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200Bn Weights of Responsibility

by danjc on 1/3/25, 9:27 AM with 9 comments

  • by muzani on 1/3/25, 3:31 PM

    Ironic. Out there are artists who feel intense anxiety from the advancements of AI sapping away at their passion. Here is someone who has both passion and money, feeling the same kind of anxiety.

    We've been told it's not a zero sum game, that there's a net gain at the end of this game. But what if there's net loss?

  • by xdavidliu on 1/6/25, 2:58 AM

  • by abc-1 on 1/6/25, 4:45 AM

    > Doing AI research at the moment can feel like participating in a war. And from Adolph Hitler to Dutch Schulz. it is widely known that going to war can lead to grave outcomes including psychopathy, divorce and suicide.

    Brother… Please… you’re an AI researcher probably making half a million dollars a year to screw around with hyperparams or cuda kernels, shoveling some of the worst python code I’ve ever seen. Get over it.