Pluralistic: The real AI fight (27 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Last week's spectacular OpenAI soap-opera hijacked the attention of millions of normal, productive people and nonsensually crammed them full of the fine details of the debate between "Effective Altruism" (doomers) and "Effective Accelerationism" (AKA e/acc), a genuinely absurd debate that was allegedly at the center of the drama.
Orange Site is currently upset and turned off by Cory's view. I liked how he ended the piece:
This guy nails it. I completely missed how the open AI drama was, at bottom, a marketing blitz.