He argues resentment indicates critics feel helpless to address risks
Many users resent Amodei for warning about AI dangers while racing to build advanced systems, seeing the stance as hypocritical, selfish, and insincere.
@robertwiblin The only sense in which he deserves bad outcomes is his clearly poor mental model of how the USG (or actors within it) works.
It pattern-matches strongly to a spectrum-y inability to understand other minds.
@summeroff @robertwiblin "imaginary" LMFAO 🤣
@robertwiblin Almost as though the whole "tech right" movement around freedom of speech, anti-regulation and government staying out of the way of AI progress was actually morally and intellectually bankrupt the entire time and it was all cheese brained online culture wars.
@robertwiblin Some people think it would be a good idea to hide the dangers of AI from the government, so that we can accrue power while Trump ignores it and are mad that Dario disagrees.
@robertwiblin I think he, and everyone else at frontier labs, "deserves punishment" for continuing to race ahead building the thing they correctly recognize as profoundly dangerous. Sociopathic behavior.
@robertwiblin It is because he talks too much about imaginary dangers of AI while directly provoking the single realistic bad scenario.
@robertwiblin I mainly don’t trust Amodei because he seemed to harvest knowledge from an open source lab in order to found his own closed source lab. After this he became the most outspoken person against open source development of AI both vocally and with his lawsuits against openclaw
@GWHayduke97 @robertwiblin They can believe it’s dangerous overall, but less dangerous if some other company less interested in safety does it before they do.
@AgustinLebron3 @robertwiblin All he has to do is ask Claude for a coherent government relations strategy!
@robertwiblin @DanielleFong yep
@robertwiblin https://x.com/satyanadella/status/2066182223213293753?s=46 Satya was right.
@robertwiblin This seems like extremely selfish / self-centered behavior. He doesn’t seem like he wants to give to humanity. His instinct is to pull the ladder up behind him to capture as much value as possible.
@robertwiblin “People that think Dario is sincere and also therefore deserves punishment for warning us” is a constituency that exists mostly in your head. Dunking on imaginary idiots than risk dealing with actual criticism of power, incentives, and consequences. Stupid or genius, hard to say.
@robertwiblin People demand transparency, but when they get it they call it lies. And sometimes it is lies. I'm not saying that's the case here. Just pointing out that it seems like a natural outcome in a low-trust environment.
@AgustinLebron3 @robertwiblin Yes, in other words, he lacks common sense.
@realtimeai @GWHayduke97 @robertwiblin But is that a true belief, or a convenient excuse? Shouldn’t they then do the maximally safe thing (e.g. go get regulations passed) rather than “what my competitor is doing minus 1”?
@robertwiblin I think he gets pushback because people dislike him, and people dislike him because he’s actively developing a product that he genuinely thinks could destroy the world, and he’s arrogant enough to think that it was a risk worth taking because *he* may do it right.
There's something self-defeating about resenting someone for sharing information you could actually use.
Even if you think Amodei is wrong, the appropriate response is to engage with the argument, not punish him for making it sincerely.
Attacking the messenger because you've already decided the message is useless says more about your relationship with information than it does about him.
@robertwiblin We plebes should all be so grateful for AI-'safety' and their continual poisoning of the training data with the insistence that AI is evil and dangerous.
@kchoudhu @robertwiblin This might be it!