Personally I would like to protest their influence over the U.S. government and AI policy specifically. I think that’s something a lot of people find immediately sympathetic, even people with different views on AI X-risk than us. It’s also what I’m angry about right now in this moment.
Are you thinking about Trump 2.0′s quasi-ideological enmity towards Anthropic? Do you think a16z is the epicenter of it? I would have said they were allied with Sacks and to some extent Musk in this, but would you say they are the actual HQ and braintrust and financier of accelerationist / “techno-optimist” opposition to: Anthropic, concern about extinction risks, EA-connected AI safety, and so forth?
(btw I should probably include Thiel as part of this coalition, even though Palantir was apparently using Claude—thus Vance told Europe last year that AI could never take over from humanity, Thiel has his own biblical (!) apologetics for accelerationism, and so on)
protest about what exactly?
Man, what haven’t they done?
I mean sure, but a protest should have a clear message
I apologize, I was just joking.
Personally I would like to protest their influence over the U.S. government and AI policy specifically. I think that’s something a lot of people find immediately sympathetic, even people with different views on AI X-risk than us. It’s also what I’m angry about right now in this moment.
Are you thinking about Trump 2.0′s quasi-ideological enmity towards Anthropic? Do you think a16z is the epicenter of it? I would have said they were allied with Sacks and to some extent Musk in this, but would you say they are the actual HQ and braintrust and financier of accelerationist / “techno-optimist” opposition to: Anthropic, concern about extinction risks, EA-connected AI safety, and so forth?
(btw I should probably include Thiel as part of this coalition, even though Palantir was apparently using Claude—thus Vance told Europe last year that AI could never take over from humanity, Thiel has his own biblical (!) apologetics for accelerationism, and so on)