okareaman

There will be two groups of people: those who figure out how to use AI to their benefit and those who don't

The beauty with the internet and now AI is that it greatly reduces the power of and need for gatekeepers who take most of the profit

You need to calm the f down. Do you understand anything about machine learning, software and hardware? How do you propose that some configuration will become generally intelligent given what we know today? I'd really like to hear your theories, then maybe I'd be frightened too.

I think it goes deeper than that. I think some are exploiting "end time" religious fears in America to get AI taken away and restricted from the public because a public empowered by AI is a threat to the current power structure. This isn't any different than what has already gone on in America, just now with AI

For example, Peter Doocy of Fox made a point of reading outloud at a White House press briefing the words of Eliezer Yudkowsky: "If we don't shut down AI everyone on Earth will die" Evangelicals watch Fox. They were the target. Doocy didn't have to read such dramatic words aloud. He could have said something much more neutral.

This is a very fluid and chaotic situation so I'd be more concerned if he said one thing and stuck to it

When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do, Sir? - John Maynard Keynes

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do I contradict myself? / Very well then, I contradict myself. / (I am large, I contain multitudes) - Walt Whitman's “Song of Myself”

William Randolph Hearst anyone? Maybe people have heard of a little movie called Citizen Kane?

"Flood the zone with bullshit" - Steve Bannon

In my last submission I asked, Ask HN: Are leaders genuinely afraid of AI or do they have an agenda?

Here's my answer

Learning to use your tools is part of any job. I don't understand the point of this article or why such a low quality entry is on the front page.

Good point. It's a crazy, mixed up world we live in.