Yes, let take morality out of our daily lives as much as possible... That seems like a great categorical imperative and a recipe for social success
replyThere's nothing moral about Anthropic. Especially to those of us who are not American citizens and to which Dario's pronouncements about ethics apparently do not apply, as stated in his own press release.
replyTo me it just looks like a big sanctimonious festival of hypocrisy.
That's an incredibly uncharitable take on what I said. But that kind of proves my point.
replyFoist your morality upon everyone else and burden them with your specific conscience; sounds like a fun time.
What is the charitable way to look at it then?
replyHow about assuming the positive intent of what I actually said? Not everything has to be a moral crusade. Let me use the tool without pushing your personal moral opinions on me.
replyThe same person wringing their hands over OpenAI, buys clothing made from slave labor and wrote that comment using a device with rare earth materials gotten from slave labor. Why is OpenAI the line? Why are they allowed to "exploit people" and I'm not?
Taken to its logical conclusion it's silly. And instead of engaging with that, they deflect with oH yEaH lEtS hAvE nO mOrAlS which is clearly not what I'm advocating.
My most charitable interpretation of what you are saying is: Two wrongs make a right. If others exploit people that makes it an acceptable thing for me to do. No one can criticize me for doing a bad thing because others also do bad things. Is that what you are saying?
replyI genuinely cannot see how to interpret it in a way that is positive.
Yeah, why actually engage with moral issues when we can just defer to a status quo that happens to benefit me?
reply"Not everything" - sure, but mass surveillance and autonomous killing are kind of big things to sweep under that rug no?
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