alt Hacker News"to give society time to explore its possibilities and co-develop norms and safeguards"
Or, "this safety stuff is harder than we thought, we're just going to call 'tag you're it' on society"
Or,
-Oppenheimer : speaking "man, this nuclear safety stuff is hard, I'm just going to put it all out there and let society explore developing norms and safeguards".
-Society : Bombs Japan
-Oppenheimer : "No, not like that, oops".
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Arnt • 12/09/2024
Aren't you kind of saying that you don't have any answers so therefore OpenAI should have provided the answers?
xvector • 12/09/2024
Eh, society did a pretty good job overall.
The bomb was the end of conventional warfare between nuclear nations. MAD has created an era of peace unlike anything our species has ever seen before.
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Oppenheimer was making a bomb from day 1, he knew exactly what he was doing and how it would be used. There aren't so many different use cases for a bomb, after all. It was a nice movie, but it does not absolve him