[rg111]

I wonder why anyone won't see Sam Altman's spreading fear was fully planned to raise fear among people so they put pressure on lawmakers to make a licensing system that will lead to OpenAI benefitting in a massive and decisive way and leading to regulatory capture by the market incumbent.

Someone who boots up something like Worldcoin cannot be fundamentally wired to care about AI safety at all.

[SpicyLemonZest]

I’m just universally skeptical of arguments that someone can’t genuinely care about X because they don’t have the stance I think that would imply on Y. People are complicated and our self-consistency is imperfect at best.