Achiam Describes Youthful SF AGI Scene's Mixed Outlook
OpenAI researcher Joshua Achiam observes mixed attitudes in the young San Francisco AGI scene.
Joshua Achiam, Chief Futurist at OpenAI, posted that the San Francisco social scene around AGI and ASI carries a distinctive tone because most participants are young. He described the prevailing mindset as a blend of irreverence, ironic detachment, yearning, insecurity, absolute belief in the importance of the work, and simultaneous disbelief about its scale. Chris Maddison, an academic at the University of Toronto, quoted the post and added that the situation must feel strange to any aging researcher in the city.
One of the weirdest quirks of the SF social scene around AGI/ASI is that because everyone is so young, the whole universe of thinking is still tinged with irreverence, ironic detachment, yearning, insecurity, and a superposition of absolute belief in the importance of The Thing…
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Chris J. Maddison@cjmaddisonMust be strange to be an aging research in SF.
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BB billy bubba bingus-drumpfus@wgrathwohl@cjmaddison must be strange to have yer social life revolve around AGI/ASI
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LG JA Joshua Achiam@jachiam0One of the weirdest quirks of the SF social scene around AGI/ASI is that because everyone is so young, the whole universe of thinking is still tinged with irreverence, ironic detachment, yearning, insecurity, and a superposition of absolute belief in the importance of The Thing…
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