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I don't have the energy for an argument like whats being instigated here, and what you're saying isn't quite relevant to what I'm saying sorry. (And if that's not the case, then also sorry. Social media has me beat)

What I'm saying is that the owners/ceos of the companies are saying they expect unrest/disruption/collapse from their technology (eg, Sam Altman saying exactly this), and yet the enthusiast base say this isn't the case. If I'm having a house built, and the architect says it will fall over, but other home owners say it won't, I feel I need to still trust what the architect is saying.

Sam has been repeating the idea that society would collapse because of AI long before ChatGPT existed whatsoever[0], it's his pet obsession and is part of why YC invested in him. It is a sci-fi delusion, and equally exhausting to hear people insist that it has to be taken for granted.

[0] https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-2

He is absolutely not alone in that, and even if you think it is delusional it is a shared opinion between many of the AI figureheads. My point being that the people in charge are telling a different story to the fans.

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