[mbgerring]

This is not an “optimistic case.” This is faith-based airhead nonsense. I want to understand:

- If the people working on AI actually believe they’re building a God

- If so, why do they believe that

- If not, is there some optimistic case for LLMs based on something I don’t understand

What I got was “yes we are building a God, and despite all available evidence, it will be great! I promise!”

This is the language and behavior of a cult. If this is the actual optimist case, this entire train needs to be derailed yesterday.

[cphoover]

100% agree. There's no substance to the argument, just the same cultish rhetoric from the aristocracy trying to fleece us into thinking that, while they simultaneously push mass layoffs and aim to drive down the price of labor, they are actually doing this to benefit us in the long run. "Just wait," they say. Once the AI future comes to fruition, you will eat "peaches and cream" and "bask in the sun all day." "You will dance in this utopian paradise." How could anyone possibly take this seriously, and are we expected not to see, plainly, the self-interested agenda being dressed up in the language of collective uplift?