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The problem is not the technology, the problem is the ideologues (Anthropic) who are steering the ship and the lack of decentralization and distribution of power.

Your average Anthropic ideologue - including and most especially the main man himself - would love nothing more than to eradicate 9/10ths of the planet's population, pump the survivors full of memory wiping drugs, bury the existence of AI deep underground and rule from the shadows for the next thousands of years.

This would be their wet dream. All in the name of "saving humanity from itself" - so they can convince themselves they're the good guys and deserving of this power. Anyone seen the latest season of Silo by the way?

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All this just means that most AI Researchers and Techis are sci-fi geeks and might be getting a bit too invested in that season of Black Mirror, Neal Stephenson, Cyberpunk or whatever else has evil AI in it -which is to say, they are by and large all sci-fi geeks, who are notoriously unreliable about predicting the impact of tech in the future.

Are LLMs really gonna kill us.. via inference runs? I hope I am not being foolish :)

20 years ago tech was gonna 'change the world' for the better. now 'Don't be Evil' is sign of the naiveté of industry

I'm not a doomer. I despise the fear campaign they're pushing for regulatory capture. But the world is still going to be a very unbalanced and dangerous place if they're able to succeed in their goals of hoarding power for themselves above all others.

Where exactly are you getting this view that folks at Anthropic want to eradicate 9/10ths of the planet's population? Who exactly is pushing this viewpoint?

Literally every single thing they do and say leads me to believe the scenario I described would be a fantasy for them. They're a radical cult collectively blinded by delusions of grandeur and a moral superiority complex who genuinely believe they are the only ones capable of wielding the proverbial sword.

How so?

It's a long story. If you're immersed in this world and aware of the movements all of the major AI players (in particular, Anthropic) have been doing over the last 3 years it paints a very clear picture. The patterns of behavior (the lying, cheating, stealing, the gaslighting, the virtue signalling, the grandstanding) speak for themselves.

Evidence? Are you Grok bot?

https://clawd.rip/

Unfortunately seems like they've stopped updating the site, and this is like 1/10th of what's going on, but it's a good start.

Some Jews see AI as a messianic entity, so it fits the bill.

What evidence do you have for any of this?

If you've been paying attention to Anthropic's behavior socially and as a company, there is an astronomical amount of evidence to support it.

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