alt Hacker NewsLesswrong / “doomers” have been sounding the alarm on this for over a decade. Sam Altman himself was familiar with the milieu and agreed “Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.”
It’s baffling these concerns have been drowned out for so long until now that we’re finally at a point they are unequivocally undeniable, we get people saying the alarm has just been sounded. Ya because “doomers” were repeatedly dismissed as their predictions became true year after year
And yet, plenty of those same LessWrong users went on to work at OpenAI and Anthropic making boatloads of money, like how Sam Altman decided wealth and power was actually more important than “x-risk”.
Then backfilled reasons why that’s actually ethically sound like Dario Amodei is doing right now (because the other guys are already doing it and getting rich).
So it’s not surprising to start to tune out the intellectual movement that’s most high profile contribution ended up being “we must build the evil machine god to prevent the evil machine god from killing us all, while coincidentally building generational wealth for ourselves”.