Schrödinger's Tech Bro: Both the master of artificial superintelligence and a very very smol boy who cannot possibly be expected to control it.

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Contradictorily, framing interventions as heroic battles against a Balrog gives these companies an excuse when they fail to intervene. How can we hold them accountable for controlling something they’ve spent so much time telling us is beyond their control? And also they’re so incredibly smol?

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The “IT’S ALIVE!” narrative reinforced by wording like “ordered,” “rogue,” or “tried to escape” distorts public understanding of how these systems work and what they’re capable of. It doesn’t make AI any less popular with the public; it just glazes the already megalomaniacal men who run it.

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“Ordered Claude to stop” is such anthropomorphic mythmaking goofiness. Whatever the significance of the original behavior, the fix was an engineering decision, not a fiery Gandalfian confrontation with an autonomous intelligence.

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place i go for coffee, i walk in and ask my guy how he’s doing, he says thank god. he says how are you love, i say oh im alright. he asks after sean, i look at pictures of his nephew. THAT is what it should mean to be recognized at a coffee shop

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