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1. modeless · 1790190319 · focus · HN ↗

   It's clear Dario believes that the solution to AI's PR problem is to cure cancer. Or invent other revolutionary medical treatments. They're going to heavily promote every step along the way no matter how small or far away from commercialization they are, like this one.

   No doubt that curing cancer would help, but I think the timeline might be a little too long. Even RSI AGI will not be able to get new medical treatments to market instantly. Real world testing takes a long time and is an unavoidable part of the process.

   1. Chance-Device · 1790190938 · focus · HN ↗

      Really now, everything is bad? Trying to cure diseases? Talking about it? That’s bad somehow! Let me sit here on my ass and do nothing instead.

      1. modeless · 1790194080 · focus · HN ↗

         In fact, I think it's great and I'm rooting for them. I just don't think it's likely to improve AI's public image anytime soon.

         1. Chance-Device · 1790195669 · focus · HN ↗

            Glad to hear how you feel about it. However, and this applies more generally than your comment above, what people online often forget is that there is such a thing as both positive and negative reinforcement. If you don’t reinforce positive behaviours as well as denouncing bad ones, then you don’t get good outcomes.

            And reading my own comment back to myself, I realise I do this too, and fail to positively reinforce as much as denounce.

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