Scientists are easily blindsided by psychos dealing with enormous amounts of money and power. They also happen to suck at politics.
100%. Technical staff rarely have exceptional political awareness and that seems to be the case this weekend. To be fair we don't know what triggered everything so while the dust settles this position may change.
Yeah clearly, at least I have no clue what really happened and don't feel like I have enough info to put anything together at this point.
Longtermism strikes again! Somehow the future is considered more important to think about than the steps we need to take today to reach that future. Or any future, really.
Yep, thinking days ahead is sooooo long term! We need high frequency strategy!
> are building AGI
Well, probably not anymore.
they were never any closer to building AGI than they were to inventing a perpetual motion machine
One violates the laws of physics and the other does not. In fact, you have one behind your nose.