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points by EarlKing 1 day ago | 0 comments

The ironic part is that this same guy undoubtedly relies on the expertise of millions of human agents and sees absolutely nothing wrong with that.

[–] navhc 1 day ago

He is a humanist, how could relying on humans possibly go against his beliefs?

[–] EarlKing 20 hours ago

The word "relying" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. The point I'm making is that "relying" on human experts, as opposed to AI experts, is the same thing: you're giving up your autonomy for the illusion of productivity, and in the process courting disaster. To put it another way: Every single one of you who downvoted me has clearly never read Frank Herbert's Dune. Machine-think is not limited to machines.

[–] bunderbunder 1 day ago

Where's the irony? Everything the article reports about Durman's opinions would seem to suggest that millions of humans mutually supporting each other is exactly the kind of thing that he wants to see happening.

[–] mag7269 1 day ago

“Expertise of millions of human agents” …in what? Understanding the universe that’s around us? In the cosmic sense, we humans have not done anything at all, aside from trying to understand it and “chimping out” from time to time.

It’s just that our human-centric bias is showing. We are not the main characters of this universe. Not by a long shot. Heck, in the planetary sense, we feel like earth belongs to us, but chances are we will not be in the top 1,000,0000th of its inhabitants as species by the amount of time spent living on it when life inevitably ceases to exist on it at some point in the future.

We monkeys are sure dumb and self-centered.

[–] staticman2 1 day ago

Every A.I. related post here has someone saying "I for one see no difference between a human being and an A.I." but this may be the first time I've seen this cliche extended to "How bizarre to meet a human being that thinks humans are not identical to A.I."

[–] bluefirebrand 1 day ago

It really highlights how misanthropic many AI booster people are. I find it really discouraging to see.

Also shows how Anthropic's name is really a misnomer. :)

[–] anon7725 1 day ago

That doesn’t seem ironic at all. Irony is merely the condition where appearance and reality differ. In this case, if he values his own thinking he presumably values the thinking of other persons.

[–] platevoltage 1 day ago

If someone told me this was a Sam Altman quote, I'd believe them.

[–] duskdozer 1 day ago

>human agents

What? Are you trying to say "people"?