Data point: I attended the London Haskell meetup today and told a few people I was on sabbatical and hoping to help with AI safety, because it’s clearly the most important thing right now. Reactions ranged from neutral to “oh yeah, obviously”; no one registered to me as surprised or skeptical.
Data point: I gently steered an Uber driver onto AI via AI in medicine a few months back, and he made a passable attempt to doompill me with an explanation of RSI without me ever giving hints that I knew the arguments.
Tangentially related, a Hacker News post on the GHC being too slow to iterate on ai-generated code went popular a month ago. Was this a hot topic at the meetup?
It was mentioned (in the context of ~”now that AI is doing all the coding, is Haskell still what we want to be using?”), but not much more than that in my hearing.
(I’m assuming here that it was the thing I’m thinking of that I saw on the subreddit and discourse.)
Data point: I attended the London Haskell meetup today and told a few people I was on sabbatical and hoping to help with AI safety, because it’s clearly the most important thing right now. Reactions ranged from neutral to “oh yeah, obviously”; no one registered to me as surprised or skeptical.
Data point: I gently steered an Uber driver onto AI via AI in medicine a few months back, and he made a passable attempt to doompill me with an explanation of RSI without me ever giving hints that I knew the arguments.
Data point: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/thXohzXrWCA2EhZCH/mateusz-baginski-s-shortform?commentId=BeCm6eKCtRkhvFEAn
I went into a trendy bookshop in London this morning and they’d moved IABIED to the table at the front.
Counter point: if someone said they worked in astrology, I don’t think most people would indicate their skepticism either. In person is not online.
(But I directionally agree people tend to be more receptive than you expect)
Tangentially related, a Hacker News post on the GHC being too slow to iterate on ai-generated code went popular a month ago. Was this a hot topic at the meetup?
It was mentioned (in the context of ~”now that AI is doing all the coding, is Haskell still what we want to be using?”), but not much more than that in my hearing.
(I’m assuming here that it was the thing I’m thinking of that I saw on the subreddit and discourse.)