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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by mlrtime on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:07AM (#38346846)
>Humans are really bad in assessing situations larger than their immediate family

Agreed, and we're also bad at being told what to do. Especially when someone says they know better than us.

What we are extremely good at is adaptation and technological advancement. Since we know this already , why do we try to stop or slow progress.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by 9dev on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:15AM (#38346902)
That is no reason to throw all ethic considerations over board. We have ethics panels on scientific studies for a very good reason, unless you want to let Dr. Mengele and his friends decide on progress.

It is a good thing that society has mechanisms to at least try and control the rate of progress.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by mlrtime on Monday November 20, 2023 @08:19AM (#38347543)
There is no objective ethic considerations, furthermore the events unfolding now have absolutely 0 evidence that "ALL" ethic considerations are being thrown overboard.

Godwin's Law.

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