Do you think you would have reacted differently and more positively, if the following text had been inserted at the top?
”Author’s note: This short story is a sort of hate letter to the big AGI companies, and to various (but not all!) of the people working there. It’s a caricature/parody; it is to the AGI companies what Dr. Strangelove was to institutions like RAND and the US Strategic Command. It is uncharitable and exaggerates—but, like Dr. Strangelove, I think it makes some pretty valid points and expresses some pretty valid emotions. I hope that some of the people building AGI are humble enough to read this story and take it as a cautionary tale.”
Had this text been inserted at the top, I probably would have been excited enough about the story to send it to some of my former colleagues at OpenAI and Anthropic.
Do you think you would have reacted differently and more positively, if the following text had been inserted at the top?
”Author’s note: This short story is a sort of hate letter to the big AGI companies, and to various (but not all!) of the people working there. It’s a caricature/parody; it is to the AGI companies what Dr. Strangelove was to institutions like RAND and the US Strategic Command. It is uncharitable and exaggerates—but, like Dr. Strangelove, I think it makes some pretty valid points and expresses some pretty valid emotions. I hope that some of the people building AGI are humble enough to read this story and take it as a cautionary tale.”
Had this text been inserted at the top, I probably would have been excited enough about the story to send it to some of my former colleagues at OpenAI and Anthropic.
Were I to do that, my very soul would wither and die.
Can’t you just say that yourself (not all, caricature, parody, uncharitable, exaggerates, &c.) when sharing it? Death of the author, right?