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I mean, you're not wrong, but by that logic we were done for even before we had digital computers.

And isn't that the great lesson of AI?

The things we say publicly actually do matter and the post-modern descent into absurdity and nihilism has tangible negative consequences?

> The things we say publicly actually do matter

Certainly

> the post-modern descent into absurdity and nihilism has tangible negative consequences?

You mean breaking AIs? Not much of a lesson.

Oh come on. It's also trained on fiction work. Shall we refrain from posting sci-fi stories too, now that we're there, just in case the AI might want to try it out?

Obviously we can and do whatever we want, but yeah, maybe being more optimistic generally would be a good thing for us.

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