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jeconst··on I resigned from Anthropic today
> What’s the most dangerous thing that’s happened with an LLM so far?

This sounds like asking "What's the most dangerous thing that's happened from global warming so far?"

It's not where we're at, it's where we're headed if there isn't huge coordinated action now. You can see how that kind of thing has been going for global warming so far, and by all measures AI seems to be headed for the inflection point of unstoppability at a much faster pace.

And this warning is coming from someone who just spent three years working inside these companies and is likely aware of much more than has been publicly released.

Maybe it's all marketing bullshit (I hope), but it's also playing out exactly like I expect it would if it's not.

jeconst··on The damaging results of mandated return to office
"Unispace finds that nearly half (42%) of companies that mandated office returns witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated. And almost a third (29%) of companies enforcing office returns are struggling with recruitment. Imagine that — nearly half!"

Does this mean that 58% of companies that mandated a return underestimated attrition? And 71% are doing fine with recruitment?