alt Hacker NewsA safety plan. It doesn't have to be "a few very smart people detached from reality convincing themselves they're messiahs that must keep the tech from the Bad Guys(tm), unwashed masses, and a runaway, because they think their interpretation of their own sci-fi lore is the only possible course of events"
>I hope you'll keep this in mind when those milestones are reached.
The problem is that people in charge of AI keep making self-fulfilling prophecies. Just like with any research, if you want to find something sensible in the cloud patterns, you will.
What is an example you have in mind of a self-fulfilling prophecy? I genuinely don't know what you could be referring to. It seems to me that they keep making surprising prophecies, and the popular reaction to them seamlessly transitions from "that's crazy, no way it will happen" to "that's silly, it's just a cloud pattern". Did you find it obvious or self-fulfilling in 2025 that LLMs would soon be able to resolve open questions in mathematical research?