And possibly the most important PSA of all: maybe the people who portray every issue as black and white and everyone who disagrees with them as idiots at best and evil at worst are not the best people to voluntarily delegate your authority to in this democracy.
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When ChatGPT debuted, there was a lot of doomerism about AI resulting in human extinction. I was really annoyed at that, because it was just a chat bot. Obviously, no one would let a random word generator take arbitrary independent action without supervision…
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