Comment by ericmay | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ericmay | Hacker News Reader

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  > This is an unreasonable demand.

I'm not making a demand, I'm setting an anchor point from which we can work backward from. Is there any doubt that if someone was 100% certain that Big AI Button was being built and it would kill all humans that said person has a moral obligation to do everything they can to stop the button from being built and pressed?

  > "You demand that he should kill multiple people rather than quit his job because he believes the above. This guy doesn't want to be part of the problem and may very well go on to advocate strongly against what's happening from outside Anthropic."

Horse Shit. Here's what was written [1]:

  "The people building Al earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt."

> You didn't read what he wrote, did you? Because that sensationalized comment seems to have originated entirely in your head.

Look in the mirror.

[1] https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476203863224394

> if someone was 100% certain

This is unreasonable because nobody can know 100% certain that the AI built at Anthropic will kill everyone. It is also a big-ass strawman because the author never claimed he was 100% certain that AI will kill all humans. You're arguing from an irrelevant hypothetical (in which, I might add, most people would still not automatically change into murderous psychopaths as you apparently think is normal).

> Horse Shit. Here's what was written

It's a whole thread, my man. And nowhere does it say "omg I’m quitting they’re going to kill everyone". Read the entire thread again and then say with a straight face that the gist of it is "omg I’m quitting they’re going to kill everyone".

> This is unreasonable because nobody can know 100% certain that the AI built at Anthropic will kill everyone. It is also a big-ass strawman because the author never claimed he was 100% certain that AI will kill all humans.

Ok then stop arguing about my hypothetical if you don't want to engage with it. Those of us who are interested in talking about it can do so in peace without distracting comments.

> change into murderous psychopaths as you apparently think is normal

Please stop engaging in this hyperbole and go find some other axe to grind.

> It's a whole thread, my man.

I took a direct quote from the thread where earlier you accused me of pedaling in sensationalism and "not reading".

I'm not the one reacting to reasonable behavior with some edgy comment containing broken logic.

The author of the Twitter thread is not some egotistical attention seeker and never said "omg I’m quitting they’re going to kill everyone". His logic for quitting his job and not acting like a psychopath is sound. Yours is not.

I've already explained the matter to my satisfaction.

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