I disagree. Science seems to support different interpretations as well.
An example.
"AI as your ally: The effects of AI-assisted venting on negative affect and perceived social support"
- https://iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ap...
And generations of housewives and office workers yelled at their corded vacuum cleaners and (office) computers, and did not drown their children in the bathtub afterwards.
I don’t think expressing cruelty to machines is reliably linkable to expressing cruelty to animals or even other human beings.
Expressing cruelty itself also is in human nature, it’s programmed into each of us. There are really only a few privileged places on this planet where we even get to choose to defy the laws of nature. For the rest of humanity, life is a constant cycle of receiving and expressing cruelty.
You pay for the compute, you, as a human, should be able to yell at the bunch of ones and zeros, if you wish to.
What kind of example is set here if we manipulate genuine human expression in order to condition humans to talk to a tool in a way the toolmaker wants, under the threat of being banned from accessing a technology that every single one of these toolmakers tells us is absolutely necessary to participate in humanity’s "golden age”?
What Anthropic is doing here is basically an existential threat, if you are inclined to believe them that SI is the future. Do not behave as we want and you will suffer, now and in the future.
That is real cruelty, to real human beings.
An example.
"AI as your ally: The effects of AI-assisted venting on negative affect and perceived social support" - https://iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ap...
And generations of housewives and office workers yelled at their corded vacuum cleaners and (office) computers, and did not drown their children in the bathtub afterwards.
I don’t think expressing cruelty to machines is reliably linkable to expressing cruelty to animals or even other human beings.
Expressing cruelty itself also is in human nature, it’s programmed into each of us. There are really only a few privileged places on this planet where we even get to choose to defy the laws of nature. For the rest of humanity, life is a constant cycle of receiving and expressing cruelty.
You pay for the compute, you, as a human, should be able to yell at the bunch of ones and zeros, if you wish to.
What kind of example is set here if we manipulate genuine human expression in order to condition humans to talk to a tool in a way the toolmaker wants, under the threat of being banned from accessing a technology that every single one of these toolmakers tells us is absolutely necessary to participate in humanity’s "golden age”?
What Anthropic is doing here is basically an existential threat, if you are inclined to believe them that SI is the future. Do not behave as we want and you will suffer, now and in the future.
That is real cruelty, to real human beings.