No, AI has real, immediate, large-scale industrial and scientific applications. Cryptocurrency is a massive disappointment, but AI has genuine potential value.

> genuine potential value

That's some beautiful mental and verbal gymnastics.

That's some cynical ignorance.

Yes, it was good. It seems clear that Farrow and his co-author approached it in a methodical, fair-minded way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr_sB1Hl0oM

I don't condone violence, but the contract he's signed with the US military is a credible threat to everyone in the US. OpenAI will now certainly be called on to assist in domestic mass surveillance, under threat of the kind of severe penalties Anthropic has faced. So why did he agree to that contract, unless he's will to provide that assistance? So it's gone well beyond conversation, though not to a point where violence is appropriate. Boycotts and hostility are definitely appropriate at this point IMO, though.

Yeah, it's kind of terrifying, how this incident seems to have faded from people's memories.

> The only solution I can come up with is to orient towards sharing the technology with people broadly, and for no one to have the ring. The two obvious ways to do this are individual empowerment and *making sure democratic system stays in control.*

OK! So he's going to renege on the contract he's signed with Hegseth, which effectively commits OpenAI to serving as the IT Department for Trump's secret service?

The hatred is particularly intense on reddit. I lost a couple of accounts there to suspension, just for speaking a civil way about the positive aspects of AI.

I don't condone violence, but it's hardly surprising that people would resort to or support it in this case, considering that by stepping in where Anthropic refused to help the US military, sama essentially agreed that OpenAI will serve as the IT Department for Trump's secret police. Either that, or he's willing for OpenAI to endure a similar punishment when he refuses the inevitable demand to assist with domestic mass surveillance.

> If all of us can go hunting in the woods and yet there is still game to be found, then there's no compelling reason to define and litigate who "owns" those woods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism

Yeah, it's easy to vibecode and review a docker sandbox, too. If you run containers with

   --runtime=runsc
   --cap-drop=ALL
   --security-opt no-new-privileges:true

it's pretty tight. That's how I use coding agents, FWIW.