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Ed Zetron

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
350 total appearances

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Don't go outside.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Don't meet with people.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Don't be indoors with people.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Great.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

In this case, it's like, yep, you should be scared of this.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And what should you do?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Fuck knows.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Use chat GPT, I guess.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And what's really confusing to me as well is you say, oh, these people don't think they'll be safe.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

For the most part, I just don't, I actually take back what I said.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I think a lot of them just don't acknowledge it.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

They don't acknowledge the core ridiculousness of being like, well, everyone's jobs are going to get replaced.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I don't know, like the Garfield meme with him looking at the Garfield with the cross out on the TV.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Yeah, flawlessly described there.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It's frustrating as well because it is terrifying people.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I'm not saying literally Axios or however, but stories like this are what made a mentally unstable person throw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It's obvious that these people were scared of the AI doom, partly because, to your point, what the fuck are we meant to do about it?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Because using these tools is not...

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I don't really see how that works, because going along that line of logic, if the answer is you need to use this stuff now, but the eventual end point is that it's intelligent enough to do everything for you, how does using it now matter at all?