| ▲ | neilv 7 hours ago | |
> Your attention is finite, but the capacity for a large company to generate bad ideas is infinite. Speaking from experience, getting too involved in stopping these quickly can make you very cynical about the state of the world. And this is really not a good place to be. This also applies to the capacity of the industry to generate bad (and evil) ideas. Now that we're one of the biggest-money fields, there is no end of people thinking/behaving badly. You'll wear yourself out, calling out all of it. For example, I fled cryptocurrency entirely when it got overrun with bad faith. But I don't intend to flee AI, and so will have to ration the criticism I have for abuses there. > The nuclear option is [...] BTW, be careful in what context you use this idiom. It doesn't always translate well outside the US. (I realized this as soon as the words came out of my mouth, under perhaps the worst possible circumstances.) | ||