anyone who prioritizes the wellbeing of the “future of humanity” in the abstract over the dignity and care of individuals in the present cannot claim that they truly care about people
I’m struck by how profoundly non-humanistic many AI leaders sound.
- Sutton sees us as transitional artifacts
- x-risk/EA types reduce the human good to bare survival or aggregates of pleasure and pain
- e/accs reduce us to variables in a thermodynamic equation
- Alex Wang calls... See more
Brendan McCord 🏛️ x 🤖x.compeople building tech products so often miss the point
the point is to help people live a good life, not an efficient life
the point is resonance, not scale
the point is to deliver comfort, not just convenience
the goal is not... See more
sari azouttwitter.comif the future is not beautiful I’m not sure people will be drawn to it, or indeed fight for it…I would also suggest that we see beauty in the dignity of humanity insisting on the best of itself, the beauty of becoming wiser, of emancipation, and not just in nature or in artistic artefacts.