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by LoganDark 1 hour ago
> There was no change in how real the wolf is.

That's exactly my point. It hasn't changed for so long, despite all their crying and screaming, that I don't believe them either.

To be perfectly clear, "the wolf" here would be AI becoming a genuine existential threat to humanity that cannot be contained or controlled in a meaningful sense. That's what I refer to in my original comment, and also what the labs have been crying so much about.

A frontier lab today is not that threat because they can choose to shut off their systems at any time. It currently remains a people problem and not a technology problem. There's no self-improving technology that can also replicate itself to evade containment, yet.

But they've been crying about the possibility, constantly, incessantly, and of course saying they need more money about it too. That's just what corporations do. But because they've been crying so much about something that literally does not exist, their cries have just become pointless noise to me. I have considered them eyeroll-worthy marketing stunts for a while.

If one day "the wolf" actually happens, I could not learn about it from the frontier labs themselves, because I would not believe them. They've cried about nothing for so long that I've stopped listening. That's what I mean about having to see it with my own eyes. Until that point, their crying is just pointless, meaningless noise, and there's nothing they can do to change that now.