@CounterApologis The idea seems to be that God provides just enough evidence to leave us at fault for not believing, but not so much that belief is easy.
@CounterApologis Have you read "They Flew" by Eire? I haven't but am curious about it because he seems like a reputable historian rather than an apologist.
@HeckhoffMarcel@OddStockTrader It's "bid day," which is the day they find out which sorority has invited them to join. It's a huge event at the big sports-centered unis.
@cbradedwards The staff of these AI companies is all drawn from the same crowd who buy into the effective altruism + transhumanism package. It's sincere.
Just thought of a new conspiracy theory: AI companies periodically give some expendable employee a big payout to quit and then post on social media about how the dreaded machine god is soon to arrive. Keeps the fearhype flowing.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.