There is no scenario where it is remotely acceptable to pursue such a risky goal. Amodei is either too stupid to see that, in which case he can't be trusted with anything sharper than a butter knife, or he's too evil to care about the risk, in which case he can't be trusted with anything at all. Or, more likely, he's lying to hype up his company, in which case he's a fraudster.

It's similarly easy to come up with "what Altman should do better". The dude is a genuine sociopath in charge of a company trying to make everyone's lives worse off in order to enrich him and his investors. It doesn't get much worse behaved than that.

If you impute its bog standard marketing/hyping, its the least evil and most mundane possible things you can expect in owners of such powerful tech. Your imagination is weak. Imagine if the owner was a Christian nationalist or Muslim fundamentalist as some examples.

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