Words are not enough. I see them lying deserted on my screen. Scared and tiny. Hiding behind each other. I understand that feeling.Warmest August ever measured. An El Nino that will wrack this planet. Costs estimated in the trillions. And still, somewhere this week, a man with a net worth in the tens of billions used the word 'responsibly' in a sentence about the technology he is racing to build before anyone can regulate it.I look outside my window. People walking down the street, chatting. Cars driving by. It is normal, these days, to lose your mind. Normal to read that the men building AI solemnly, sincerely, and without a trace of irony are promising that the models they are racing to build, in order to make fortunes even bigger than the ones they already have, will not extinguish humanity. They are asking to be trusted on the single largest bet in human history, by the same people who are placing it, for the money, and we are supposed to find that reassuring.Yes. Extinguish...
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