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freetime2yesterday at 11:27 PM3 repliesview on HN

My personal stance is that the genie is out of the bottle, and there's likely no putting it back. Kind of like nuclear weapons: I wish they didn't exist, but since they do I'd rather be on the side that has them.

Honestly it's an incredible technology the likes of which I never thought I would see in my lifetime. It's definitely not perfect, but it is improving at a frightening pace. Some days I am optimistic for how it might shape the future, and other days I am scared.

If goverments wanted to make a credible effort to limit how they are used, I would support that. But I'm not terribly optimistic that can or will happen.


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stodor89today at 5:42 AM

> Kind of like nuclear weapons

True, but you're not being bombarded 24/7 with irrelevant -- and most likely false -- information about nuclear weapons.

PaulDavisThe1sttoday at 12:12 AM

How a post about "Hacker News, Sans AI" became about .... AI !

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onetokeoverthetoday at 12:24 AM

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