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Good people refuse to do bad things

144 points · 147 comments · Brajeshwar

  1. ArcHound · · focus · HN ↗
    Generally, I agree.

    Imagine: you start working at the company with a good will towards them. As you learn more and see more decisions, you slowly realize how bad it is. Now you've already contributed. Then you leave.

    It might be possible to build everything with this goodwill and that's how we'd still end up with a torment nexus even if you immediately drop it.

    What I'm saying is, at one point you have to break the company fully.

    I'm not sure what more we need to wait for, if the claim "10% it ends humanity" is not enough.

    1. seiferteric · · focus · HN ↗
      If it's "10% it ends humanity" and "20% it solves climate change and saves humanity" then is it still bad?
      1. goatlover · · focus · HN ↗
        It's bad that a few people are making such a gamble on behalf of billions. That could work if climate change were literally an asteroid about to strike the Earth and AI was the only thing that could figure out how to alter it's course before then. But it doesn't really work when climate change will unfold as a catastrophe over the next few centuries. Because then it becomes a decision the entire planet should be making over time, not a few tech billionaires and their friends in government.
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