[a_wild_dandan]

Oh absolutely, AI labs certainly talk their books, including any safety angles. The controversy/outrage extended far beyond those incentivized companies too. Many people had good faith worries about Llama. Open-weight models are now vastly more powerful than Llama-1, yet the sky hasn't fallen. It's just fascinating to me how apocalyptic people are.

I just feel lucky to be around in what's likely the most important decade in human history. Shit odds on that, so I'm basically a lotto winner. Wild times.

[vlmutolo]

About 7% of people who have ever lived are alive today. Still pretty lucky, but not quite winning the lottery.

[foltik]

Much luckier if you consider everyone who ever will live, assuming we don’t destroy ourselves.

[4b6442477b1280b]

>Many people had good faith worries about Llama.

ah, but that begs the question: did those people develop their worries organically, or did they simply consume the narrative heavily pushed by virtually every mainstream publication?

the journos are heavily incentivized to spread FUD about it. they saw the writing on the wall that the days of making a living by producing clickbait slop were coming to an end and deluded themselves into thinking that if they kvetch enough, the genie will crawl back into the bottle. scaremongering about sci-fi skynet bullshit didn't work, so now they kvetch about joules and milliliters consumed by chatbots, as if data centers did not exist until two years ago.

likewise, the bulk of other "concerned citizens" are creatives who use their influence to sway their followers, still hoping against hope to kvetch this technology out of existence.

honest-to-God yuddites are as few and as retarded as honest-to-God flat earthers.

[kridsdale3]

I've been pretty unlucky to have encountered more than my fair share of IRL Yuddites. Can't stand em.

[ipaddr]

"the most important decade in human history."

Lol. To be young and foolish again. This covid laced decade is more of a placeholder. The current decade is always the most meaningful until the next one. The personal computer era, the first cars or planes, ending slavery needs to take a backseat to the best search engine ever. We are at the point where everyone is planning on what they are going to do with their hoverboards.

[graemep]

> ending slavery

happened over many centuries, not in a given decade. Abolished and reintroduced in many places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_abolition_of_slave...