https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/black-box-the-chatbots...
I think LLMs are an astonishingly powerful technology, but I think their tendency to induce the ELIZA effect makes it socially irresponsible to go about as though you've created a literal Deus ex machina personally.
I don't know if he is in that video or not, or ever, personally, but just in general, it's the Ockham's razor approach any time you see something like this. It's a much more direct and clear explanation than the various more convoluted theories people keep throwing around as to why everyone sounds like a methed-out megalomaniac all the time.
I never feel more like the one sober guy at the party than when I go to SF. Even when there's no reason to believe anyone is literally on drugs, it has that vibe every time. It's really unsettling. Uncanny. It starts to get under your skin, too. You start to believe, just a little bit, that everything is possible, that there are no limits, that you can and should remake the world. Just a little bit. I can never take it for more than a week at a time, no matter how beautiful the weather is. It's a relief to get back to the "real" world.
> Look. This is a new golden age of cocaine, because of the big cuts in everything in the US took away the cocaine busting operations in Colombia and Bolivia, because the revolutionaries that previously kept control of it stood down and became a political party and new, profit-driven cartels came up, and because battery technology means that narcosubs and similar drone things work much better than before (and they can be made remote-operated, so the cops can't do shit even when they find one). Wholesale prices have halved or gone down 60% to like, 12k usd / kilo, street prices commensurate. The huge new opportunities created by increased market size have increased competition and made the cartel nature of the cartels decrease. So always think of that when you look at people acting like this and having such megalomaniac goals.
That aside, I think there's something that happens to the human mind (and most people are susceptible) when exposed to certain stratospheric levels of wealth and power (which are basically the same thing). Their thinking becomes ungrounded, uncoupled from reality. The tendency is to shrug off the limitations of logic and rationality and to allow their mind to dabble in ideas of limitless possibility and power because doing so feels good to do. It's a drug and a very seductive thought that one's will could be manifested in the world without compromise - that what's inside could be made real on the outside. That is, after all, what power is. Dario's imagined reality is that he is the savior of the human race, and that's the reality he's currently living in.
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