It seems to be a common view of a subgroup that it has encouraged it. Bsky is a good place to find posts from those sorts, you can also find them on reddit. you’ll need to use a fresh, anonymous account in order to for this search to be correct, else you’ll likely be blocked by many people you’re looking for. https://bsky.app/search?q=“ai+2027”—try latest as well as top, you may have to scroll a bit to get a sense of the variety of reactions. it’s slowed to a trickle now, you’d have to scroll way back to near release day to see the main wave of reactions. It’s not really clear to me exactly how common a view it is at the moment, but bsky is certainly a place you can see it more easily, given the site’s reliable hate of anything that claims AI is powerful in any shape or form.
I think it’s been net positive. For example, I know an engineer who is interested in Pause AI specifically because of this essay. I think it also encourages additional funding into capabilities research, given the stakes involved, but this effect is probably smaller.
I hope not, since I and the other authors agree it’s madness and are trying hard to fight against it.
It seems to be a common view of a subgroup that it has encouraged it. Bsky is a good place to find posts from those sorts, you can also find them on reddit. you’ll need to use a fresh, anonymous account in order to for this search to be correct, else you’ll likely be blocked by many people you’re looking for. https://bsky.app/search?q=“ai+2027”—try latest as well as top, you may have to scroll a bit to get a sense of the variety of reactions. it’s slowed to a trickle now, you’d have to scroll way back to near release day to see the main wave of reactions. It’s not really clear to me exactly how common a view it is at the moment, but bsky is certainly a place you can see it more easily, given the site’s reliable hate of anything that claims AI is powerful in any shape or form.
archetypal example: https://bsky.app/profile/emilymbender.bsky.social/post/3ltwemoozvs2u
I think it’s been net positive. For example, I know an engineer who is interested in Pause AI specifically because of this essay. I think it also encourages additional funding into capabilities research, given the stakes involved, but this effect is probably smaller.