>>14390090I don't even wan't to look at LW much anymore, it's a shame because it and SSC got me into AI in the first place. But more and more they seem neurotic and nihilistic in a non productive way.
I think part of it is signaling, I'm pretty sure the tl:dr of
>>14390588 is that you should continue to work in spite of almost certain doom. (assuming you believe we are certainly doomed). But it comes out so self conident that I'm guess it cuts out moderate people but leaves the true believers.
PaLM and DALL-E 2 kicked their neurotic AI doom bee's nest. I'll come back to read their every now and again interesting posts once that die with dignity stuff calm down