Comment by nothrabannosir
Comment by nothrabannosir 2 days ago
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Comment by nothrabannosir 2 days ago
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Which founder is wrong? Not only the brainwashed here are entrepreneurs
What you (and others in this thread) are also doing is a sort of maximalist dismissal of AI itself as if it is everything that is evil and to be on the right side of things, one must fight against AI.
This might sound a bit ridiculous but this is what I think a lot of people's real positions on AI are.
That's definitely not what I am doing, nor implying, and while you're free to think it, please don't put words in my mouth.
We are basically 100-ϵ% the same. I have no doubt.
Maybe the only difference between us is that I think there is a difference between a description and an interpretation, and you don't :)
In the grand scheme of things, is it even worth mentioning? Probably not! :D :D Why focus on the differences when we can focus on the similarities?
Yet to see anything good come from it, and I’m not talking about machine learning for specific use cases.
And if we look at the players who are the winners in the AI race, do you see anyone particularly good participating?
800 million weekly active users for ChatGPT. My position on things like this is that if enough people use a service, I must defer to their judgement that they benefit from it. To do the contrary would be highly egoistic and suggest that I am somehow more intelligent than all those people and I know more about what they want for themselves.
I could obviously give you examples where LLMs have concrete usecases but that's besides the larger point.
> 1B people in the world smoke. The fact something is wildly popular doesn’t make it good or valuable. Human brains are very easily manipulated, that should be obvious at this point.
I don’t do zero sum games, you can normalize every bad thing that ever happened with that rhetoric. Also, someone benefiting from something doesn’t make it good. Weapons smuggling is also extremely beneficial to the people involved.
This line of thinking made many Germans who thought they're on the right side of history simply by the virtue of joining the crowd, to learn the hard way in 1945.
And today's adapt or die doesn't sound less fascist than in 1930.
Are you going to hire him?
If not, for the purpose of paying his bills, your giving a shit is irrelevant. That’s what I mean.
You mean, when evaluating suppliers, do I push for those who don't use AI?
Yes.
I'm not going to be childish and dunk on you for having to update your priors now, but this is exactly the problem with this speaking in aphorisms and glib dismissals. You don't know anyone here, you speak in authoritative tone for others, and redefine what "matters" and what is worthy of conversation as if this is up to you.
> Don’t write a blog post whining about your morals,
why on earth not?
I wrote a blog post about a toilet brush. Can the man write a blog post about his struggle with morality and a changing market?
This is a YC forum. That guy is giving pretty honest feedback about a business decision in the context of what the market is looking for. The most unkind thing you can do to a founder is tell them they’re right when you see something they might be wrong about.