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It’s unwise to keep comparing this situation to Luddite’s. It’s a mental trap.

This tool could be a lot more dangerous on many levels than a freaking loom, it’s ok to ask questions about turning it off.

Maybe time to start writing to politicians at least asking about how we are planning to try live with further automation etc before private companies just unleash massive beta programs on all of society. We should be asking government to setup independent bodies to over see this research.

I’m not anti technology or progress at all, but if something is harmful, distressing, dangerous etc, People have the right to question if we’re going in the right direction or not and feel empowered to make progress in the right direction.

I mean who the hell are OpenAI to be self-regulating masters of everyone's destiny?

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How many hundreds of millions of people die of cancer caused by forever chemicals? Its not like we know or even really try to find out of course, but complaining about self-regulation of chemical companies seems almost quaint at this point. Or just think of dangerous chemicals on trains speeding through populated areas regularly crashing in a literal inferno, the first huge oil drilling projects in the north pole getting started now despite imminent climate catastrophy or deregulated banks too big to fail getting bailed out in regular intervals leading to huge profits to investors, I could literally go on like this for hours...

I mean if you think OpenAI self-regulating ethics questions on a chatbot is anywhere near a priority for you, you need to recalibrate your perception of the state of the western neoliberal hegemony.

This tool could be a lot more dangerous on many levels than a freaking loom

Not quite sure that's how the Luddites viewed it. I suspect they thought that if something is harmful, distressing, dangerous etc, People have the right to question if we’re going in the right direction or not. We've seen the same views with the introduction of every new technology but so far none of them have destroyed the human race.

This is seen as something earth shattering now, and in many ways it is but I suspect in time it will become a loom, another tool like all the others. One to be superseded in time by something another step beyond.

We can't keep using the same examples and arguments for different situations.

I like the quote: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

Nukes, can kill all of us, it's only through non-proliferation effort we stand a chance. Gene drives, we can alter the environment dramatically. Burning coal at scale is arguably a technology, it will kill us if we don't change course.

I get you're point of view, I do, but I don't think it's a wise position to continue to take.

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