top | item 45278445 The hunger strike to end AI 4 points| just_human | 5 months ago |theverge.com 2 comments order hn newest Terr_|5 months ago > The sign calls for Anthropic to “stop the race to artificial general intelligence”This strikes me as... weirdly misdirected, perhaps even actively counterproductive.1. It vastly overstates their product/positioning in a way that's basically free marketing for them.2. It distracts from much realer (but less dramatic) harms that can be blamed on the companies.Imagine someone protesting outside Doordash, with a sign saying: "Don't let home-cooking skills become extinct!!" just_human|5 months ago TL;DR: Protesters are conducting hunger strikes outside Anthropic (San Francisco) and Google DeepMind (London) offices to demand these companies stop racing toward artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Terr_|5 months ago > The sign calls for Anthropic to “stop the race to artificial general intelligence”This strikes me as... weirdly misdirected, perhaps even actively counterproductive.1. It vastly overstates their product/positioning in a way that's basically free marketing for them.2. It distracts from much realer (but less dramatic) harms that can be blamed on the companies.Imagine someone protesting outside Doordash, with a sign saying: "Don't let home-cooking skills become extinct!!"
just_human|5 months ago TL;DR: Protesters are conducting hunger strikes outside Anthropic (San Francisco) and Google DeepMind (London) offices to demand these companies stop racing toward artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Terr_|5 months ago
This strikes me as... weirdly misdirected, perhaps even actively counterproductive.
1. It vastly overstates their product/positioning in a way that's basically free marketing for them.
2. It distracts from much realer (but less dramatic) harms that can be blamed on the companies.
Imagine someone protesting outside Doordash, with a sign saying: "Don't let home-cooking skills become extinct!!"
just_human|5 months ago