alt Hacker NewsIf it makes you angry that people want to work to build AGI--people who have thought about it a lot more than you--you can't convince them to stop by repeatedly yelling "I don't think it's possible, you're a fool!"
No more than yelling "electricity is conspiracy thinking/Satan's plaything!" repeatedly would have stopped engineers in the 19th century from studying and building with it.
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delusional • 11/04/2025
Yet yelling: "why would have to die from blood loss, we can transfuse some right here" At Jehova's witnesses actually does help some.
We don't have to save everybody, but only by trying to we save some.
> If it makes you angry that people want to work to build AGI
What's this, a second straw-man? So quickly after the first?
TFA never condemned invention or hard work, nor does it agree with the "doomers" who consider the target-invention to be fundamentally bad. At most it's a critique of a set of beliefs/rationalizations plus choices made by investors.
> makes you angry [...] people who have thought about it a lot more than you [...] repeatedly yelling [...] "you're a fool!"
Who's angry? Who's making it personal?
I think reading the article made you angry... and you're projecting it onto everybody else.