[TapWaterBandit]

I think this is one of the upsides of the chaos at OpenAI recently. It has really shined a light on how many of the people most fervently obsessed with "safe-AI" really aren't clearheaded or rational thinkers and are prone to making many disastrous and ill-advised decisions as anyone else. This is good because there is an unfortunate human tick where pessimism/cynicism is equated with wisdom while optimism is equated with naivety.

But when the pessimists and cynics show so clearly on such a large scale that they aren't uniformly wise or competent, it will allow more levelheaded perspectives towards LLMs and a more general cautious optimism be the guiding philosophy around developing these tools.

[addicted]

There’s very little to learn from the chaos least of all because we don’t even know what actually happened.

It’s a bit ridiculous to say one should change their entire worldview about a potentially world changing technology based on innuendo and rumors.